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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte requesting a full hearing to carefully review the issue of pre-dispute (“forced”) arbitration clauses that appear in millions of consumer contracts – from employment to automobile sales and from nursing-home admission to cell phone service.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Johnson issued the following statement on a media call while discussing The New York Times investigative series “Beware the Fine Print,” a three-part series examining how clauses buried in tens of millions of contracts have deprived Americans of one of their most fundamental constitutional rights: their day in court:

Nursing-home residents stand to lose every cause of action against unscrupulous caregivers unless CMS issues a rule ending pre-dispute (“forced”) arbitration in nursing-home agreements.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and 26 other members of Congress sent a letter calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to issue a strong rule to prohibit forced arbitration in nursing-home agreements.

By Amb. Rachad Bouhlal and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.)

Good friends make good business partners, and nothing could be truer of the U.S.’s – and Georgia’s – strong trade relationship with the Kingdom of Morocco.

Congressman introduces bill to protect traveling public by requiring automatic braking systems

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seeking to make highways around the nation safer for drivers, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) introduced the “Safe Roads Act of 2015” (H.R. 3536).

In April of 2015, five nursing students were killed and three others seriously injured when a tractor-trailer failed to stop and plowed into traffic that had stopped on I-16 in Georgia.