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February 2, 2015

Congressman Johnson’s video message for Black History Month 2015, click HERE.


January 29, 2015

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventy years ago, countless Jewish people were liberated from concentration camps -- camps with the sole purpose of exterminating an entire people and their culture.


January 28, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Johnson released the following statement after Google announced Tuesday that it will install fiber that will bring fast connections to homes in Atlanta and eight nearby cities, including parts of the Fourth District that he represents. As the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee with jurisdiction over competition and regulatory policy, Rep.


January 27, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Before Republicans suddenly pulled H.R. 399, Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015, this week, the bill had a provision buried on page 78 that would expand the Pentagon’s 1033 Program to our nation’s borders.

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January 22, 2015

Congressman positioned to influence regulatory and competition policy, as well as legislation on bankruptcy and commercial law, interstate commerce and taxation. Johnson also lands coveted slot on Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet


January 21, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Responding to calls that the nation’s grand jury system is broken when police are investigated for the killing of civilians, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) today re-introduced the “Grand Jury Reform Act, H.R. 429.”


January 20, 2015

Congressman announces bill in Hip Hop Caucus event on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) will announce the re-introduction of his Grand Jury Reform Act of 2015.


January 16, 2015

I'm proud to represent Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District – home to DeKalb, Rockdale, Gwinnett and Newton counties and a small, but mighty city immortalized in Dr. King’s legendary “I Have A Dream” speech – “Stone Mountain of Georgia.”

More than a half a century ago, a young preacher called a generation to action and forever changed the course of history.


January 13, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) applauded the swift, unanimous House passage of H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (SAV) Act – bipartisan legislation originally introduced in the 113th Congress, but blocked by a single U.S. Senator – to address the epidemic of suicide among our nation’s veterans.