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July 17, 2012

Congressman: Local groups to help get, keep veterans off the streets

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (GA-04) today announced two Atlanta-based groups will receive more than $1.3 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to fight veterans’ homelessness in 2012-2013.

Action Ministries Inc. of Atlanta will receive $1 million and Decatur Cooperative Ministry Inc., $320,000 to provide financial and emotional support, as well as housing stability, for veterans in the Fourth District and throughout metro Atlanta.


July 12, 2012

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Los prestatarios Afroamericanos e hispanos quienes calificaban para los préstamos y pagaron mayores tasas o tarifas o recibieron incorrectamente préstamos de alto riesgo tienen derecho a indemnización


July 12, 2012

African-American and Hispanic Borrowers Who Qualified for Loans and Were Charged Higher Fees or Rates or Were Improperly Placed into Subprime Loans Are Eligible for Compensation

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today filed the second largest fair lending settlement in the department’s history to resolve allegations that Wells Fargo Bank, the largest residential home mortgage originator in the United States, engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers in its mortgage lending from 2004 through 2009.


July 12, 2012
e-Newsletters

Dear Friends,

I was proud to vote against the 33rd attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act this week.


July 11, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democrat Hank Johnson (GA-04) released the following statement today after he voted against Republicans’ attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, once again:

“In a desperate attempt to appear relevant and appease their discouraged Tea Party base, House Republicans are wasting taxpayers’ time and money with the 31st vote this Congress to ‘repeal’ Obamacare. Luckily for American families, they are powerless to do so.”

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July 11, 2012

Congressmen: ‘Extend coverage to 600,000 uninsured Georgians’


July 5, 2012
e-Newsletters

Rep. Hank Johnson's E-Newsletter for June 21, 2012


July 3, 2012
e-Newsletters

Dear Friends,

Happy Fourth of July! All across our great country and the Fourth Congressional District, folks will be coming together, celebrating our independence and freedom, decked out in their red and white and blue, firing up the grill and having a good time with family.


June 29, 2012
e-Newsletters

Dear Friends,

After more than a century of debate, the American people won a historic victory yesterday when the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act.

Immediately after the law was passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2010, opponents of health care reform mounted legal challenges to repeal that progress.