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LITHONIA, GA – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs is deploying 20 additional Mobile Vet Centers to increase access to readjustment counseling services for veterans and their families, including one that is coming to Atlanta.
“I’m proud to join President Obama and Secretary Shinseki in announcing this victory for veterans in metro Atlanta,” said Johnson.
“My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks” — Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
You might expect the above statement from the CEO of a Wall Street bank or chairman of a Fortune 500 investment firm. The fact that it came from the chairman of the congressional committee charged with protecting the public interest by regulating the financial services industry is troubling.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) released the following statement today on the end of the Iraq War:
“Today I’m pleased to confirm that the U.S. military mission in Iraq has ended. After 8 years of war, our forces are coming home with honor.
Congressman: Constituents sent us here to safeguard their liberty – I ask my colleagues to think long and hard about this vote
U.S. Representative Hank Johnson, colleagues disturbed by reports of high-level corruption in partner country
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nineteen members of the U.S. Congress today wrote U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging that the United States insist on a full investigation of credible reports that senior Sierra Leonean officials offered permission to conduct illegal and destructive logging operations in exchange for bribes.
Johnson-Heinrich letter urges changes to defense authorization bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-4), U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich (NM-1), and more than 35 colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives tonight sent an urgent letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders and conferees opposing provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would authorize indefinite detention of Americans and tie the hands of domestic law enforcement in terrorism cases.
Bill addresses high-cost drugs: ‘We must keep the promises we made to our seniors’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) today introduced his bipartisan “Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act” (H.R. 3613), which would give seniors on Medicare Part D who rely on ‘specialty tier’ drugs an appeals process when dealing with the high costs of these prescriptions.
With the period of open enrollment for Medicare Part D ending yesterday, seniors are continuing to see their health plans place drugs used to treat chronic illnesses on specialty tiers.
Our right to vote is under attack. Sweeping new laws — including an end to same-day registration and cuts to early voting — could disenfranchise millions of voters in 2012. Read the full article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Congresista: el proyecto de ley nivelara el campo de competencia para pequeñas empresas, empresas locales y empresas cuyos propietarios son minorías
WASHINGTON – Pensando en las pequeñas empresas de Georgia, el congresista Hank Johnson (GA-04) ha presentado hoy "la Ley del 2011 para la imparcialidad y transparencia en contratación."