115th Congress
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Judiciary Committee, and while Nielsen continued to deny the existence of the family separation policy that Trump ended under tremendous public pressure, she did generously allow that "illegal immigrants are humans."
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County Officer Edgar Flores paid the ultimate price when he was shot and killed in the line of duty. Today, the community honored his sacrifice, one day after he would have turned 25.
Congressman asks hard-hitting questions on family separation, administration's failure to properly track the children and reunite them with their families
U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Lithonia, stressed the popularity of the law's protections as a reason Democrats won back control of the House.
"This 2018 campaign, which yielded Democrats 40 more seats, was premised upon in large part protecting and improving the protections of the Affordable Care Act, and I expect that's what the House of Representatives under Democratic leadership is pass legislation to do just that," he said. He called the decision "a fit of judicial activism."
WASHINGTON —Some of Georgia's top Republican elected officials, agricultural organizations and business development groups cheered the Trump administration's move Tuesday to roll back a sweeping Obama-era clean water regulation aimed at protecting tributaries to navigable waterways.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) followed up on Jordan's line of questioning about whether Google had paid for such efforts. Pichai categorically denied that it provides any partisan election features.
Another issue likely to be top of mind for Democrats: Tougher mandates for companies to notify consumers when they are breached. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) asked Pichai how Americans can trust their personally identifiable information is safe with Google -- which announced on Monday it had a security bug on its Google service that may have affected the personal information of about 52 million people.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet (IP), today questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the importance of consumers' digital privacy in the online ecosystem. The following is a transcript of his exchange in Judiciary Committee hearing: "Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use, and Filtering Practices."
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"In the wake of ongoing scandals involving Americans' digital privacy, there is a growing sentiment among Americans that our federal laws need to reflect that we have fully entered the era of big data," says Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), who proposed two data protection bills following the Cambridge Analytica uproar.