WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, issued the following statement on March 1, 2022: * * * Congressman Rick W. Allen (GA-12) tonight released the following statement after attending President Joe Biden's 2022 State of the Union address before a Joint Session of Congress: "Tonight's address was uninspiring -- the American People need more than pandering. If President Biden has suddenly realized the need to secure our border and support our law enforcement, he should have laid ou  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following statement: * * * Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) gave the following statement in response to President Biden's first State of the Union address. "I attended the State of the Union today because I made a promise to work with President Biden on bipartisan policies. Unfortunately, he used this pivotal moment, with the eyes of the world watching as Putin advances into Ukraine, to monologue about a union that is unrecogn  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: A federal judge struck down portions of the Biden Administration's regulations implementing the bipartisan No Surprises Act. This bill represents a multi-year commitment to increasing the affordability of health care by eliminating surprise medical bills from out-of-network providers. The Biden Administration's implementation of the legislation expressly ignored legislative intent, allowing insurance compa  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Pointing out that a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study in 2016 found over a five-year period, the federal government spent more than $5 billion on advertising but Black-owned businesses received only $51 million, or 1.02 percent of those funds, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to the Biden Administration today seeking answers to this decades-old problem. The let  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Austin Scott, R-Georgia, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Representative Austin Scott (GA-08) today released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address. "President Biden has failed the American people, and his address tonight failed to answer how he plans to rectify his many crises. "Under his administration, American's pocketbooks have taken a major hit with inflation at a 40 year high, our energy independenc  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman David Scott (GA-13), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, released the following statement after President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address: "With the eyes of the nation watching, President Joe Biden celebrated the incredible strides of this administration to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic and outlined a proactive and unifying roadmap of innovative solutions to t  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 2, 2022: U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is leading the charge to protect farmworkers in Georgia from human rights abuses and human trafficking. Today in a letter, Sen. Ossoff called on the Biden Administration to undertake a full review of the H-2A visa program to ensure farmworkers are protected from abuses that result in modern-day slavery. Last year, a Federal indictment and investigation (https://www.ju  more