WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, issued the following statement: * * * House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott of Georgia released the following statement in response to the lack of domestic funding for agriculture in the Ukraine supplemental package: "We have been working closely with the other three corners of the Agriculture Committees to evaluate options as it relates to the impacts of the war in Ukraine, and we will   more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) supported the approval of H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act. This bipartisan bill would establish a presumption that specific diseases prevalent among federal firefighters and other federal first responders are considered work-related, rather than require these frontline defenders to affirmatively demonstrate that the hazardous nature of their  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Georgia, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) released the following statement after voting against H.R. 7691, the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, which ultimately passed the House last night by a vote of 368-57. "As a former Navy combat veteran, I understand the serious nature of preventing military aggression into Ukraine and am deeply concerned that we must do what is necessary to prevent furth  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Congressman Hank Johnson's (GA-04) (bipartisan) bill - H.R. 7647, the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act - was marked up and passed out of the House Judiciary Committee. The bill will require justices of the Supreme Court to adopt and follow a code of ethics, places transparency standards on gifts and travel, codifies recusal standards and requires the court to disclos  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) led 36 of their House and Senate colleagues in calling for the repeal of a Trump-era prohibition on new lease sales for offshore wind energy projects off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in the final text of the bipartisan innovation legislation. Included in the House-passed America COMPETES Act a  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, issued the following joint statement: * * * Democratic Women's Caucus (DWC) Whip Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05), DWC Co-Chairs Congresswomen Jackie Speier (CA-14), Lois Frankel (FL-21), and Brenda Lawrence (MI-14), Vice Chairs Congresswomen Veronica Escobar (TX-16) and Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), and DWC Freshman Representative Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (CA-53), issued the following statement on the Senate vote on the House-passed H.R. 3  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, May 9 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following joint statement: * * * U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) issued the following statement aftervideo emerged of the Delaware State University Women's Lacrosse Team's bus being stopped and searched by law enforcement in Georgia. "The story reported in The Hornet and images captured on video by the Delaware State University women's lacrosse team durin  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on May 11, 2022: Yesterday, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and his staff met with senior leaders from Kia Georgia and Kia America in Washington, D.C. to discuss the company's federal legislative priorities for Georgia. The attendees discussed the Senator's long work to strengthen chip manufacturing in the United States, including his leadership on the competition bill that will help prevent  more