WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, issued the following news release and letter: Congressman Rick W. Allen (GA-12) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, criticizing the Department's intent to propose a rule which would reclassify independent contractors as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In the letter, Congressman Allen argued this change would "dismantle the flexibilities that independent contractors want," and urged Secretary Walsh to   more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on June 29, 2022: * * * Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) issued the following statement in response to the Safer Communities Act. "For weeks, lawmakers either overcome by emotion or fixated on disarming our nation have weaponized tragedies in order to advance illogical, ineffective, and illegal gun-grabbing proposals. Yet instead of standing strong in the fight to protect Americans' Second Amendment freedom  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release on June 29, 2022: Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) voted for new bipartisan legislation to lower the cost of food and fuel: another step forward in House Democrats' fight against inflation. The Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act will help bring down prices for Georgians in the grocery aisle and at the gas pump by giving American farmers and ranchers the support they need to thrive. "Today, I proudl  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, issued the following news release and letter: On Monday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) asked the VA to hold an employee accountable for brutally beating and choking a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran at Fort McPherson VA Clinic in Atlanta, Georgia; the victim suffered numerous injuries and was hospitalized for three days due to a brain bleed from the assault. The assailant, Lawrence F. Gaillard, Jr. is a VA patient advocate who was arrested and charged with a   more