WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The House Ways and Means Committee issued the following information for a virtual hearing entitled "Nowhere to Live: Profits, Disinvestment, and The American Housing Crisis" at 10 a.m. on July 13, 2022: Witnesses: * Dr. Elora Lee Raymond, Urban Planner and Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design at Georgia Tech * Dr. Akilah Watkins, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Center for Community Progress * Dr. Christo  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Representative Lucy McBath visited the White House to celebrate the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major legislative action on gun violence prevention in almost 30 years. The bill, which included parts of Rep. McBath's "Red Flag" legislation, passed the House and Senate late last month, with the President enacting it into law shortly after. "After my son Jordan was taken from me b  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) announced she will introduce the Youth Voting Rights Act, comprehensive legislation to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment and expand youth access to voting. This legislation is co-sponsored in the House of Representatives by Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.-Del.), Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (IL-04), Ted Lieu (CA-33), Dwight Evans (P  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) joined his Senate colleagues in calling on the Biden administration to continue to protect displaced Venezuelans by extending and re-designating Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In a new letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the senators underscored the Maduro regime's crim  more