WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on July 27, 2022: U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Conference Committee for the jobs and competition bill, voted to pass long-awaited bipartisan legislation to invest in domestic semiconductor manufacturing and make once-in-a-generation investments in STEM, workforce training, and research and development. These federal investments in making  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on July 27, 2022: Representative Lucy McBath (D - GA) and the House Education and Labor Committee voted to pass H.R. 8450, the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act out of committee. Two pieces of McBath's legislation, H.R. 7603 the WIC Healthy Beginning Act, and H.R. 5684 The Bark Act, were included in the overall bill. The WIC Healthy Beginnings Act would encourage competition, reduce costs, and improve quality of  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: The House today passed H.R. 4040, the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act, which included provisions from Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter's (R-GA) Greater Access to Telehealth Act that will expand access to telehealth services. "As a pharmacist who grew up in South Georgia, I know first-hand how difficult access to health care can be for rural Americans," said Rep. Carter. "The expansion of telehealth duri  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release on July 27, 2022: Congressmen Hank Johnson (GA-04) and Jamaal Bowman (NY-16) introduced the Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act) to protect artists from the wrongful use of their lyrics against them in criminal and civil proceedings. The legislation is the first bill of its kind at the federal level. The RAP Act adds a presumption to the Federal Rules of Evidence that would limit the ad  more