WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: This week, Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) and Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) introduced a resolution commemorating National Nonviolence Week, which occurs annually during the first week of October. The announcement comes on the same day the Norwegian Nobel Committee named the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. Congresswoman Williams and Congressman Ryan introduced a similar resolution in 2021 duri  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05), and Representatives Brad Schneider (IL-10), Brenda L. Lawrence (MI-14), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), and Kathy Manning (NC-06) introduced a resolution to censure Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene following her social media posts correlating President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler. Despite her apology, on September 1, 2022, Rep. Greene posted a tweet correlating   more

SAVANNAH, Georgia, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2022: Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) today announced the "Pulling Back the Curtains on PBMs" report, an initiative to educate Members of Congress and the public on the role pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the pharmaceutical industry's middlemen, play in driving up costs for medications, delaying necessary treatments for patients, and robbing hope from their loved ones. This initiative   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on Sept. 20, 2022, entitled "Uncounted Deaths in, America's Prisons and Jails: How the Department of Justice Failed to Implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act": * * * The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will come to order. The Subcommittee continues our bipartisan work invest  more