WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2022: U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff's bipartisan bill to help Georgia's veterans access their service benefits today passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Sen. Ossoff's bipartisan bill will help clear the backlog of veterans' records requests necessary to access the service benefits they earned. "Too many Georgia veterans are having to wait too long to access their service records. It can impact thei  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Setting the Table: Promoting Healthy and Affordable Food for Older Americans" at 10 a.m. on Dec. 15, 2022, at 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Witnesses * Jeremy Everett, Founder and Executive Director, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, Waco, TX * Dr. Temitope Walker, Senior Hunger Nutrition Coordinator, Georgia Department of Human Services, Atlanta, GA * Tom Gil  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on Dec. 9, 2022: U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock's (D-GA) bipartisan bill to rename the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center as the "Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center" in honor of the late Senator Max Cleland of Georgia was signed into law. The bill had previously passed the House, 356-62 and passed the Senate unanimously in July. Senator Warnock has b  more