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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Georgia Newsletter for Wednesday July 31, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Congressman Johnson, Leader Jeffries, Sens. Durbin, Collins, Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Fairness in Criminal Justice System
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release: The Criminal Judicial Administration Act would authorize the U.S. Marshals Service to pay for round-trip travel and subsistence for defendants who cannot afford to pay the costs on their own. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, along with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), U.S. Senate  more

Johnson, Torres, Durbin, Hirono, and Nadler Release GAO Report Constrained by AO Blocking Access to Federal Audit of Sexual Harassment in the Judiciary System
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Members Request Efforts to Prevent and Address Workplace Misconduct; Report Finds Judiciary's system has no performance measures and conducts no evaluations of the efficacy of its workplace misconduct protocols Today, Congressman Hank Johnson, Congresswoman Norma J. Torres, Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Mazie Hirono, and Congressman Jerry Nadler released a Government Accountability Office (GAO  more

Sen. Ossoff Working to Strengthen Georgia's Forestry Industry
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Senator Jon Ossoff is working to strengthen Georgia's forestry industry. Today, Sen. Ossoff launched a push to pass bipartisan legislation that would help Georgia's forestry industry implement their State Forest Action Plan (SFAP) to ensure Georgia's trees and forests remain healthy in the future. The bipartisan Branch Out Implementation Act would extend the bipartisan infrastructure law's provision that mak  more