WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 2, 2021: House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott and several Democratic Members of the Committee issued the following letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai regarding non-tariff trade barriers imposed on agricultural biotechnology products. In the letter, Chairman David Scott and Member more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Rep. Jody Hice, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on Sept. 3, 2021: Congressman Jody Hice (GA-10) led 15 of his Republican colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding he addresses the religious freedom violations occurring in Nigeria. "One of the founding principles our nation was built upon is the ability to practice our faith freely without coercion," said Congressman Hice. "While our Founders engrained this inalienable more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 4 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, released the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled to leave Texas Law SB8 in place. "The Supreme Court's decision to allow Texas's draconian anti-abortion law to go into effect is a profound assault on a woman's fundamental right to choose. Function more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 4 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following statement on Sept. 3, 2021: * * * Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), member of the House Committee on Oversight & Reform, released the following statement Thursday, Sept. 2 after voting in favor of the Committee's portion of the Build Back Better Act, which provides $7 billion for electrifying Postal Services vehicles and $5 billion to electrify Government Services Vehicles (GSA), among many other pri more PR

MARIETTA, Georgia, Sept. 4 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on Sept. 3, 2021: Rep. Lucy McBath (GA-06) announced that the DeKalb County Fire Department will receive a $398,225 regional grant through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. This funding will be used to provide firefighters with improved National Fire Protection Association compliant tools and equipment as well as new state of the art training prog more PR