WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Pete Sessions (R-TX) this week introduced the bipartisan Dental and Optometric Care Access (DOC Access) Act to provide fairness in contracts between health care providers and vision and dental insurers, thereby increasing the quality of care for patients and eliminating anti-competitive practices. Current mandates in insurance provider agreemen more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, issued the following statement on March 10, 2023: * * * U.S. Congressman Rick W. Allen (GA-12) voted to pass S. 619, the COVID-19 Origin Act. This bill would require the Biden administration to declassify any information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19. Upon the bill's passage, Congressman Allen made the following statement: "For the past three years, Washington Democrats and th more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Georgia, issued the following statement on March 10, 2023: * * * Representative Andrew Clyde (GA-09) released the following statement after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) confirmed efforts to rename Lake Lanier and Buford Dam are currently paused: "Less than an hour after my phone call this afternoon with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the USACE announced that it has halted its severely misguided proposal to rename Lake Lanier and Bufo more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 (TNSper) -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 10, 2023: Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced today that he has hired Marcus Garza as his new chief of staff. Garza replaces Scott Goldstein, who accepted a position within the Biden Administration. "I'm very pleased Marcus is joining my team as my chief of staff," said Johnson. "As a former staffer, legislative director and chief of staff on Capitol Hill previously,  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following statement on March 10, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) issued the following statement regarding President Biden's Fiscal Year (FY) '24 Budget Request. "I've often said that when lawmakers center the people, we have a better chance of getting the public policy right. Making health care and medication more affordable, reinstating a historic tax cut for working families, and providing robust more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) reintroduced legislation to formally authorize the United State Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Detector Dog Training Center in Newnan, Georgia. The center trains the Beagle Brigade, dogs trained by the USDA to detect foreign pests and diseases that threaten the domestic agriculture industry. While the training center has  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 10, 2023: U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and John Thune (R-SD) introduced the Promoting Precision Agriculture Act. The bill would create a federal working group to establish interconnectivity standards to better communicate and share data. Precision agriculture includes the use of devices like robotics, sensors, monitors, drones, etc. to help growers increase efficiency, potenti more PR