DULUTH, Georgia, May 10 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: Yesterday, Rep. Lucy McBath (GA-07) and Community Justice Action Fund co-hosted an informational briefing at her Duluth district office spotlighting the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), which she and other Congressional Black Caucus Members championed in Washington. The initiative aims to prevent and reduce gun violence through more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: On Friday, Congressman Rick W. Allen (GA-12) sent a letter to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge renewing calls for immediate action regarding the deteriorating living and building conditions at the Bon Air Apartments in Augusta, Georgia. In the letter, Congressman Allen writes: "A housing issue of this magnitude will have no easy answers, but the Bon Air r more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release and letter: Representatives Lucy McBath (D-GA-07), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.-02), and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) led a bicameral letter of over nearly 90 Congressional colleagues urging the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to implement federal rules to designate who is "engaged in the business" of selling firearms to help close the gun seller background check loophole. The lette more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to help more Georgia students access job training programs. With businesses across the state facing workforce shortages, Sen. Ossoff is championing efforts in the U.S. Senate to the pass the bipartisan JOBS Act to help more students access and afford job training programs. The bill would ensure that students across Georgia enrolled in high-quality short-term more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to pass bipartisan legislation to prosecute sexual predators who target children online. The bipartisan Project Safe Childhood Act, which Sen. Ossoff helped introduce earlier this year with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), would strengthen the DOJ's Project Safe Childhood program and boost resources to combat the online sexual exploitation of children in Georgia and across the countr more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following information for a field hearing entitled "How Can We Improve Health Workforce Diversity and Address Shortages? A Conversation with Historically Black College and University Leaders and Students" at 10 a.m. on May 12, 2023, at Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Building A, Atlanta, Georgia: Witnesses * Valerie Montgomery Rice MD, FACOG, President and CEO, Morehouse School of Medi more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: US Senator Jon Ossoff is working with Democrats and Republicans to help more Georgia students access job training programs that provide access to high-paying jobs and prepare them for a successful future. Senator Ossoff is working to pass the bipartisan Jumpstart Our Businesses by Supporting Students Act of 2023 (JOBS) in the US Senate. The JOBS bill would ensure that Georgia students enrolled in high-quality  more PR