Hank Johnson

Yes. I would echo those comments, Congresswoman. You know, Members around here, some folks spend 60, 70 percent of their time, instead of being in committee meetings, they are out making phone calls trying to raise money for their next…

Well, I am going to tell you, Congresswoman Woolsey, that's why I am going to hate to see you leave, and I know you have been here for 20 years. That's a long time to be anywhere. You have certainly been an unrelenting spokesperson for…

Sir, the next day, a statement was released by the gentleman. The statement was to the effect that the entire membership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are card-carrying members of the Communist Party. I just think that it's…

--that control the estate of these rich folks, the firefighters, ambulances that will come pick them up, they don't pay the same tax rates as those people. And 70,000 of the millionaires in the country didn't pay a dime in income tax, and…

Congresswoman, I agree. I also want to point out that to label folks as Communists and Socialists just because they believe in fairness for the working people of this country is not true, and I think that it should be called out because…

Yesterday I spoke about a secret organization called ALEC, also known as the American Legislative Exchange Council. I talked yesterday about how ALEC promotes model legislation written by its corporate members and disseminated to…

All Americans, and I being one of them, hope for justice in the Trayvon Martin case; but I stand here today because we must stop stacking the deck against all innocent Americans. Over 10,000 Americans died a preventable death by gun…

Today I rise in tribute to retiring WSB-TV anchor Monica Kaufman Pearson, who brought Atlanta the evening news for almost four decades. Before I go into that, something is compelling me to extol the virtues of a glass of cold iced tea in…

I certainly don't want to misstate what actually happened, and I think I said that it's my understanding that that meeting was held. That's the information that I received.

Today, Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this harmful bill, H.R. 5, the so-called Protecting Access to Healthcare Act. Now, this bill is premised upon what I would call a story, because that's what my mamma used to tell me. My mamma…

We lead busy lives here, and I don't want to blame my colleagues for being forgetful, nor do I want to accuse anyone of just not caring. But I do have to remind the House that before the health care law, insurance companies were free to…

I strongly urge this committee to follow the president's lead and invest in America.

I urge this committee to make LIHEAP a priority in its budget.

I sincerely believe that the president's budget proposal is a balanced approach that includes short term incentives to spur immediate job growth, and includes long term deficit reduction.

This is supposed to be the people's House, but for 428 days of Republican leadership, the American people have been stuck on the outside looking in. House Tea Party Republicans have locked millions of Americans out of this economy and…

I support H.R. 347, as amended by the Senate, which will assist the Secret Service in performing its protective duties. The bill before us today will help the Secret Service carry out its role in protecting the President, Vice President…

Senate republicans have not been shy about their goal, which is to defeat President Obama, make him a one-term President.

I would suggest, however, that we have a hearing to examine the unprecedented obstruction of the Senate republicans of the confirmation process, and how it is hurting our economic recovery, our efforts at law enforcement, and also the…

Indeed, for the Koch brothers, things go better with the Keystone pipeline.

Thank you, my friend from Georgia. What you've just said is that it's essentially a failure to act, to publish regulations or to promulgate regulations that would lead to the enactment of this CLASS Act, becomes a final agency action. In…

I kind of like the title of this, the--we are--we are looking to protect consumers from discriminatory State taxes on motor vehicle rentals.

I'm reminded of a commercial that has been in heavy rotation lately. It's a Christmas commercial, Santa Claus with a backache and a pain remedy being offered to him after he climbs down the chimney. Y'all are probably familiar with that…

Well done, my good and faithful servants. That must be what the Koch brothers and the corporate Tea Party backers are saying. Their Republican Party in the House has for the whole year been able to stave off any fairness by protecting…

I have a unique position in Congress in that I serve both on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. The House Armed Services Committee is charged with the responsibility of protecting the security of America…

Thank you. That's why the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the FBI, the Director of the CIA, the head of the Justice Department's National Security division, and the Secretary of Defense himself oppose this provision…