Hank Johnson

I am personally sensitive to the visually impaired, and I certainly appreciate you all coming to express your views.

It will be like the gatekeeper. Why should Google be the only entity permitted to sell access to orphan works?

As Chairman of the Courts and Competition Policy Subcommittee, I am also particularly sensitive to the antitrust implications of the settlement.

the taxpayers have spent--and some would say invested--$60 billion in bailout money for the automobile manufacturers.

Seems to be something that they are using quite frequently to try to defeat things like health care and education, energy.

To the contrary, despite their claims on the radio that they have never been invited, that there have been no opportunities for them to discuss this issue, it is not true.

I want to first begin by thanking the Chairman for hosting this town hall meeting, actually hosting it after calling it.

One of our indelible rights is the right to a jury trial. Guaranteed by the United States Constitution, this right has been gradually eroded through forced arbitration agreements.

forced arbitration has been a concern of mine for some time; and I firmly believe that Congress must act in this instance to protect consumers.

It is great to be in the time where we can deal with this particular issue and other similar issues, especially given the economic crisis that has, in part, been caused by laissez-faire attitudes.

Even former President Ronald Reagan condemned retail price fixing because it stifles competition, and adds to inflation.

This Congress has consistently stated over almost the past 100 years that, if there is no benefit to consumers, then allowing manufacturers to set retail pricing is disfavored.

I can think of no man who deserves these accolades who is greater than the late Judge Griffin Bell, and I look forward to this measure passing.

Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago today, on February 10, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., arrived in Bombay, India, to study the principles of nonviolence developed and used so skillfully by Mahatma Gandhi, which Dr. King himself employed to…

Mr. Speaker, today we honor the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, for a century of unwavering commitment to…

Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I'm honored to join my friend and colleague, Representative John Lewis, himself a legendary civil rights leader, in strongly supporting H. Res. 134 and in carrying a message of hope to an upcoming trip to India…

Mr. Speaker, the second elder justice bill we are considering today is the Elder Abuse Victims Act of 2009. The House passed this bill on suspension last September by a vote of 387-28, but the Senate did not have time to consider it before…

Mr. Speaker, this is the third elder justice bill that we present to date. Like the previous two elder justice bills, this bill also passed the House last September on suspension but was not able to be considered by the Senate before…

I think we have got to be broad-minded as we look for solutions to this difficulty that we face that was caused by the conservative movement, the trickled-down economic theories, a failed policy, miserably, a miserably failed policy. And…

A tremendous analogy. And so we have seen what happened in the House of Representatives. The Senate is supposed to be a more thoughtful and deliberative body. But isn't that the place where all of the earmarks come from? And it is politics…

Yes. Thank you. So we've got a group of folks who were right here as you say, Congressman Ellison, they were right here in this very Chamber, and they had the leadership up until 2006; and they aided and abetted this country's decline and…

Okay. Before I answer that, Congressman, I do want to talk about--you mentioned something very interesting and that is the lack of regulation in the financial markets. Oil futures contracts were taken out of the regulatory process by the…

Yes. I would say one of the things would be the extension of the unemployment benefits. And another thing would be the increase in public assistance money, food stamps, and the like that serve as a safety net. It is just obscene in this…

Thank you, Congressman. That whole process of trying to get bipartisan support here in the House I guess was probably doomed to failure from the outset because there was no good-faith being exercised by my friends on the other side. It was…

We have cut down on so many medical errors. I know that you being a doctor, you could probably relate to this. The penmanship of the average doctor is quite, some say, arrogant. You can't understand what is written. So electronic medical…