Hank Johnson

We either have a democracy or we don`t. And if everyone can`t vote in this country, if some can`t vote because of their race, then this is not a true democracy.

If you narrow the path to the ballot box, this casts a dark shadow over a lot of things.

We built this country.

We either have a democracy or we don`t.

Well, I`m going to give you a straight answer. No. And I`m sorry about that.

These folks are trying to kill us right now, as far as our right to vote. They`re trying to kill our democracy.

The Federal Government must implement a comprehensive paid family and medical leave policy and we must do so now.

The cosmos, as Carl Sagan once said, is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

I thank the gentlewoman for leading this Special Order today on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus as we rise together to celebrate the African-American community and to commemorate an unsung holiday known as Juneteenth. Now, I was…

I find it deeply disturbing but not surprising that Justice Scalia would be caught up in a secret, private meeting with legislators.

The actions of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family are blamed justly for fueling the U.S. opioid crisis.

The same family, and Dr. Richard Sackler in particular, who are largely responsible for creating the opioid epidemic are now poised to rake in billions of dollars for a new drug that they say will wean people off of OxyContin.

Since 1999, almost half a million people have died from opioid overdoses in this country.

Just the mere fact of meeting and having a private breakfast is deeply disturbing.

100 years ago this month, hundreds of Black men, women, and children were brutally terrorized, brutalized, and murdered in a massacre in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their homes, businesses, and churches were burned to the…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, today, I rise in support of H. Res. 275, which is legislation introduced by my friend, Congresswoman Judy Chu, which puts the House on record condemning the racist shootings…

Thank you, Mr. Chair, for holding this very important hearing.

I thank Congressman Torres for anchoring this very important Special Order hour today. I also want to extend my deepest condolences to the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and my friend, the Honorable Joyce Beatty, who lost her dear…

I support the Seth Moulton high-speed rail plan and also support the American High-Speed Rail Act.

The right to vote is not a privilege; voting is a fundamental right.

Having been freed from the restrictions of section 5, those same jurisdictions that had historically denied the right to vote to Black Americans immediately sprang into action into resuming their sordid history of passing laws to suppress…

Georgia legislators used Donald Trump's 'big lie' as their justification for passing Senate Bill 202.

when did we get to that point?

Voters should not have to jump through hoops or traverse a cynically complicated obstacle course just to vote.

It was an acknowledgement that we, as a country, have fallen short and we took actions to help those who have been harmed, those who were impacted adversely, no-fault of their own and unwittingly and unknowingly to nuclear fallout.