Sam Johnson News

Texas Needs Healthcare Reform! A recent Washington Post article shows that Texas seems to have the greatest proportion of Congressional districts with more than 25% of people uninsured.

The informational program is free and open to the public. There will be free blood pressure screenings.

URBANA – U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, is the only Republican member of the U.S. House to vote against both the Democratic health care bill that passed Saturday and a GOP-sponsored amendment that fell far short.

Late Saturday, after a rare weekend session--which included a trip by President Obama to the Capitol--the House narrowly approved a sweeping, historic health care measure.

WASHINGTON : President Barack Obama, fighting for his top domestic priority, urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to "vote yes" Saturday on the broadest US healthcare overhaul in a half-century. "This is our moment to deliver.

Please immediately call and ask your U.S. representative, Rep. Sam Johnson, to SUPPORT the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the health care bill, HR 3962.

Texas House members are mounting a late effort to delay new limits on physician-owned hospitals, putting them at odds with Democratic leaders who think the facilities drive up health care costs.

Today U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson congratulated McKinney resident Rebecca Noah Poynter after legislation helping military spouses she created and championed passed both Chambers of Congress; the measure now goes to the President for his signature to become law.

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson announced that the Texas Mezzanine Fund and the Dallas Development Fund will receive a total of $80,000,000 in tax credits from the U.S. Department of Treasury.

By MARIA RECIO, ANNA M. TINSLEY, DAVE MONTGOMERY and AMAN BATHEJA Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, minced no words over why House Democrats rejected recommending prosecutor Sarah Saldana for U.S. attorney for the Northern District: 'She was extremely pushy.'In an interview with the Star-Telegram , Johnson said Saldana, an assistant U.S.

As President Barack Obama's staff and Texas A&M University make final preparations for Friday's visit, protesters are also finalizing their plans.

14 to mark the start of construction of a new runway. State, county and city leaders will join the MADC to break ground on the new runway project at a ceremony starting at 4 p.m. at the airport.

Friday night in Dallas the Congressional Medal of Honor Society presented U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson the National Patriot Award, the Society's highest civilian award.

By MARIA RECIO, ANNA M. TINSLEY, DAVE MONTGOMERY and AMAN BATHEJA The Rev. Vaughn Baker, senior pastor of the Christ United Methodist Church in Fort Worth, gave the opening prayer Wednesday in the U.S. House.

Not only did the four doctors who flanked President Obama at his White House press event on Monday recommend his plan, three of them donated to his presidential campaign.

An Air Force vet and former prisoner of war in Vietnam who is now a member of Congress is the recipient of Medal of Honor Society's highest civilian award.

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society will award Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Plano, the National Patriot Award next weekend in Dallas, recognizing his lifetime spent serving his country, first as a 29-year Air Force veteran and former prisoner of war, then as a long-serving U.S. congressman.

Republican officials wanted the pilot who safely landed a disabled jetliner in New York's Hudson River to run for Congress in California, The Hill reports.

The Medal of Honor Society says it will present its highest civilian award to Rep.

Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who safely landed a damaged commercial airplane on the Hudson river in January, rebuffed overtures from Republicans who wanted him to run for Congress, the Hill reports .