Congressman Johnson's Weekly Update

MARIETTA, OH — This is Congressman Johnson's weekly update. You can stay up to date with what's going on in Washington by following him on social media or signing up for his weekly email blast.

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The Swamp Is At It Again

It’s been an interesting few weeks in Washington. Like many Democrat-run cities, Washington, DC is seeing a dramatic surge in violent crime – shootings are happening all over the city, some in broad daylight. After defunding the police last year and witnessing a spike in killings, a surge in police officers leaving the force, and a general increase in lawlessness, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser is now calling for a funding increase for police.

Meanwhile, Speaker Pelosi, from crime-infested San Francisco, announced on Thursday that anyone not wearing a mask in the Capitol and House Office Buildings will be subject to arrest, vaccinated or not.

Rather than staying in Washington to work - on anything to help the American people, be it anti-crime legislation, border security, lowering the skyrocketing prices in the grocery store and at the gas pump…anything - Nancy Pelosi is preparing to close up shop in Congress for a month or so.

Make no mistake, with President Biden and Nancy Pelosi in charge, the Swamp is back in business, and the American people will continue taking a back seat to them.

Make Sense? Ummm…NO

If you are an American traveling home from a high-risk COVID country, you must receive a negative test to re-enter our country.

Yet, the Biden Administration is allowing untested illegal immigrants to enter our country and then provides them with bus tickets to disperse throughout the country...with no accountability. Most have subsequently refused to report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the required window and have simply disappeared into the American interior.

So while schools are being told to mask up students and the CDC does yet another guidance reversal, the Biden welcome mat remains in place for illegal, untested immigrants at our southern border.

Doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Unlocking Our Energy Potential

Did you know that Americans living in New England are forced to rely on foreign sources to meet their natural gas needs rather than America’s own energy resources from the nearby states of Ohio and Pennsylvania?

Radical environmentalists and far-left politicians appear completely fine with other countries, like Russia, having pipelines and sending us their natural gas, but are hell-bent against American energy companies building new pipelines to supply Americans with natural gas or selling our own natural gas internationally.

My question to those folks is-- what’s wrong with American energy companies producing and supplying Americans and the world with the natural gas we need?
My legislation, the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act, would ensure that American natural gas will continue to be exported internationally despite the radical left’s anti-American-energy agenda.

YSU's Excellence Training Center

Earlier this week, the ribbon was cut on the Excellence Training Center at Youngstown State University. It’s hard to sum up in a few sentences how big of a deal this is…but it’s enormous. The $12 million facility is a partnership among YSU, Eastern Gateway Community College, America Makes, the Youngstown Business Incubator, Youngstown City Schools, and the career and technical centers of Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties all designed to further enhance the Valley’s skilled workforce. Students will have opportunities they didn’t have before and access to state-of-the-art tools and equipment, and the center will accelerate research, development, and commercialization of new products for local, private companies.

Lastly, congratulations to the Fairland Dragons softball team, who won the 9 to 11-year-old Little League girls softball state championship! The team from Lawrence County rallied from a three-run deficit in their last at-bat to claim the title. Great job players and coaches!

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This news release was issued by Congressman Bill Johnson's office. Any opinions expressed within are the author's own.

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