Ironton Tribune By Heath Harrison Published March 31, 2016 ROME TOWNSHIP — Seniors at the Brickhouse Cardio Club in Rome Township had a special visitor to their class on Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, visited the exercise center to take part in a workout session with the SilverSneakers fitness class. Led by Brickhouse owner and instructor Angie George, Johnson and about 25 seniors started off with a march in place, before doing stretches, working with weights, chair exercises, exerci...
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Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) announced today that he was selected as a member of the bipartisan Encryption Working Group, which was formed by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Portsmouth Daily Times By Frank Lewis Published March 25, 2016 Most of us have watched at least a couple of episodes of “Undercover Boss,” on TV. The owner of a company visits a location in company and disguised as an entry-level employee, learns the actual ins and outs of his company. On Wednesday, if you happen to notice a new employee at the Patriot Travel Center, located at 109 Ohio 522 in Wheelersburg, it just might be U.S. Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) who represents Ohio’s Sixth D...
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Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) issued the following statement in response to the admission by the Department of Defense at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that detainees released from Guantanamo Bay have killed Americans:
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Jackson County Daily By Jeremiah Shaver Published March 23, 2016 U.S. Congressman Bill Johnson (R) was in Jackson earlier this month for an Economic Development Roundtable with business and community leaders. On Wednesday, March 9, Johnson visited the Markay Cultural Arts Center, located at 269 East Main Street in Jackson, for the roundtable discussion. Johnson led a discussion on creating jobs and growing the economy in Jackson County and the surrounding region. Business leaders from throughout...
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Politico By Alex Guillen Published March 23, 2016 Rep. Bill Johnson this morning suggested withholding funding from the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement over its work developing the stream rule. "If OSMRE doesn't start complying with the law, I'm going to be a strong advocate to make sure that the authorizing committee and the appropriations committee withhold funding to OSMRE until they do decide to comply with the will of the people - not the will of t...
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Steubenville Herald-Star By Paul Giannamore Published March, 16, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, was able to meet with his district delegation from the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's president's trip to the Capitol briefly Tuesday afternoon and stressed the potential difficulties in the federal budget this election year. The farm group had asked Johnson about the preservation of crop loss insurance and its relation to the farm bill. "The issue is whether or not we get ...
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WJER Published March 12, 2016 NEW PHILADELPHIA - One of Tuscarawas County’s federal lawmakers is getting to know his constituents and learning about their wants and needs. 6th district Congressman Bill Johnson served lunch to veterans Thursday at the New Philadelphia VFW. Johnson, who is also a veteran, says he enjoys the exchange of information and uses the input as he legislates in Washington. VFW Post Commander Tom Burke says he and other veterans used the congressman’s visit to promote two b...
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Jackson Telegram By Phillip Buffington Published March 11, 2016 U.S. Congressman Bill Johnson, representing Ohio's 6th District, was in Jackson County Wednesday to speak to students in Oak Hill, and to address economic development issues with area businessmen and women. In his first stop in the county, Congressman Johnson, along with his mother Lucy, stopped by Oak Hill Elementary to have a discussion with a group of fifth graders regarding how the country's government operates, as well as his d...
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