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For Immediate Release |
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Contact: Murat Gokcigdem |
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Phone: (202) 225-8885 |
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March 21, 2008
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CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON RECEIVES A+ FROM SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER ON POVERTY LAW
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Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced that she has received an A+ from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in its Poverty Scorecard 2007. The Shriver Center assigned grades based on 15 House votes covering a wide range of issues directly related to poverty, including housing, health care and education. It assigned A+ grades to only those representatives whom it determined to have voted to fight poverty on each of the 15 measures. All votes were taken during the 2007 calendar year.
"Our nation has too many families struggling to make ends meet," Congresswoman Johnson said. "I have long championed expanding educational opportunities for our youth and creating and funding programs designed to enable people to lift themselves out of poverty. I am proud of my record on the multi-faceted issue of poverty, and I will continue to fight it in the coming year."
Congresswoman Johnson co-sponsored three of the measures examined by the Shriver Center: the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 (H.R. 2), which will raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour over a two-year period; the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007 (H.R. 2895), which established the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund to fund the construction, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing for low-income families; and the Second Chance Act of 2007 (H.R. 1593), which will improve community reentry programs for ex-offenders.
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U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson is the highest-ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and a senior member of the Science Committee. She represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas, which, includes Downtown Dallas, Fair Park, Oak Lawn, Old East Dallas, Pleasant Grove, & South Oak Cliff; all of Balch Springs, DeSoto, Hutchins, Lancaster & Wilmer and parts of Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Ferris, Glenn Heights and Ovilla.
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