Today, Congressman David Scott (GA-13) provided the following statement announcing the postponement of his 17th Annual Jobs Fair, which was scheduled to take place on Friday, March 27, at the Georgia International Convention Center:
“In response to recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the coronavirus, I have decided to cancel our 2020 Jobs Fair.… Read more »
Today, Congressman David Scott (D-GA) was joined by Reps. Steve Stivers (R – OH-15) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4) in introducing H.R. 6012, bipartisan legislation to improve access to financial education for consumers. The Consumer Financial Education and Empowerment Act would create a grant program within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to facilitate financial education… Read more »
Today Congressman David Scott (D-GA) announced his office is accepting submissions for the 18th Annual Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery. High school students who live or attend school in Georgia’s Thirteenth Congressional District are invited to submit artwork for the competition.
In 1982, the Congressional Art Competition was… Read more »
House Agriculture Committee’s Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Chair David Scott and Ranking Member Austin Scott, both of Georgia, issued the following statement Thursday after meeting with financial market regulators from the European Commission (EC) to discuss new amendments to the European Union’s European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR 2.2) that could… Read more »
Today, Congressman David Scott was joined by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-At Large) in introducing H.R. 5794, the Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act of 2020 to expand federal research on endometrial cancer and to increase awareness among patients and health care providers.
The Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act would authorize $500,000 annually from… Read more »
Yesterday, Congressman David Scott introduced H.R. 5748, the Jobs, On-the-Job ‘Earn While You Learn’ Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African Americans Act of 2020. H.R. 5748 encourages the U.S. Department of Labor to work with African American organizations and labor unions to recruit and hire young African Americans in registered apprenticeship programs. Apprenticeship programs… Read more »
By Dana Fowle, FOX 5 Atlanta
Would you like free money to pay your mortgage? Well, read on to see if you qualify. There’s $12 million dollars in help out there, but there’s also a hard deadline to apply for it: March 31st, 2020.
But first, let's go back to 2008, 2009. Banks, Wall Street -- they were getting bail-outs, but families were losing their homes, so in 2010 the US… Read more »
Today Congressman David Scott announced the names of nineteen students from Georgia’s Thirteenth District who have been nominated for admission to the U.S. Air Force Academy, Military Academy at West Point, Naval Academy, or Merchant Marine Academy.
Congressman Scott will present congressional nominations to the students during a special ceremony on Saturday, February 8, 2020, at… Read more »
Program Overview
The USDA/1890 National Scholars Program was established in 1992 as part of the partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the 1890 Land-Grant Universities. The USDA/1890 National Scholars Program is implemented under the USDA Fellows Experience Program (FEP). Scholars accepted into the program will be appointed using the Schedule A(r) authority (5 CFR… Read more »
Today, Congressman David Scott voted to pass H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which will help bring down the cost of prescription drugs and level the playing field for American patients who are paying more for their medicines than patients in other countries. This bill gives Medicare the power to negotiate directly with drug companies and allows private health… Read more »
