Ossoff pitches COVID relief plan as Georgia ramps up vaccine output

Georgia Recorder // Ross Williams Sen. Jon Ossoff stopped by Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital Thursday to promote the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill working its way through Congress and pitch a provision within it to encourage states like Georgia to expand Medicaid coverage to more of its citizens. “Medicaid expansion will help more Georgia families afford health care,” Ossoff told

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Sen. Jon Ossoff urges colleagues to ‘move swiftly’ and pass Covid-19 legislation

11Alive Atlanta ATLANTA — Sen. Jon Ossoff urged colleagues to “move swiftly” and pass the COVID-19 legislation during a media briefing on Thursday morning at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Georgia’s newly-elected senator discussed the COVID-19 response after touring the hospital. He specifically discussed his and Senator Warnock’s “efforts in the Senate to secure more support for hospitals across the

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Ossoff pledges to advance COVID relief bill while touring Atlanta facilities

FOX5 Atlanta // Brooke Zauner ATLANTA – Newly-elected U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) spent Thursday touring facilities in Atlanta at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ossoff first toured Grady Memorial Hospital and then toured the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Ossoff said he is urging his colleagues in the U.S. Senate and House to pass the COVID-19 relief bill as quickly as possible. “I am urging

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Jon Ossoff to chair Senate subcommittee on investigations

AJC // Tia Mitchell WASHINGTON — Georgia’s Jon Ossoff has been appointed to lead the Senate subcommittee that investigates crime and corruption within the U.S. government and its agencies, plus just about any aspect of federal policy. Recent probes by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations covered topics such as organized crime, terrorism, the SARS outbreak, security of the

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