On January 20, 2021, I took the oath of office to serve in the US Senate for Georgia.
Every day since then, I have sought to serve our state with excellence, humility, and an unrelenting focus on results.
Here are some of those results:
In my first year, we passed a historic bipartisan infrastructure bill—long overdue and the most significant American infrastructure investment in generations.
This bipartisan infrastructure law – now law – will improve transit, railroads, roads, bridges, seaports and airports across Georgia.
It will make an unprecedented investment in broadband internet access for rural and low-income communities.
It contains provisions I have campaigned for to remove lead pipes from our drinking water systems. A charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is being built in our state. And it’s investing in the resilience of Georgia’s coastline, helping local communities prepare for storm surges, coastal flooding and tropical storms.
The COVID Relief Act, which we passed at the height of the pandemic, provided economic support to families and small businesses, empowered Georgia’s hospitals and health clinics with hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency resources, poured over $4 billion into Georgia’s public schools, and secured life-saving COVID-19 vaccines were free and available to every Georgian.
The Senate passed my bipartisan bills to reduce prison violence, crime and civil rights violations and help communities fight the opioid epidemic. My legislation to assist communities in planning public transit systems passed Congress and became law. And the US House of Representatives passed my bills to boost America’s solar industry and make solar more affordable for families and businesses.
I intervened in an international trade dispute that threatened one of the most significant economic projects in Georgia’s history by brokering a deal between two Korean industrial titans to buy the $2.6 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Commerce, Georgia, and the thousands of Jobs that will manage to save in our state.
And I’ve represented Georgia and our state’s values on the world stage, spearheaded Senate efforts to speed up a ceasefire during last spring’s brutal war in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and asked global automakers for more investment in Georgia. Semiconductors, batteries and clean energy technologies.
I have worked to advance the causes of civil liberties and suffrage by authoring landmark suffrage legislation—the Right to Vote Act—that would constitute the first-ever legal guarantee of voting rights for American citizens. My bill empowers citizens to challenge in court any policy that restricts eligible voters’ access to ballots, and I will continue to fight to ensure that every American voter has equal access to ballots.
I will continue to be a champion for those who serve and have served. I’ve worked to hold private contractors, the Pentagon, and the VA accountable for substandard housing, pollution that threatens the health of military families, and incompetence in the service of Georgia veterans.
I have campaigned for anti-corruption measures, spearheaded efforts to ban stock trading for members of Congress – despite objections from some in my own party – and supported legislation to ban secret money from political campaigns.
In the meantime, I continue to oppose political contributions from lobbyists and from corporate PACs. I don’t work for them or for any political party. I only work for you.
My team and I have provided constituent services to thousands of Georgians — helping veterans secure the benefits they deserve defending our country, helping seniors access Medicare and Social Security, helping small businesses access COVID relief, passport – and visa problems for voters solved and much more. We’re here for you, but we can help.
These are challenging times.
COVID continues to take a terrible toll, disrupting our lives and economies. Our polarized politics and culture threaten to overwhelm our obligations to one another as fellow Americans and people.
But we must and will master these challenges together.
America remains on a path toward ever-fuller realization of our founding ideals as long as we do not allow our political divisions to tear us apart.
It is an honor to represent you as we face the challenges of our time together.
Never hesitate to contact me whenever I can be of any help.
— Senator Jon Ossoff
