S. 4359 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two 

An Act 

To designate the regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in metropolitan 

Atlanta as the ‘‘Senator Johnny Isakson Department of Veterans Affairs Atlanta 

Regional Office’’, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Senator Johnny Isakson VA 

Regional Office Act of 2022’’. 

SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

Congress finds the following: 

(1) John Hardy Isakson, known as ‘‘Johnny’’, was born 

December 28, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Julia Isakson and 

Edwin Andrew Isakson. 

(2) Johnny Isakson graduated from the University of 

Georgia in 1966 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. 

(3) In 1966, Johnny Isakson enlisted in the Georgia Air 

National Guard, serving until 1972 and attaining the rank 

of Staff Sergeant. 

(4) Johnny Isakson gained success in private business, 

serving for 22 years as a real estate executive and growing 

his business into one of the largest of its kind in both Georgia 

and in the United States. 

(5) Johnny Isakson was elected to the Georgia General 

Assembly in 1976, serving in the State House of Representatives until 1990. 

(6) Johnny Isakson was elected to the Georgia State Senate 

in 1992, serving until 1996. 

(7) In 1996, Governor Zell Miller appointed Johnny Isakson 

to be Chairman of the Georgia State Board of Education. 

(8) Johnny Isakson was elected to represent the 6th District 

of Georgia in the United States House of Representatives in 

1999, and served until 2005. 

(9) During his time in the House of Representatives, Johnny 

Isakson, as a member of the Committee on Education and 

Labor of the House of Representatives, worked to improve 

American education, and was a key advocate for the bipartisan 

education reforms that became the No Child Left Behind Act 

of 2001 (Public Law 107–110). 

(10) Johnny Isakson was elected to the United States 

Senate in 2004, serving until December 31, 2019. 
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(11) During his time in the Senate, Johnny Isakson was 

an exemplar of courtesy, dignity, and kindness, beloved and 

respected by colleagues regardless of party. 

(12) Johnny Isakson, during the 111th Congress, demonstrated a bipartisan yearning for peace, and crossed party 

lines to support the ratification of the 2010 Strategic Arms 

Reduction Treaty between the United States and the Russian 

Federation, also known as New START. 

(13) During the 114th, 115th, and 116th Congresses, 

Johnny Isakson served as Chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, a position with which he tirelessly 

championed reform to improve the benefits and quality of 

service for our nation’s military veterans. 

(14) During the 114th, 115th, and 116th Congresses, 

Johnny Isakson served as Chairman of the Select Committee 

on Ethics of the Senate. 

(15) The late Congressman John Lewis once described 

Johnny Isakson as ‘‘A man who has strong belief but also 

willing to work with others to get things done.’’. 

(16) On December 19, 2021, Johnny Isakson passed away, 

but his legacy of character and goodwill will endure as an 

example to all who serve, or will serve, in the United States 

Senate. 

SEC. 3. SENATOR JOHNNY ISAKSON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS ATLANTA REGIONAL OFFICE. 

(a) DESIGNATION.—The Department of Veterans Affairs Atlanta 

Regional Office in Georgia shall, after the date of the enactment 

of this Act, be known and designated as the ‘‘Senator Johnny 

Isakson Department of Veterans Affairs Atlanta Regional Office’’ 

or the ‘‘Isakson VA Atlanta Regional Office’’. 

(b) REFERENCE.—Any reference in a law, regulation, map, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Regional 

Office referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference 

to the Senator Johnny Isakson Department of Veterans Affairs 

Atlanta Regional Office. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.