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Johnny Isakson: 2-year budget would prevent this mess
WASHINGTON -- On Shutdown Day 7, Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson took to the Senate floor (video here) to pitch his bill for a two-year-budget as a way to avoid this kind of morass. Contained within Isakson's paean to "regular order" -- the long-forgotten method by which Congress passed a ...
Your daily jolt: Jimmy Carter's grandson tests waters for a '14 run for governor
Gov. Nathan Deal may have more than a GOP primary challenge on his hands next year. We’re told that state Sen. Jason Carter, a Decatur Democrat and grandson of the former president, has commissioned a poll to "test the political environment, given recent events," for a 2014 run for governor. ...
Georgia delegation’s partisan split even extends to furloughs
The size of the pummeling brought by the government shutdown on Georgia congressional offices depends, like just about everything else around here, on their political affiliation. Georgia Republican U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss have gone from 30 staffers to five or six. Calls to Chambliss’ office get a ...
Debt ceiling hike a tough call for Senate hopefuls
It’s the stuff ominous political television ads are made of: “Congressman X voted to increase the debt to $17.8 trillion.” In less than two weeks, the federal government — shutdown or no — is set to exhaust its congressional authority to borrow money. A vote to increase the debt ceiling ...
Car chase runs from White House to Capitol, ends in woman’s death
A harrowing car chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol ended when a woman was shot and killed by police officers Thursday, causing lockdowns at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and heightening tensions in a city hit in recent weeks by a mass shooting and partial government shutdown. ...
AJC reporter at Capitol, hears shots fired
Daniel Malloy is The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s congressional correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He was at the U.S. Capitol when shots were fired. Below is his account. Around 2:15-2:20 p.m. I was interviewing U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Lawrenceville next to the steps in front of the House of Representatives. We heard ...
Your daily jolt: Phil Gingrey bows out of Obamacare – and, perhaps, into Medicare
One of the oddities of a federal shutdown is that official lines of congressional communication disappear, or are severely restricted. If a constituent should call to register an opinion, for or against, on the shutdown, there’s often no one to pick up the telephone. The same goes for email. Some ...
Shutdown could drag on as Congress merges it with debt ceiling fight
The arrival of a partial federal government shutdown Tuesday did not move the partisan battle lines drawn around the new health care law, as Congress appeared ready to merge this fight with one two weeks away over the federal borrowing limit.In a Capitol depopulated of most staff and tourists, Democrats ...
Florida asks Supreme Court to send more Chattahoochee water downstream
Florida, as promised, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to order Georgia to let more Chattahoochee River water flow into the Panhandle to keep the state’s oyster industry afloat. Gov. Rick Scott, sidestepping the traditional, up-through-the-courts legal process, requested that the justices ultimately decide the thorny and protracted interstate ...
Shutdown arrives; standoff continues
The arrival Tuesday of a partial federal government shutdown brought no movement toward a deal on the funding impasse, as Congressional Republicans sought to merge this fight with one two weeks away over the federal borrowing limit. Shortly after midnight, House Republicans appointed eight members – including Rep. Tom Graves, ...
Florida files water lawsuit against Georgia in U.S. Supreme Court
Florida formally took its water dispute with Georgia to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi filed suit seeking injunctive relief against Georgia’s upstream water use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins, accusing Georgia of taking too much water for Metro Atlanta at the ...
Your (giant) daily jolt: Tom Graves named a post-shutdown negotiator
As the government shutdown arrived, House Speaker John Boehner appointed eight members of a conference committee to work out a short-term spending bill with the Senate. Among them is Rep. Tom Graves, the Republican from Ranger who has led the “defund Obamacare” fight. Boehner’s move is a sign that the ...
House, Senate don’t yield
Congress did not resolve its unrelenting dispute over the 2010 health care law Monday, leading to a partial shutdown of the federal government. House Republicans put forth plans to pull apart the law known as Obamacare, with Senate Democrats swiftly rejecting them. Enrollment begins today in the law’s state-based health ...
Shutdown a-comin', but troops will be paid
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate today cast aside a House-passed spending bill that included a one-year delay of the new health care law, and the House geared up for another broadside against the law tonight -- delaying its mandate that everyone buy health insurance. In short, we're all but guaranteed ...
What a federal shutdown will — and won’t — mean for Georgia
If the federal government partially shuts down at midnight Tuesday, Tom Scott will be forced to stay home on furlough or come into work unsure when his next paycheck will arrive. “We’re not too happy about it,” said Scott, an engineer technician at Robins Air Force Base. “We are always ...
David Scott to GOP: 'The people elected President Obama -- and you hate that'
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives has sent a stopgap spending bill to the Senate, attaching a one-year delay of Obamacare and a repeal of the law's tax on medical devices. The House version of "Saturday Night Live" wrapped up just after midnight and included a unanimous vote to ...
House GOP set to delay health law as condition to avoid shutdown
Refusing to budge in their assault on the new health care law, U.S. House Republicans were poised late Saturday to delay much of the law for a year as a condition to keep the government running, with a partial shutdown looking ever more likely.Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama have ...
Chambliss would refine, not rip up, surveillance law
Saxby Chambliss thinks America’s surveillance laws are sound and the agencies are following them well. But Georgia’s senior senator will move a bill this week to beef up privacy and reporting standards in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. You can thank Edward Snowden. The infamous leaker of how the National ...
Tom Graves rallying conservatives behind one-year Obamacare delay
Updated 5:30 p.m. WASHINGTON -- With the continuing resolution ball back in the House's court, where leaders lack any clear strategy, Rep. Tom Graves of Ranger is drumming up conservative backing for his own amendment that would delay Obamacare for one year. The amendment has yielded 61 co-sponsors so far, ...
Your Daily Jolt: Tune in for the shutdown countdown
This week is turning CSPAN-2 into must-see TV. In honor of today's binge-watching culture, we had a 21-hour Ted Cruz marathon on the Senate floor the other day, with a side of Green Eggs and Ham. And Thursday afternoon, in honor of the proliferation of debate shows, Cruz battled Tennessee ...
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