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For Democrats with sufficient memory, the party's failure on a key legislative vote in President Clinton's first term flickered like a distant shadow over last week's nail-biting House showdown on climate-change legislation.

Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper recently held its Ogeechee Basin Celebration and Annual Membership meeting at Coleman Lake Restaurant near Midville, GA.

Lawmakers here are learning the hard way that trying to apologize for historic injustices isn't as easy as saying "I'm sorry." The Senate found that out two weeks ago when it passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to apologize formally for more than three centuries of enslavement and segregation of African-Americans. Senators thought they'd done ...

Baby boomers may produce new 'entrepreneurship boom' Aging baby boomers aren't headed out to pasture - they're starting new businesses, according to a Kauffman Foundation study that predicts the U.S. may be "on the cusp of an entrepreneurship boom." Over the past decade, Americans between 55 and 64 years old had the highest rate of ...

Six more co-sponsors have joined the effort to push through the Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act recently, according to Kathleen Schmatz, president and CEO of the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association.

Once an election is done, it is hard to undo. That's true in Iran, and it's also true in the United States.

The House of Representatives Friday approved a milestone energy and climate change bill that would curb greenhouse gasses omitted by industry and agriculture.

On Tuesday, with a June 30 deadline only seven days away, Karen Handel begged for spare change.

U.S. Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson, both Democrats from the Atlanta area, are the only two Congress members from Georgia to sign on as co-sponsors to an employment non-discrimination bill that includes protections for gay and transgender people.

Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr. had an interesting comment on the debate over an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would rescind a Bush-era policy classifying the names of attendees at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation .

Forty-six years after delivering the keynote speech during the historic 1963 March on Washington, civil rights movement leader and Georgia Congressman, John Lewis, will keynote the 2009 Davidson County Democratic Party Honors Dinner.

That's true in Iran, and it's also true in the United States. This is why it is important to get the rules by which elections are held right before elections are held.

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, declaring that there was no need at the moment to decide whether that provision was still constitutional in light of the fundamental changes that have swept across the South in recent decades.

The state sales tax is going up. So is the meals tax, taxes on alcohol, satellite TV and possibly hotels.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, lead the Senate Thursday in supporting a congressional resolution that apologizes for the enslavement of African-Americans. The resolution also serves as an apology for overall racial discrimination against black-Americans, including those as Rep.

The House of Representatives set a record Thursday for the most votes in one session, capping what amounted to a strange day on usually buttoned-up Capitol Hill.

Mark Milota is getting an extra 25-dollars a week thanks to President Obama's stimulus plan.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the IRS Monday to stop imposing what they say are excessive penalties on small businesses that use questionable tax shelters.

Supporters of Troy Anthony Davis Thursday urged a re-investigation of his conviction in the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail.

Cohen authors resolution celebrating 30th anniversary of "Black Music Month" Congressman Steve Cohen has authored a bipartisan congressional resolution to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of "Black Music Month," which honors the contributions of African-American artists in shaping America's history and culture.