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WASHINGTON, D.C. House Republican Leader John Boehner today released a new YouTube video targeting the failure of Washington Democrats trillion-dollar stimulus bill and asking where are the jobs? The tongue-in-cheek web video, inspired by a classic 1984 TV commercial by now-Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell , features a job-sniffing GOP ...

The constitution doesn't require much participation from the American people. It protects their rights -- free speech, to bear arms, a fair trial, etc - " but it doesn't even make voting mandatory.

Happy Thursday! At some point last month, Rep. Michele Bachmann said she would refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household on her Census questionnaire .

On the day the June jobs report showed the U.S. labor market shedding 467,000 jobs, House Republicans released a tongue-in-cheek Web video featuring a bloodhound named "Ellie Mae" sniffing out stimulus jobs.

When Republicans try to make Rep. Michele Bachmann reverse her cries of conspiracy, you know something isn't right.

Our country has lost nearly three million jobs this year and today the Labor Department will release its monthly jobs report for June where analysts expect unemployment to increase once again.

Liberals aren't the only ones grousing about Michele Bachmann's jihad against ACORN.

All of the justices of the Supreme Court agreed last week that parts of the antiquated Voting Rights Act pose significant constitutional problems.

Flip the calendar back to 2008. Aside from the stimulus package, if there was a single measure that split Georgia Republicans last year it was the vote over the $307 billion farm bill.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday morning at Georgia Industries for the Blind in recognition of a multimillion-dollar expansion at its Griffin facility.

When self-proclaimed a oeordinary moma Cindy Fallon decided to organize an April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protest in Peachtree City, she didna t know what to expect.

The U.S Supreme Court sidestepped a direct ruling on the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act on Monday, but sooner or later, the issue is going to come before the court.

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Congressional Luncheon on Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter in Perry.

The Voting Rights Act, the government's chief weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s, survived a Supreme Court challenge Monday in a ruling that nevertheless warned of serious constitutional questions posed by part of the law.

By Kase Wickman House Republicans went old-school Thursday, choosing to display their displeasure with the other side of the aisle through parliamentary procedure instead of outright hostility.

Friday, June 19, 2009 4:05 p.m. FORT BENNING, Ga. - Gen. Colin Powell saluted more than two centuries of American soldiers today, telling a crowd of more than 2,000 people at the grand opening of the National Infantry Museum that "trust is the essence of the infantry." "I am the infantry.

WASHINGTON a ' Furniture importers might have to pay taxes on goods imported from countries with value added tax systems, under a bill before Congress.

The House may have set a record getting people on the record Thursday. Republicans angry over what they regarded as mistreatment by the majority Democrats retaliated by demanding roll call votes 52 times on one bill, a $64 billion spending bill for law enforcement and science programs next year.

Unhappy about the steady increase in the price of gas? Don't blame OPEC, blame the speculators who brazenly manipulate the price of oil while the regulator, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, looks the other way.

These people were booked into the Walker County Detention Center on the following dates.