Lynn Westmoreland News

Coweta County's new state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant was dedicated Monday.

Turning the tables on Tax Cheat Timmy? Just desserts from the GOP: Congressmen John Carter and Lynn Westmoreland yesterday introduced the Geithner Penalty Waiver Act, requiring that the IRS assess the same penalty against U.S. taxpayers that came forward in the UBS tax fraud investigation as paid by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for failing ...

While most members of Georgia's congressional delegation are prepared to conditionally support the Obama administration's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan, the lawmakers stress efforts in that country must include consistent pressure to root out corruption in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government - including cracking down on his ...

In a phone interview Tuesday from his Washington office, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R.-Ga., threw his conditional support behind President Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan while scolding House Democrats for proposing a "war surtax" to pay for the escalation.

The Air Force will push back plans to tighten physical fitness training rules six months, the Air Force public affairs office announced last week.

Congressman Lynn Westmoreland ate his Thanksgiving dinner in Afghanistan, with members of the Georgia Army National Guard.

By Paul Kane Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told a group of key congressmen Thursday that President Obama was engaged in a "thoughtful process" of deciding on his request for additional troops in the region.

One day into a fact-finding trip through Afghanistan, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss said Thursday he's more convinced than ever that the United States needs to quickly and dramatically boost U.S. forces there.

They help determine how much of our paycheck we take home, how we pay for our retirement, and perhaps soon, how we get our health care.

The commuter rail crash that killed nine people and injured 80 here in June is about to reverberate through Atlanta and much of the rest of the country.

Pick of the day Obama told Afghan President Karzai that "he will be judged by his actions, not words," to which Karzai replied, "Ditto." soundoff@ledger-enquirer.com or call 706-571-8583. Limit comments to 35 words.

According to Rebecca Wodder, president of American Rivers, a recent court ruling has been made that says Atlanta has not been authorized by Congress to withdraw drinking water from Lake Lanier.

"I object. I object. I object ... " Rep. Tom Price, a Roswell Republican, repeated the line over and over, interrupting his Democratic counterparts every time they tried to speak.

Two Democratic members of Georgia's Congressional delegation voted against a major healthcare reform bill late Saturday.

Hundreds of veterans, family members, loved ones and officials of the Office of Veterans Affairs gathered in Newnan Friday as grand opening ceremonies were held for Georgia's newest VA Community-based Outpatient Clinic.

"I'm reading it right now and it has a great plot." That's how Democratic Ohio Congressman Dennis Kuchinich answered Monday when I asked him if he'd read his party's nearly 2,000 page healthcare reform bill that could hit the U.S. House floor for debate by the end of the week.

Congress' "spare the rod, spoil the child" routine with banks needs to stop. The Troubled Asset Relief Program may have bailed out the banking sector, but it has failed the American taxpayer.

Just because you can't or won't prove that you've created a charitable foundation, just because you've been fined $25,000 for failing to properly register that charity - " none of that deprives you of bragging rights.

Atlanta's mayoral candidates spar in the last debate before election day; only one Morehouse student remains in the hospital after a weekend bus wreck; Michael Jackson's movie dominates the box office and extends its stay in theaters.

Foreclosures in the metro-Atlanta area and bank failures throughout Georgia were the focus of a congressional field hearing at the state Capitol.