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Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Wednesday that Tennessee wouldn't have met General Motors' cash requirements to build a small car at its Spring Hill plant even if the state's finances were in better shape.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said Thursday that the appropriations bill he co-authored has been approved by the Appropriations Committee, with a number of state projects funded.

A new Republican group is eyeing Tennessee's growing number of Latino voters, attempting to organize them in time for the 2010 gubernatorial election.

General Motors has officially announced it has chosen its plant in Orion Township, Michigan to build its new small car.

The redistribution of your tax dollars to others, including Corporate America, isn't something you can figure out no matter how hard you try.

Critics are saying that Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., cannot handle his role in financial regulatory reform while he sits in for ailing Sen.

Below are reactions from Tennessee government officials on General Motor's decision to produce its news sub-compact car at a plant in Michigan rather than at the Spring Hill facility.

More filibustering fun from the U.S. Senate! The Senate has voted to invoke cloture on the nomination of Harold H. Koh to be Legal Counsel of the State Department in a 65-31 vote today.

Senator Corker said, 'This announcement is really the nexus of what we've tried to create in Tennessee: good paying jobs that move our state and country ahead and help us become more energy secure.

Sen. Bob Corker said Nissan's announcement Tuesday that it will make electric vehicles at its Smyrna, Tennessee plant means 1,300 jobs.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., met today with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Corker and Sotoymayor misconnected last week when Sotomayor was 10 minutes late for her meeting with Corker and the senator headed to his next meeting.

Sen. John Ensign apologized to his Republican Senate colleagues Tuesday after revealing last week that he had an affair with a campaign staffer and resigning from the GOP leadership.

The federal government's ownership in General Motors Corp. and other bailed out companies would be supervised by a three-member board with instructions to sell government shares quickly, under legislation two senators plan to introduce Wednesday.

Last Thursday, Sen. Bob Corker was scheduled to meet with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.A Yet when Sotomayor was delayed because of her recent injury, Corker decided that he had more important things to do than to wait around for a potential lifetime appointee who is temporarily disabled: Sen.

Two U.S. senators - one Democrat, the other a Republican well known in Michigan's auto industry circles - introduced a measure that would put the government's shares of General Motors in a newly created trust and call for those shares to be liquidated by the end of 2011.

Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says President Barack Obama would get a longer-lasting health care reform plan if Republicans were given a say in the legislation.

As Pres. Barack Obama ramps up his rhetoric on health care reform, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn, and Rep.

Main Category: Pharmacy / Pharmacist Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 19 Jun 2009 The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians announced that the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act has received the support of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and Senator Bob Corker of ...

Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 3:33 p.m. One day after the Obama Administration unveiled its sweeping new financial regulatory proposal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner headed up to Capitol Hill on Thursday to sell the plan to lawmakers who will craft the legislation that drives it.

June 17: President Obama lays out his plan to overhaul the U.S. financial regulatory system, saying the lure of "easy money" had led firms and consumers alike to contribute to the economic crisis.