Saxby Chambliss News

One of Atlanta's most historic churches, Ebenezer Baptist Church, is calling health care for all Americans a moral right, not a privilege.

As the runoff for Atlanta mayor gears up, state Sen. Kasim Reed is getting a plug from a Democrat whose race went into extra innings -- but who lost.

It looks like Macon Mayor Robert Reichert is close to proposing a pay scale for city employees - something that's been a top priority for years but has always been too expensive to put in place.

A liberal Republican Congressional candidate in New York has dropped out of the race, with pundits saying this could be a warning from conservatives to party leaders.

ATLANTA a ' If history is any guide, the runoff for mayor in Atlanta will be an expensive, bare-knuckles brawl that could lay bare racial divisions in the city that served as the cradle of the civil rights movement.

Addressing what he says is a major shortfall in congressional Democrats' plans for a health care overhaul, Republican U.S. Sen.

United States Senators Lindsey Graham and Saxby Chambliss today introduced "loser pays" legislation to decrease the number of frivolous lawsuits that increase the cost of medical care.

TRUMPING THE GOP Re: W. James Antle III's Revolt on the Right : Conservative principles have finally trumped loyalty to the Republican Party because after DECADES, we Conservatives have quit waiting to have the favor returned.

Sen. Johnny Isakson Georgia's two senators are among more than two dozen co-sponsoring a bill that requires proposed legislation be posted on the Internet at least 72 hours before the Senate or any committee debates or votes on the proposal.

'The one thing I hope for producers: that they understand if these carbon rules are put in place, the land will be saturated with carbon contracts and they won't be able to get paid for carbon sequestration.

Tom Coburn's tirade about the hypocrisy of using deficits to decry Democratic health care plans while voting for pumped-up appropriations bills was seconded by several senators.

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The Senate passed a defense authorizations bill late Thursday night with a 68-29 vote.

U.S. troops and other American voters overseas will get more time to send in their ballots and more electronic access to voting forms under legislation Congress passed Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss , Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry,was inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame during a ceremony held at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md.

Airline and railroad employees are more highly unionized than employees in other sectors of the economy.

Senate Democrats are crying foul over an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill, offered this month by Sen.

"? Photo courtesy office of Sen. Bill Nelson Getting $10,000 from selling 24 head of Santa Gertrudis cattle set Sen.

More than 70 Farm Credit workers from across Georgia will set stages, cook, judge contests, shuttle conventioneers and host events at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie this October.

The Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce hosted a Georgia Chamber listening session at Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation, 273 Norman Drive, Wednesday.