Saxby Chambliss News

It appears confirmation of Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at OMB will be held up because Senator Saxby Chambliss is concerned about Sunstein's embrace of certain animal rights arguments.

Ted Kaufman says the SEC is not moving fast enough to prevent naked short selling, a practice which some think played a major role in the financial crisis.

Congress and the White House are heading toward a showdown over the future of the F-22 jet fighter, as the Senate plans to consider adding seven more of the planes while the Obama administration warns that a veto is likely over the issue.

Only one of the Columbia area's representatives in the U.S. Congress has taken a firm position on the proposed consumption tax known as the Fair Tax Act of 2009.

U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today praised the committee's approval of the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill that authorizes funding for our servicemen and women and their families, critical military construction projects at Georgia bases, as well as Georgia-made weapons ...

Congress and the White House appear headed for a collision. The White House this week threatened to veto a defense bill if it includes military spending that Defense Secretary Gates outlined as wasteful and unnecessary.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss and other foes of defense reform. - By Rachel Morris - Photo of Saxby Chambliss by flickr user Dizzy Girl used under a Creative Commons licence.

There is no doubt that the ending of any major acquisition program if it either in production or development is difficult.

Several members of the U.S. Congress have, in a variety of references, attempted to minimize the blowback from U.S. and British operations in Iran in 1953.

Strategic Vision, LLC, a public relations and public affairs agency, announced the results of a three-day poll of 800 likely Georgia voters.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday said he was having "a big problem" with Congressional efforts to restore funding for the F-22, indicating that a showdown is looming between the Pentagon and Capitol Hill over the future of the one of the Air Force's most advanced fighter jets.

With two top administrators at a DeKalb elementary school under suspicion of changing students' answers on the CRCTs, the DeKalb County District Attorney's office has now joined the investigation.

A Las Vegas area woman who once worked for Sen. John Ensign acknowledged Wednesday that she was the Nevada senator's mistress in an extramarital affair that has cost the onetime emerging GOP star his spot at the leadership table with Senate Republicans.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss today introduced federal legislation to promote a more rapid and effective national response to outbreaks of foodborne sickness like the recent case of salmonella-tainted peanut butter.

As expected, Georgia Democrats are giddy about Roy Barnes entering the race for governor.

You can print an online form at each Web site or send a letter with the following information for each flag requested: Your name, your address and phone number; the name you'd like on the certificate; the date flag is to be flown ; the occasion you are commemorating; any short inscription you would like on the certificate; the type of flag ...

Can't afford your mortgage payment? If the bank won't take your call, your member of Congress just might.

Among the 17 senators who voted against allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are some of the top recipients of campaign contributions from the tobacco industry, which has donated millions of dollars to lawmakers in the past several campaign cycles.

Former DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones will get off with a warning after failing to properly disclose that his campaign paid for advertisements and other materials supporting his U.S. Senate bid last year.

Last December, with Republicans still licking fresh wounds, Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss won a runoff election against Democrat Jim Martin.