While America was sleeping, the United States Senate took up a procedural vote that sets up ObamaCare for final passage, likely on Christmas Eve:Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a [...]
It looks like Senate Democrats are going to have the 60 votes needed to move towards final passage for ObamaCare after Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) struck a deal on abortion and took a bribe for pork:
Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, was prepared [...]
While most families will be out drinking egg nog, celebrating with friends and family or tucking their kids into bed for Christmas, Senate Majority Leader The Grinch Harry Reid may be putting a big lump of coal in taxpayers’ stockings.
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Live blogging the caucus meeting: Ralston wins speaker vote | Gold Dome Live [...] Georgia Rep. Tommy Smith (R-Nicholls) is withdrawing his candidacy for state House speaker, the day before the Republican caucus was set to vote. Smith, a South Georgia blueberry farmer, said his support didn’t materialize.
“It doesn’t look I’ve got the votes,” he told the AJC.
The former Democrat and a 30-year member [...]
Below are what lobbyists have spent on candidates for the three open leadership spots in the House Republican Caucus in the first three quarters of 2009. You can find more detail here.
Candidates for Speaker
Larry O’Neal - $5,292.57Bill Hembree - $1,653.60David Ralston - $1,330.02Barry Loudermilk - $596.57Tommy Smith [...]
Below are what lobbyists have spent on candidates for the three open leadership spots in the House Republican Caucus in the first three quarters of 2009. You can find more detail here.
Candidates for Speaker
Larry O’Neal – $5,292.57 Bill Hembree – $1,653.60 David Ralston – $1,330.02 Barry Loudermilk – $596.57 Tommy Smith – [...]Snellville has approved sale of alcohol by the drink on Sunday:The Snellville City Council on Monday night amended its liquor laws to allow restaurants to serve alcohol on Sundays.
The decision, by a 4-2 vote, also extends the hours licensed establishments can sell liquor, wine or beer from midnight to [...]
State Representative Bill Hembree has written the members of the majority caucus to solicit their votes for his candidacy for Speaker of the Georgia House.
His correspondence contains general goals and concepts rather than specific positions on issues, but does inject a more moralistic meme into [...]
11 Alive put out this report on the House Republican Caucus meeting that took place yesterday at Georgia Tech, which was closed off to the media (only 22 out of 105 members voted to keep the meeting open). They got some comments from State Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta), [...]
From the AJC’s Aaron Gould Sheinin:
Update 1:23 p.m.: The House caucus confab has broken up and members made for the door fairly quickly. The headlines: The caucus will meet next Thursday to vote for their choice of speaker and speaker pro tem and will elect majority whip.
The choices for [...]
Update 1:23 p.m.: The House caucus confab has broken up and members made for the door fairly quickly. The headlines: The caucus will meet next Thursday to vote for their choice of speaker and speaker pro tem and will elect majority whip.
The choices for speaker and speaker pro tem will [...]
Rep. Chuck Martin has an…inventive…new proposal for selection of the next Speaker of the Georgia House. As The Beacon newspaper terms it: “elect the next Ga. House Speaker right from the floor in a series of public and open votes and make the Speaker selection [...]
The 59th Mayor of the great City of Atlanta is...drumroll...Kasim Reed.
From the AJC:
Kasim Reed won the Atlanta mayor's race by 714 votes, a recount of the Dec. 1 runoff results showed Wednesday.
Reed won 42,549 votes while Mary Norwood won 41,835 votes, Fulton County officials' [...]
There was never any doubt about the outcome, but in case you wondered, Kasim Reed has officially won the Atlanta mayor's race after a recount Wednesday by Fulton County election officials showed that he finished 714 votes ahead of City Councilwoman Mary Norwood.
I've spent much of the morning trying to confirm rumors about the unrest in the House Republican Caucus. From what I've got so far, the caucus wants leadership replaced before the start of the session.
A motion could be made on Friday to hold a vote as soon as December [...]
