Georgia’s lone GOP health care holdout urges leaders to try again
WASHINGTON – The lone Georgia Republican to go against his party leaders on health care thinks the GOP should take another stab at repealing and replacing Obamacare. “Our hearts are ready,” U.S. Rep....
View ArticleGa.’s congressional Republicans circle the wagons around Karen Handel
WASHINGTON — Georgia’s House Republicans are looking to project a united front in order to keep the 6th District seat of their onetime colleague, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, in GOP...
View ArticleAn estimated 1 in 5 Republicans voted for Jon Ossoff
The new number that could haunt Republicans in the June 20 runoff for the Sixth District: An estimated one in five Republicans voted for Democrat Jon Ossoff last week. That’s what Nate Cohn of The New...
View ArticleJody Hice gets to ‘yes’ on health care overhaul
WASHINGTON — The lone Georgia Republican congressman to reject an earlier iteration of the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan said he’s now on board after conservatives struck a deal with a moderate...
View ArticleHow Georgia’s congressmen voted on replacing Obamacare
WASHINGTON — After months of arm twisting, false starts and political football, the House finally went on the record on the Republican health care plan Thursday. The chamber ultimately passed the...
View ArticleDonald Trump stops short — doesn’t accuse Russia of U.S. meddling
One day before his sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany, we have an attempt to split the baby. From the Associated Press: WARSAW — President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to confront...
View ArticleGeorgia’s GOP congressmen vote in lockstep with Trump
WASHINGTON – Georgia’s Republican lawmakers in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of Donald Trump’s legislative initiatives during the president’s first six months in office. In fact, the state’s...
View ArticlePsychiatric group okays public talk of Donald Trump’s mental state
A national organization of psychiatrists has sent a note out to members, telling them that they don’t have to observe a 44-year-old rule forbidding comments on the mental state of politicians and other...
View ArticleJohnny Isakson could play pivotal role in any effort to oust Roy Moore
Beverly Young Nelson, the latest accuser of Alabama Republican Roy Moore, shows her high school yearbook signed by Moore, at a press conference in New York on Monday. Nelson says Moore assaulted her...
View ArticleGOP effort to push Roy Moore out of U.S. Senate race falters
Former Alabama chief justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks in Vestavia Hills, Ala., on Saturday. AP/Hal Yeager The Republican effort to persuade U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore to leave...
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