Paul Broun announced yesterday that he misses the $174,000 he used to make in a taxpayer funded salary. After shopping various districts he’s decided to run against Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville in Georgia’s 9th district. Broun, a Congressman from Athens in the 10th Congressional district, now claims Clarkesville as home. But no matter. He’s
U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday on his decision to not consider a nominee to the Supreme Court before the next president is sworn into office in November: “As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I stand with Chairman Grassley and other
Senator David Perdue is concerned enough about the nation’s growing debt crisis that he refused to endorse a Republican presidential candidate because he hoped to be able to convince each of them to take on the issue. He pointed out that after some ten presidential debates, the national debt, which he feels should be a
Georgia congressmen John Lewis and Barry Loudermilk both had a good Wednesday. The House of Representatives passed both of their resolutions. Lewis expanded the MLK National Site to include King’s Prince Hall Masonic Lodge and, most importantly, got it upgraded to a national historic park. Loudermilk’s resolution means the U.S. government can acquire the historic Wallis
Today, President Obama spoke at the White House on his plan to shutdown the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. The Department of Defense will submit a 4-point plan to Congress that includes finding a facility in the U.S. to hold any remaining detainees. Several members of our Georgia congressional delegation have sent us their reaction to the
From a press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicating that he will exercise his constitutional authority to withhold consent of any nominee submitted by President Barack Obama and the Senate Judiciary Committee will not hold
Congressmen Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Georgia) stopped by Marco Rubio’s Cobb County GA campaign headquarters for a media availability before continuing on to an event for campaign supporters. Regarding the official topic at hand, Gowdy said his support for Rubio was because he “carries our message in an aspirational and thus persuasive
In a press release sent out by Senator Johnny Isakson’s office on Wednesday, both Senators Isakson and Perdue called upon the president to reverse the recent spending cuts to the U.S. Army’s budget. The cuts come as a part of the president’s fiscal year 2017 budget and would provide for and “Army end strength number” of
This week’s Courier Herald column: Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday. The immediate political reaction was as expected as it was unseemly. Expected because one of the courts most conservative members has left a vacancy during a heated election to replace our country’s most progressive President. Expected because the candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie sanders
Representative Barry Loudermilk (R, GA-11) recently introduced a bill that would increase involvement by local law enforcement in the fight against terrorism. H.R 4401, also known as the “Amplifying Local Efforts to Root out Terrorism (ALERT) Act of 2016,” is also intended to improve coordination between all levels of law enforcement and raise awareness of the threat posed
