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Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Georgia has one of the most conservative --- and one of the most liberal ---members of Congress, according to new rankings that illustrate the state's [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Who can get political opposites such as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid, Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Republican Rep. Eric Cantor all [...]

Byline: Chris Joyner, Bob Keefe A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood in Georgia expressed disappointment at a vote Friday in the GOP-controlled U.S. House to eliminate federal funding to the organization. [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- The new budget-slashing bent by congressional Republicans is making for some strange bedfellows. Take, for example, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Coweta County. Wednesday, the four-term [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- John Lewis first visited the White House and President John Kennedy in 1963 as a 23-year-old son of sharecroppers intent on changing the world. He [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe, Dan Chapman WASHINGTON --- Georgia will get only a fraction of the federal money state leaders say they need to expand the Port of Savannah, and other [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- President Barack Obama releases his proposed 2012 budget today, the first step in figuring out how the federal government should spend your tax dollars in [...]

Byline: Dan Chapman, Bob Keefe No item in President Barack Obama's budget, to be released Monday, is more highly anticipated by Georgia political and business leaders than a much-coveted $105 [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- When high-powered delegates to the United Nations Security Council convened in Munich recently, Georgia's two senators were among them. Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss was at [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- U.S. Rep. Paul Broun wants to shut down the Department of Energy. Maybe the Environmental Protection Agency, too. It's unlikely Broun will succeed. But with [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta already is considered a hero of the civil rights movement. Could he soon become a comic book superhero, too? [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Four years before Rep. Phil Gingrey sponsored his latest legislation aimed at limiting medical malpractice awards, the former obstetrician was involved in a $500,000 settlement [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- With the Georgia Legislature debating tough new restrictions on illegal workers and Congress considering immigration reform, Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey of Marietta went straight to [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- First lady Michelle Obama is planning to travel to Atlanta on Wednesday to talk about childhood obesity prevention and to mark the first anniversary of [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- The speed and ferocity of the turmoil in Egypt have some in Congress wondering why U.S. officials didn't see such unrest coming --- especially in [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- It got overshadowed by all the hubbub surrounding Republicans and Democrats sitting together at Tuesday's State of the Union speech. But two Georgians on opposite [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe Chambliss gets post on intelligence committee Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has been named vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the panel responsible [...]

Byline: James Salzer, Bob Keefe Everything from road and port projects to school lunch programs could be affected by federal government plans to freeze or cut spending. On Tuesday night, [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.: '[President Barack Obama's] idea of investment is more big government. My idea is for the private sector to be empowered, and that's what [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe Giffords remembered in House chamber One seat in the House chamber was empty in honor of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., recovering from the Jan. 8 assassination attempt [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson plans to sit with Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss expects to be next to Sen. Mark [...]

Byline: Craig Schneider, Bob Keefe As Georgia politicians jockey for leverage on issues from the health care overhaul to illegal immigration, they are invoking a rallying cry that echoes all [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Kasim Reed has been all over the place promoting the deepening of the Port of Savannah. Thursday, the venue was the White House, where Atlanta's [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed and leaders of other cities met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday and came away with a [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Democratic U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop called Internet insinuations that he was somehow involved in fraud surrounding last year's settlement between the government and African-American farmers [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Georgia's representatives in Congress stuck to party lines in Wednesday's vote for repealing the health care law, while one Georgia congressman introduced a bill aimed [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe, Misty Williams WASHINGTON --- As the new Republican-led House prepared for a promised vote on repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation, supporters and opponents scrambled [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Congress, the saying goes, controls the government's purse strings. And as a new Republican-led House reconvenes Tuesday, nobody in Georgia's delegation to Washington is poised [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- His solemn face gazes thoughtfully over Washington once again, not so different from that day in August 1963 when he stood on the Lincoln Memorial [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill resulted from problems common throughout the oil industry, and more government oversight and regulations are needed to prevent another [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Law enforcement officials have scheduled a security briefing for all members of Congress on Wednesday, and congressional leaders are considering changes to try to provide [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe There was the pomp and the circumstance and the swapping of the supersize gavel marking the political power switch in the House and the official start of [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- In a symbolic move by a new Republican majority, the people who make our laws read the document that is the foundation for our laws [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Georgia Republicans, not surprisingly, were all smiles about the GOP's first day leading the House. 'It's good. It's real good,' said Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- As Republicans officially took control of the U.S. House on Wednesday, three Georgia Democrats provided the biggest surprises of the day. As a clerk called [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON If members of the 112th Congress stick to the promises that got them elected, cutting government spending will be at the top of the to-do list [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- If you think of government spending, big-ticket programs such as Social Security, highway maintenance and defense might come to mind. But like any household's, the [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- President Barack Obama plans to sign into law today an overhaul of the nation's food safety regulations that has been more than two years in [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- He dropped off most voters' radar screens after losing a 2004 bid to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. But conservative Atlanta radio show host [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Georgia's representatives in Congress are expected to spend more time in Georgia --- and less time in Washington --- after Republicans take over the U.S. [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Georgia's 13 U.S. House of Representatives members are home and the 111th Congress is complete. For Democratic Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, so is his [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Georgia will get a 14th seat in the U.S. House and an extra vote in the Electoral College in 2012 based on U.S. Census Bureau [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Like so much in Washington, the complexity of the tax package that Congress passed didn't make it easy for everyday citizens to understand. Georgia's elected [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- President Barack Obama on Friday signed the sweeping tax package passed by Congress, the final step in clearing the way for continued tax breaks, extended [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss doesn't exactly have a long reputation as a deficit hawk or a bastion of bipartisanship. But Georgia's senior senator is taking [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Sen. Saxby Chambliss and other Republicans on Wednesday blasted Democrats' plans to push through a key nuclear arms treaty with Russia in the waning hours [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON - The Republican takeover of the U.S. House is resulting in some plum assignments for some of Georgia's GOP House members. When the 112th Congress convenes [...]

Byline: J. Scott Trubey, Bob Keefe The Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program was blasted in Washington on Tuesday as 'ineffective.' Struggling metro Atlanta homeowners like Miriam Vincent share the same [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Congressman-elect Rob Woodall campaigned on the Fair Tax idea that his former boss, retiring Rep. John Linder, has championed for years. Woodall won the right [...]

Byline: Bob Keefe WASHINGTON --- Republican Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah won't have a tighter grip on Washington's purse strings after all. Kingston on Tuesday lost his bid to become [...]