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Wed., August 31, 2011 5:45pm
Republican state lawmakers approved maps that drew the Congressman out of his district. Barrow says, the GOP majority put politics over population in drawing political boundaries. The new map puts Barrow's home -- heavily Democratic Savannah in the neighboring 1st District.
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Mon., February 7, 2011 5:00pm
Cases are still outstanding three years after the deadly explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar refinery near Savannah. Fourteen people died and scores were wounded in one of the worst industrial disasters in state history. Federal officials later found, the company "willfully" violated safety rules by letting combustible dust build up.
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Mon., December 13, 2010 4:46pm
Fresh off his appointment to the powerful US House Appropriations Committee, Georgia Republican Congressman Tom Graves says, his anti-earmark pledge applies even to harbor deepening. State officials consider the half-billion-dollar project to deepen the Port of Savannah critical for job creation. But in his first week since being named to the House panel that oversees federal spending, Graves says, he will put the nation's interest first.
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Thu., December 2, 2010 5:08pm
U-S Congressman Jack Kingston is angling to fill a powerful post in the House G-O-P leadership. Kingston is one-of-three Republicans who want the position of Appropriations Committee Chair. It has huge influence over the federal budget. Kingston, however, has to get by two more senior House members.
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Thu., November 18, 2010 10:43pm
With most of Georgia's Republican US House delegation signed on to a "no earmark" pledge, the fate of Georgia's biggest economic development project falls to Senators and some Democrats. GOP leaders in the new Congress say they won't pass a budget with unpopular so-called "pork barrel" spending. But that might include harbor deepening at the Port of Savannah.
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Thu., July 22, 2010 3:50pm
Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia have joined the fledgling congressional Tea Party Caucus.
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Wed., July 21, 2010 4:25pm
The U.S. Senate voted to extend unemployment benefits Tuesday and this week the measure is up for a vote in the House. The decision could bring some much needed relief to hundreds of thousands of out of work Georgians.
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Fri., March 19, 2010 4:51pm
The Savannah Democrat was one of a handful of Democrats who hadn't committe
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Tue., February 23, 2010 9:18am
Ryla will serve as a subcontractor to IBM partner TeleTech for the 2010 Cen
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Wed., September 30, 2009 2:11pm
A bill that will give chlorine manufacturers like Olin a set time limit for
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