Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to Rome on Saturday to stump for Shawn Harris and energize Democrats in Georgia's 14th Congressional District. GPB’s Sarah Kallis reports.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Thursday with a provision backed by U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock that would ban large corporations from owning too many homes.
The 236 Georgia House and Senate seats will decide on tax rates, health care access, gun laws, data centers, environmental protection and more, and 53 winners are already known.
On Tuesday at the Capitol, lawmakers were paid a visit by two Trump administration officials, and the House took on its only constitutionally required duty.
The race to succeed Gov. Brian Kemp has officially taken shape now that a crowded field of candidates from both major parties has qualified to run for Georgia’s highest state office.
It was a quiet day at the Capitol on Monday, perhaps due to a bit of Crossover Day hangover as both chambers recovered from their late night on Friday.
The Senate started off the day early with 57 bills or resolutions on the calendar for Crossover Day. Meanwhile, income tax was on the calendar again in the House.
The Senate already adjourned for the night on Wednesday, but it's looking like another late night in the House as lawmakers continue to pass as many bills as possible before the Crossover Day deadline.
The latest candidate to enter the Georgia Republican primary for governor is a health care executive whose company supplied hospital and nursing home workers during the COVID emergency under a state contract.
