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Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:19:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress - a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies.

Several Republicans weighing challenge to Barrow

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:23:56 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - Now that Rep. John Barrow has turned down a campaign for the U.S. Senate, the challenge ahead for the Deep South's last white Democratic congressman will be to defy the odds a second time by winning re-election in an eastern Georgia district that was drawn to ensure his defeat.

Morehouse grads march across campus to hear Obama

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:33:15 -0400

ATLANTA - President Barack Obama is having a rough stretch politically, but the nation's first black president was treated like a hero Sunday at graduation exercises for Morehouse College, the historically black men's school that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.

Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:53:18 -0400

ATLANTA - Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Handel jumps into crowded US Senate race in Ga.

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:04:23 -0400

ATLANTA - Karen Handel, the former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive at the center of last year's public clash with Planned Parenthood, said Friday that she will run for an open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.

Handel jumps into crowded US Senate race in Ga.

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:25:23 -0400

ATLANTA - Karen Handel, the former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive at the center of last year's public clash with Planned Parenthood, says she'll be running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.

SC, Ga. senators voice MOX support to White House

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:39 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Republican senators from South Carolina and Georgia have called on the Obama administration to continue funding a program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel, saying that slowing or ending the project would harm international and domestic relationships.

Ga. avoids limit on reservoir use in Senate bill

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:03:48 -0400

ATLANTA - Georgia legislators thwarted on Wednesday an attempt by Alabama and Florida to limit how much water metro Atlanta and North Georgia can take from federal reservoirs.

Pridemore announces bid for Congress

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:53:48 -0400

MARIETTA, Georgia - The former executive director of the Governor's Office of Workforce Development says she's running for Congress in Georgia's 11th District.

Barrow says he won't run for open US Senate seat

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:48:23 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - Rep. John Barrow, the last white Democratic congressman from the Deep South, ended months of speculation about his political future Tuesday by announcing he won't run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Saxby Chambliss.

Corker: US moving closer to arming Syrian rebels

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:25:08 -0400

WASHINGTON - A Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is predicting the U.S. will soon be "arming the rebels" seeking to overthrow Syria's Bashar Assad.

Chambliss hits hole-in-one during golf with Obama

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:58:12 -0400

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator won a victory over the president Monday - on the golf course.

Hole-in-one as Obama golfs with 3 senators

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:05:37 -0400

WASHINGTON - So much for overshadowing your rivals, Mr. President.

Republican Ga. lawmaker to seek Kingston's seat

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:29:05 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - A Republican state lawmaker from the Savannah area plans to run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by longtime GOP Rep. Jack Kingston.

Kingston promises 'common sense' in Senate race

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:05:26 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - Georgia's longest-serving Republican congressman announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate Thursday with a speech focused on jobs, spending and defense that also included a single line aimed at two fellow U.S. House members who are now his political rivals.

Rep. Kingston to announce US Senate bid

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:35:57 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah said Wednesday he is joining what's turning out to be a crowded 2014 race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.

Kingston plans statewide events amid Senate talk

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:31:31 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston has political events planned across Georgia this week after months of speculation about whether the Savannah Republican will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

Montana Democrat Baucus rules out 7th Senate term

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:30:08 -0400

WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana announced plans Tuesday to retire at the end of his term after a career of enormous power and notable independence, producing both collaboration and conflict with fellow Democrats on major tax and health care legislation.