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Georgia Senate majority leader quits

ATLANTA -- Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers announced Tuesday that he is leaving the Senate to take a job with Georgia Public Broadcasting.Gov. Nathan Deal personally offered...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-12-04/georgia-senate-majority-
State Senate leader Chip Rogers resigns

...Georgia Senate is resigning from the chamber to take a public broadcasting post, Senate officials said Tuesday.Sen. Chip Rogers, a Republican from Wood stock, will step down today, ending a decadelong tenure that saw him become one of the state's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-12-04/state-senate-leader-chip
Vote adds to pressure for Georgia lobbying cap

...Williams, who is leaving his leadership post next year but will remain a lawmaker. Another new backer is Majority Leader Chip Rogers.The bill's prospects in the House seem bleaker because no member of Ralston's leadership team would pledge to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-08-04/vote-adds-pressure-georg
Ga. senator expenses under scrutiny

...lawmaker filed with the state.Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers of Woodstock received the reimbursements for mailings...invoices Rogers filed with the state list Friends of Chip Rogers, the name of his campaign. But also Rogers signed statements...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-09-20/ga-senator-expenses-under-sc
Analysis: 'Easy does it' is Gov. Deal's style

...Means, House Judiciary Non Civil and Senate Insurance & Labor committees. Also feeling it were Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers and Rep. Charlice Byrd, two tea party darlings.Byrd's proposal, House Bill 456, got the most headlines because...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-05-20/analysis-easy-does-it-go
Analysis: Ga. Democrats may be shrinking but they're not vanishing

...happen.Jerry Luquire, president of the Georgia Christian Coalition chapter, called for Senate Republican Leader Chip Rogers' resignation over revelations on an investigative-journalism website called Atlanta Unfiltered that Rogers had been...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2012-06-03/analysis-ga-de
Georgia lobbyists spend on lawmakers

...office told the newspaper on Friday he plans to study the issue of lobbying later this year. And Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers this year quietly decided not to accept any gifts from lobbyists.It's hard to connect a lobbyist's spending with...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-04-08/georgia-lobbyists-spend-
Georgia uses funds for driver's education elsewhere

...16-year-old son, Joshua, died in a wreck in 2003."It's really disheartening," Brown said.Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers said he wants to make the issue a priority in the legislative session in January.He said lawmakers tend to view specially...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-08-04/georgia-uses-funds-drivers-ed
Tax reform challenges remain

...Georgians earning less than $80,000, even after lowering the income tax.On the other hand, Senate Republican Leader Chip Rogers of Woodstock said the jobs that result from luring more factories is a worthwhile fiscal goal."We don't need higher...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-12-06/tax-reform-challenges-remain
Deal targets energy tax

...almost, as far as tax reform is concerned, the one issue that everyone agrees on," said Senate Majority Lea der Chip Rogers, R-Wood stock.However, the specifics of Deal's proposal to end the tax are still being hammered out, and a...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-01-15/deal-targets-energy-tax