...agreement was approved 95-11 in the House and 35-5 in the Senate, receiving the necessary super-majority votes. It had to be...up the budget compromise worked out by a panel of House and Senate members late Monday after a full day of behind-the-scenes...

...transparency. A key principle in the plan would require multinationals to declare how much tax they pay in each country.U.S. Senate hearings this year investigating the tax payment policies of Apple found that the smartphone and computer innovator also has...

...the city. Last week former Augusta Commission member Joe Bowles said he'd announce plans to run for the District 22 state Senate seat next year when sitting Sen. Hardie Davis officially announces he'll run ... Saturday, May 11, 2013 We don't...

...the 1st District race in southeast Georgia barely a month after Kingston kicked off his Senate campaign.Buddy Carter, a pharmacist elected to the state Senate in 2009, said he expects Democrats will find a candidate and hope to take advantage...

...marks for four.South Carolina could get to six with two proposals approved by the House this year and awaiting action in the Senate.Those measures would allow veterans to immediately pay in-state tuition at public colleges ? waiving the one-year residency...

...Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., held a Veterans Affairs Committee field hearing in Augusta to examine it. In September, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution to commend the two hospitals for their work. Fort Gordon has many soldiers deployed to Iraq and...

...571 so far this year. He chaired the Senate Higher Education Committee last year...Carter claimed nearly as much last year as Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Hill, R-Reidsville...with the state budget keeps the House and Senate appropriations chairmen busy, both in...

...legislative venue, the high court said Wednesday, that should have received the complaint in the first place."The House and Senate Legi slative Ethics Comm ittees are charged with the exclusive responsibility for the handling of ethics complaints involving...

...was the third time Crawley has been recognized for that night. He already had been honored with a resolution from the Georgia Senate and a Department of Natural Resources award."I don't feel like I deserve it," Crawley said of being named a hero...

...obscenely outrageous?""The defense of this practice offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to be preventing this sort of overreaching, was absurd," the Times wrote. The newspaper...