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The United States has a representative democracy or a republic. Americans vote for state legislators and members of Congress, and they represent the voters in their states or districts.

Q: How did Georgia members of the House of Representatives vote on the health care bill that passed the House? - Ben Shapiro, Atlanta A: Democratic Reps.

Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform.

Veterans Day is two days past, but for this college teacher every day is veterans day, for a number of my students, male and female, have come home from Iraq, Afghanistan or from stateside military service.

Health-care reform was the hot button issue at a town hall meeting Thursday night with U.S. Rep.

Thinking Right's weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic: a- Soldiers killed at Fort Hood died on the battlefield, killed by an enemy combatant who, astonishingly, managed to evade detection despite obvious clues.

From the Albany Herald - The debate over health care reform, at least what has been proposed so far, may boil down to another question - abortion.

Congressman Jim Marshall voted against the health care bill that passed the house Saturday night with 220 votes saying yes and 215 representatives voting against the measure.

The only two Democrats from Georgia who voted against their party's health reform legislation in the U.S. House have voiced concerns with the plans for months.

Every Republican Congressman from Georgia voted against the healthcare bill. Every Democrat voted for it except two.

Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, who faced criticism from liberal groups for his misgivings about the so-called public option government-run insurance program, was one of 39 Democrats to vote Saturday evening against the historic health-care overhaul at the top of the Obama administration's domestic agenda.

The Associated Press : "Voting is set for Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion legislation that embraces Obama's goals of extending health coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and putting tough new restrictions on insurance companies." The points of contention remain abortion and immigration .

The House has narrowly passed the Democratic-written bill on health care. The vote was 220 to 215.

U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, who had planned to hold a town hall meeting tomorrow in Macon, has rescheduled that meeting for Thursday so he can be in Washington, D.C. for votes on health care reform, his office said.

Valerie Meyers, a self-described "Ron Paul Republican," sent out a press release yesterday afternoon announcing her intention to seek the Republican nominate for Congress in GA-8: Valerie Meyers, a mother of two who lives in Houston County, announced today that she will seek the Republican nomination for the 8th Congressional District.

House Democratic leaders worked furiously on Thursday to secure the final votes for weekend approval of a sweeping health care overhaul as President Obama threw his weight behind the lobbying effort and Republicans dug in against the health plan.

While the political community has been following the elections around the country, few noticed that Florida lost a political giant, former state Representative Marshall Harris, who passed away Monday in Miami.

With the clock ticking toward a court-imposed deadline in the tri-state water wars, members of Congress are growing increasingly frustrated -- and worried -- that governors of Georgia, Alabama and Florida aren't working quickly enough toward a settlement in the case.

Members of Georgia's congressional delegation have invited their counterparts from Alabama and Florida to a discussion on how to resolve the tri-state water dispute.

The Senate passed a defense authorizations bill late Thursday night with a 68-29 vote.