Lynn Westmoreland News

Conservative Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will be in Georgia, his home state, and will appear at the Atlanta Marriott Northwest hotel on Saturday, February 18, 2012 from 3pm until 5pm.

Former Lamar County Board of Commissioners Chairman Kent Kingsley is running for Congress.

In addition to the presidential race and the July vote on a regional sales tax for transportation projects, nearly every Coweta County official is up for reelection this year -- as are three school board members, and Coweta's state and federal legislators.

I've been saying since the 2010 elections that the TEA Party energy - and entropy - would likely be directed at incumbent Republicans in the 2012 cycle as much if not more so than Democrats during the 2012 cycle.A We already have Michael Opitz challenging Phil Gingrey in GA-11.A Now comes word that political newcomer Kent Kingsley will challenge ... (more)

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, joined fellow Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia on Tuesday in requesting a House hearing on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s sale of loans from failed banks, including the former Bank of Clark County, to Miami-based Rialto Capital Management, as well as similar sales.

The Heard County Board of Commissioners held a Commissioners Meeting onA December 29, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the Heard County Courthouse.

On Jan. 26, the Transportation Department began requiring airlines and ticket agents to quote fares that include all mandatory taxes and fees.

A University of Georgia professor said the down economy has held agriculture back the last two years, but he's optimistic about this year.

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills aimed at updating and improving the federal budget process, reports Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga. Third District.

WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Trent Franks is on challenging terrain when wooing his congressional colleagues to back Newt Gingrich for president.

On Jan. 26, the Transportation Department began requiring airlines and ticket agents to quote fares that include all mandatory taxes and fees.

On Friday, the Carroll County Agriculture Center hosted the 2012 Agricultural Forecast presented by the University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, where the general message was that things are gradually getting better.

Nationally, political analysts are combing through recently filed Federal Election Commission campaign finance disclosures, following the money trail from PACs and the so-called "super" PACs back to the candidates running for office.

On ABC's This Week, we were treated to another interview by Speaker of the House John Boehner where he did a bit of history revision on what went on with Republicans and their recent mucking up the works on allowing an extension of the payroll tax cut to be extended.

The House has done its job in passing bills aimed at job creation, Speaker John Boehner said Sunday, even if the legislation approved by the Republican-led chamber is close to dead on arrival in the Democratic Senate.

In an economy that continues to be defined by ongoing unemployment troubles, dismal state budgets, and other bad news trouble's brewing among House Republicans : "We need to get more done," said Rep.

In Georgia, Republican lawyers have always been a small and inconsequential lot.

Last week, President Obama announced he will deny construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.A The pipeline was anticipated to have created as many as 140,000 direct and indirect jobs, would have meant much-needed tax revenue for state and local governments around the pipeline, and would have lowered energy costs for all Americans.A Energy prices ... (more)

That's what a growing number of House Republicans have been saying privately - and now publicly - about what they've seen so far of their party's 2012 legislative agenda.

Local career center recruits and refers domestic workers to the employer until the date H-2A workers depart for work, or three days prior to the first work date.