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Members of Congress representing Chatham County reacted warily to President Barack Obamaa s announcement that hea s sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he is "generally" supportive of a proposal to levy a "war surtax" on Americans to offset the cost of the Afghanistan war, a tax that would be set by the president himself.

Gen. Burwell "BB" Bell Retired Gen. Burwell "BB" Bell said the date-specific Afghanistan plan announcement by President Barack Obama was "the crucial ingredient that's been missing in our Afghan strategy." Gen.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner affirmed Wednesday the administration's intent to soon end the $700 billion financial bailout program.

Days after returning from a whirlwind tour of Southwest Asia during the Thanksgiving weekend, Georgia Sen.

By Paul Kane President Obama won endorsements Tuesday from leading congressional hawks for his proposal to send 30,000 additional troops into Afghanistan, but antiwar liberals denounced the policy and vowed to fight the effort when the war-funding legislation arrives on Capitol Hill.

On the heels of a holiday visit to troops in Afghanistan and allies in Pakistan U.S. Sen.

Politico's Alexander Burns takes a look "at some of the most dramatic, consequential, or just plain weird political moments that have colored Thanksgivings in recent years." Burns first notes how President George W. Bush "raised the bar with a surprise trip to Baghdad, where he helped serve Thanksgiving dinner to U.S. troops eight months after the ...

Sen. Saxby Chambliss is leading a Georgia congressional delegation that's visiting Afghanistan, and he says the U.S. must increase it troop strength there.

By Paul Kane Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told a group of key congressmen Thursday that President Obama was engaged in a "thoughtful process" of deciding on his request for additional troops in the region.

The Senate is poised to vote tonight on a procedural motion that would allow debate to start on a 2,074-page health care proposal.

WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., on the Senate floor today, discussed the health care bill introduced by Sen.

The WSJ reports in " General Electric Pursues Pot of Government Stimulus Gold " that General Electric hopes to earn about $192B in sales from government-funded economic stimulus programs in the U.S. and foreign nations.

Congressman Nathan Deal is pushing the Senate to include his identification and citizenship verification language in the Senate health care bill.

Isakson, Chambliss Urge Georgians to 'Drive Safer Sunday' WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today praised the Senate's passage of a resolution they authored to designate Sunday, November 29, 2009, as 'Drive Safer Sunday.' The senators have introduced similar resolutions in the previous years in honor of ...

U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss , Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today received testimony during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing focused on combating hunger and improving child health through nutrition assistance programs.

Georgia's senators are bracing for a contentious debate on health-care reform and are dubious of Majority Leader Harry Reid's efforts as he prepares to unveil the Senate's version of health-care reform legislation, possibly as early as this week.

Georgia doctors don't want government-run health care, says Dalton physician John Antalis.

Frequent readers of my column will recall that earlier this year I chastised Georgia U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss for endorsing Charlie Crist.

One of Atlanta's most historic churches, Ebenezer Baptist Church, is calling health care for all Americans a moral right, not a privilege.