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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today expressed disappointment in the administration's failure to address reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the budget proposal they released. "It...
A few great and currently applicable quotes that people have sent the Herald; Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ...
Special Session on Education passes legislation to boost college graduation ratesThe General Assembly passed major legislation this week designed to grow the number of college graduates in Tennessee as the work of the Special Session on Education...
Here are highlights from the past week of the Special Session of the Tennessee State Senate. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about matters being considered by the General Assembly. You can also get information...
Here are highlights from the past week of the Special Session of the Tennessee State Senate. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about matters being considered by the General Assembly. You can also get...
The following is a preview of the 2010 session of the Tennessee General Assembly. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about matters being considered by the General Assembly. You can also get information...
Pamphlet offers a free market idea for each remaining legislative day of the General AssemblyNASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today made available in electronic version its most recent publication, An Idea a Day: 45...
“If we think it’s such a great idea to dump 15 million or 16 million more Americans into a low-income program called Medicaid, then we should pay for it. We should pay for it somehow in the federal budget instead of dumping...
By Brooke StevensonThe Election Commission approved a change of location for the Catlettsburg polling location. The new location will be at Catlettsburg Elementary located at 1409 Catlettsburg Rd. which is the down the street...
The Sevier County Election Commission will meet at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Voting Machine Warehouse, 1145 Dolly Parton Parkway. “We have a polling location that we are probably going to move if the Election Commissioners vote in favor...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced that the conference report to the Interior appropriations bill he co-authored and that passed the Senate today will fund a number of conservation efforts across Tennessee, including...
PIKEVILLE, TN – Speaking at town hall meeting in Bledsoe County today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill could raise the cost of health insurance for some Tennesseans by as much...
NASHVILLE TN - Tea Party Cooperative, www.teapartycoop.com and Change The Congress In 2010, www.changethecongressin2010.com are pleased to announce the launching of our joint Tennessee Town Hall website forum at www.tntownhall.com...
As a follow-up to its recent program on the Electoral College, the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will present a lecture by a UT alumnus who is serving on a national committee looking...
October 16, 2009 — State Senator Doug Overbey (R-Maryville) has been appointed to the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Statewide Planning and Policy Council. The appointment was made by Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey in Nashville...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., delivered remarks on the Senate floor today outlining some of his concerns with the bill currently being debated in the Senate Finance Committee, noting that health care reform should not...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., delivered remarks on the Senate floor today concerning health care reform and outlined some of his concerns with the bill currently being debated in the Senate Finance Committee, noting that...
Congress and the American people ought to have ample time to read important bills, like the current health care reform bill. Before we vote, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office should have time to look at it and tell us exactly...
“It will be small businesses and start-ups that lead us out of the economic problems in the state,” state Senator Doug Overbey told Areawide Development Corporation members at their annual meeting, held Tuesday at Egwani Farms Golf...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) has been approved by the Senate Republican Conference and named by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging.Corker fills the...
