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5 days ago · ATLANTA - The Georgia Senate's Republican majority voted Monday to reauthorize a committee formed last year to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' role in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump.
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3 days ago · Kemp proposes limited expansion of Georgia Medicaid. by Dave Williams | Jan 15, 2025 | Capitol Beat News Service. ATLANTA – Georgia will seek federal approval to extend Medicaid coverage to some low-income parents and legal guardians of children through the age of six, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday.
General Assembly kicks off 2025 session - capitol-beat.org
5 days ago · ATLANTA – The General Assembly gaveled into session Monday with the usual pageantry and little of the heavy lifting that will be required to make it through the 40-day session. House lawmakers voted 153-21 to reelect Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, to preside over the chamber during the next two ...
Healthy surplus, long list of needs driving state budget
1 day ago · ATLANTA – With tax relief, disaster assistance, infrastructure investments and prison upgrades on his agenda, Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday proposed major budget increases, particularly in the spending plan covering the rest of this fiscal year. Kemp’s $40.5 billion fiscal 2025 mid-year budget, $4.4 ...
Georgia man arrested in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol
Oct 21, 2024 · ATLANTA – A Georgia man has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted the counting of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election.
Carter eulogized inside U.S. Capitol Rotunda
Jan 7, 2025 · ATLANTA – The celebration of the life of former President Jimmy Carter moved from Atlanta to the nation’s capitol Tuesday, with a day full of pageantry capped by a memorial service inside the Capitol Rotunda. The nation’s top political leaders praised the many accomplishments of Georgia’s ...
Trump win puts Georgia squarely back in red column
Nov 8, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia voters have reasserted the Peach State’s bona fides as a Republican stronghold. Four years after losing to Democrat Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in Georgia, former President Donald Trump captured the state’s 16 electoral votes Nov. 5 by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris by more than 117,000 votes.
Georgia Republican electors formally certify Trump’s victory
Dec 17, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia’s Republican presidential electors formally cast their votes for former President Donald Trump Tuesday in a ceremony at the state Capitol.
2024: Trump turns the tables on Georgia Democrats
Dec 20, 2024 · ATLANTA – Politics dominated 2024 in Georgia, a presidential election year that saw former President Donald Trump turn the tables on Democrats in the Peach State. But Republican Trump’s victory four years after President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to capture Georgia’s 16 electoral ...