It feels like every year my family celebrates the birthday of Edward Lindsey. This was an exciting year for my father, he served as legal counsel for the Brian Kemp gubernatorial campaign, traveled to Africa for three weeks to visit my twin in the peace corps, and grew a beard for the first time in
With political theater controlling the culture in Washington, it can be nice to know the quieter work of government can still be done. The Sam Farr and Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018 passed the Senate on Monday, September 24th, 2018 and heads to the White House. This bill seeks to improve volunteer
Michael (Mike) Brown was confirmed today by the U.S. Senate to a seat on the Northern District of Georgia bench, by a vote of 92-0. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts had listed this open seat as a “Judicial Emergency” because the seat has been vacant for 1270 days, the 10th longest running vacancy in
The House unanimously voted to extend a nuclear tax credit on Tuesday. This legislation, H.R. 1551 (introduced by Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC)), would lift the deadline for nuclear reactors to be working by 2020 in order to receive the existing tax credit. The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate. The bill has particular importance to Georgia and
Via the AJC…Georgia congressman, Barry Loudermilk and his Chief of Staff Rob Adkerson, are safe after ball field shooting in D.C. suburb. Horrific reports of “a number of congressmen and congressional staffers lying on the ground, and at least one of them was wounded.” These congressmen and staffers are good, kind-hearted, people. Many of the
Political gamblers heavily favor a narrow Ossoff win, with record high turnout. With the eyes of the nation on this election, 100,000s of bets have been placed on who will win, by what margin, and with what turnout. In March, we covered the political gaming site, PredictIt, and its open bets at the time on
How many times have you heard a politician promise to raise tax revenue, without raising taxes? Often it seems far-fetched and outside of the politician’s control, and often it is. But, in Georgia, that is what’s happening right now. Last week, Gov. Nathan Deal released the May 2017 tax collection numbers. At the end of
The CHRONIC Care Act of 2017, introduced by Sen. Isakson (R-Ga), Sen. Hatch (R-Utah), Sen. Wyden (D-Ore) and Sen. Warner (D-Va), passed unanimously out of the Senate Finance Committee today and heads to a full Senate vote. The bipartisan legislation could have a major impact on curtailing the cost of Medicare, as the legislation seeks to
Time to collect all the 3rd floor gossip under the Gold Dome, because prediction markets—more commonly and less accurately referred to as political gambling sites—are open for the 6th congressional districts upcoming special election and Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s Secretary of Agriculture confirmation process. Prediction markets have been shown, by some research, to be
With the Trump administration taking control in Washington D.C. last Friday, there will be a new debate on the sanctions against Cuba, and a softening of the trade restrictions could have a big impact on the developing humanitarian and financial relationship between Georgia businesses and the Cuban people. However, the new administration will need to
