The one GOP "yes" vote Tuesday on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's health care bill is no predictor of how Republicans will view the bill that comes to the Senate floor, senators from Tennessee and Georgia said.
NASHVILLE — Nearly half of Tennesseans believe President Barack Obama is a socialist, while one out of three think he wasn’t even born in the United States, according to a poll released Wednesday.
When Tennessee voters step into the voting booths next year, religious faith will be a factor in whose name they mark on the ballot, about half of the 2010 gubernatorial candidates said.
NASHVILLE — Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s endorsement of a limited individual insurance mandate as part of health care reform isn’t going down well with some conservatives.
WASHINGTON -- Flags displaying the message "Don't tread on me" mingled with flags from virtually every state in the union -- Georgia and Tennessee included -- as tens of thousands marched Saturday to the Capitol building to protest federal spending.
WASHINGTON -- Car horns and police sirens blared Friday evening as hundreds gathered along the sidewalks outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center to counter-protest against protesters who have been demonstrating outside the hospital for nearly five years.
NASHVILLE -- While applauding President Barack Obama's effort to reframe health care reform as a "moral imperative," Gov. Phil Bredesen said Thursday he remains concerned Congress may wind up imposing new costs on states to help fund the proposal.
On a conference call from just over the border in Pakistan, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said he was quite impressed with what he saw of Thursday's elections in Afghanistan.
The six senators for Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia -- all Republicans -- have made their decisions on how they will vote regarding the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Five say they'll vote against her, while one says he'll vote in favor of the appointment.
U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Wednesday issued a statement saying he will not vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
NASHVILLE — U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., sharply criticized U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor Saturday, but the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is not ready to say how he will vote on her in committee on Tuesday.
NASHVILLE -- Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, called a Republican Senate colleague's affair with a 22-year-old legislative intern "unconscionable" on Saturday and said, "I'm not going to say that resignation from the Senate is going to be out of order."
U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., announced that the fiscal year 2010 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act includes $101.4 million to improve Tennessee's military infrastructure.