Tom Ingram, the chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander listed as one of Washington, D.C.’s “Fabulous 50 Movers and Shakers,” is entering a governor’s race.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, gave a thumbs up to the plan outlined by the Obama administration Monday to unfreeze the credit markets and aid banks.

Tom Ingram, chief of staff to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., announced that he is leaving that position to become a consultant to Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam’s 2010 gubernatorial bid and pursue other private interests.

WASHINGTON — In his third year in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has become his one of his party’s leaders on banking and finance matters.

Tennessee and Georgia lawmakers were universal in their outrage over the $165 million in bonuses handed out by bailed-out insurer AIG, but they had different ideas on how to handle the situation.

Votes by Chattanooga-area House members were divided on a bill to tax the bonuses paid to employees by bailed-out companies, including insurer AIG.

Several Chattanooga-area companies stand to benefit from Democratic-backed legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions, potentially generating hundreds of jobs in the region, according to an environmental lobbying group.

Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., today voted in favor of a bill that would tax 90 percent of bonuses issued by companies that receive more than $5 billion in government aid.

When it comes to happiness, self-esteem, physical fitness and work satisfaction, Tennessee apparently faces a deficit.

Today, we celebrate the life of pi, that mathematical constant familiar to all geometry students.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said President Barack Obama may have proved adept at multitasking so far, but now’s the time for the president to buckle down and focus on one issue: banking.

State officials, including those from Tennessee and Georgia, received a stern warning from President Barack Obama on Thursday that the federal funds they’re receiving are not to be frittered away.

Tennessee and Georgia’s Republican members of Congress on Tuesday blasted a Democratic-sponsored bill that would make it easier for workers to join unions.

Tennessee and Georgia’s Republican members of Congress blasted a Democratic-sponsored bill introduced today that would make it easier for workers to join unions.

President Barack Obama has signaled he will cut the Army Corps of Engineers’ budget by more than half next year, putting a potential squeeze on funding for Chickamauga Lock renovations.

WASHINGTON — While the 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary in Tennessee already is in full swing, the Democratic field still is filling out.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn., said his decision not to run for governor stemmed solely from his surprise appointment to the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

Written off by a potential Republican challenger for his 2010 gubernatorial bid, Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., returned fire Friday and said his campaign is in fine shape.

U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp said Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is off-base and mistaken in his recent comments that the Chattanooga congressman’s 2010 gubernatorial bid is not gaining traction.

Chickamauga Lock, the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport and Moccasin Bend National Archaeological District are among the Chattanooga-area projects and agencies slated to share in the billions of dollars in earmarks included in the federal government’s fiscal 2009 budget.

President Barack Obama’s ambitious budget blueprint calls for sweeping reforms to health care and energy policy and already has Republicans and Democrats trading barbs over proposed spending growth.

While Tennessee officials say the state will not use funds from the economic stimulus package to boost its annual school budget, Georgia officials say their state likely will use that money to prevent an expected 3 percent cut to the education funding formula.

Tennessee and Georgia may turn down some of the economic stimulus money if the restrictions outlined in the package cause budgetary hardship in the future, the governors said Monday.

As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, Tennessee and Georgia lawmakers say the early feel-good vibes that fizzled into partisan acrimony may not bode well for future congressional debates.

Tennessee and Georgia may turn down some of the economic stimulus money targeted for unemployment benefits.

WASHINGTON — Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, in town for the National Governors Association conference, said he expects Monday’s meeting of the governors with President Barack Obama to be much more illuminating than previous years’ sessions with former President George W. Bush.

Gov. Phil Bredesen, reportedly being considered by President Barack Obama for U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, laid out his vision for universal health care in a speech Friday at Georgetown University.

WASHINGTON — Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, after delivering a speech to the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, said he is not scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama or his staff this weekend to discuss the Health and Human Services secretary vacancy.

No Chattanooga-area members of Congress changed their stances on the economic stimulus bill when the final $789 billion version came up for a vote Friday. Tennessee and Georgia Republicans, who all voted against the package, continued to hammer the bill as wasteful spending.

A legislative proposal to establish federal guidelines for coal ash storage and disposal would take significant funding and time to implement, an Interior Department official testified Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House this afternoon passed the final version of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, 246-183.

Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, called Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement Tuesday of a revamped Wall Street rescue plan “vague” and insufficient to fully deal with the financial industry’s woes.

Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, called Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement Tuesday of a revamped Wall Street rescue plan “vague” and insufficient to deal fully with the financial industry’s woes.

By voting against the $838 billion economic stimulus package Tuesday, Tennessee and Georgia senators bucked public opinion polls showing most Americans support President Barack Obama’s plan to reverse the country’s recession.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, called the announcement today of a revamped Wall Street rescue plan “vague” and insufficient to fully deal with the financial industry’s woes.

The Senate may have forged a bipartisan compromise on an $827 billion economic stimulus package, but Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., said there likely will be no compromising on his part when it comes to voting on the final bill.

As the Senate continued to wrangle Thursday with an economic stimulus package that topped $900 billion, senators from Tennessee and Georgia continued to protest the bill.

Tennessee could gain 75,000 new jobs from the economic stimulus package, while Georgia could add 113,000 jobs over the next two years, according to an estimate released Tuesday by the White House.

The National Conference of State Legislatures said Tuesday that, with states facing a combined $83 billion shortfall in their fiscal 2010 budgets, the economic stimulus package would provide welcome relief

Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn., may no longer be a 2010 gubernatorial candidate, but he said he hopes education will be the centerpiece of the future Tennessee governor’s administration.

U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn., announced Thursday night that he will not be running for governor in 2010.

President Barack Obama has made promising bipartisan overtures to Republicans on the economic stimulus bill he backs, said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn., said tonight that he will not be running for governor in 2010.

Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., said last year’s unpopular $700 billion Wall Street bailout serves as ample proof that government can’t be trusted with such massive sums of taxpayer money.

Tennessee would see an estimated $3.8 billion over this year and next, while Georgia would receive about $5.6 billion, under a proposed economic stimulus package headed to the U.S. House floor today for a vote, according to estimates and analyses of the bill’s contents.

Two Tennessee congressmen say they hope to include $25 million in the federal economic stimulus bill to help TVA’s cleanup efforts after December’s massive coal ash spill.

WASHINGTON — With a history-making inauguration and all its festivities past, President Barack Obama will enjoy some good will as he faces the task of easing the country’s woes, lawmakers say.

Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., said the surprise election of state Rep. Kent Williams, R-Elizabethton, to speaker of the Tennessee House should serve as a reminder to all Republicans that no lead is safe.

As the U.S. House takes up a $825 billion stimulus plan, locals say they’re itching for the $500 to $1,000 tax cut promised by President Barack Obama.

For John Taylor and his merry band of 239 traveling Chattanoogans, Inauguration Day started early, with a 1:30 a.m. wake-up call at their hotel in Harrisburg, Pa.