Grand Old Parties: Special interests shower Republicans with perks and parties in the Big Apple

By Meredith O'Brien

Cowboy boots and rock stars. Tuxedos and champagne. Batting practice in a Major League Baseball stadium and coveted tickets to the U.S. Open

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"… ($25-100)Virginia, Alabama, District of Columbia, Tennessee, Maryland and Georgia delegationsNYC Host Committee, NYC & Co., New York TimesBeauty and the …"

"… Yachting club“Camp Sunshine” Atlanta camp for children with cancer and Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, member of Senate Rules CommitteeAFLAC insurance a …"

"… e and Southern Company, a utility concernUnknown“Rocking the Apple . . . Georgia Style.” Will feature country western singer Martina McBride for private …"

New numbers in Senate still may not add up for renewables

By Marianne Lavelle

There’s an early energy test coming for the new Congress. The question: Will lawmakers follow the lead of 29 states and the District of Colu

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"… add votes, since Republicans Ted Stevens of Alaska and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia have been RPS opponents. Embattled Minnesota incumbent Norm Coleman has be …"

U.S. greenhouse gases go up, Bush talking point goes down

By Marianne Lavelle

The Bush administration today lost one of its main talking points for defending its approach of relying on voluntary measures to address cli

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"… the reason for the swap to more carbon-intensive fuels was severe drought; Georgia Power alone last November saw its hydropower drop 51 percent and had to pu …"

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Mandatory one-week vacation legislation lacks congressional support

By Kat Aaron

As Congress leaves town for the July 4th recess, a timely bill is languishing in the House: the Paid Vacation Act. ...

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"… ponsored the bill, Rep. Maurice Hinchey of New York and Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, and there is no companion legislation in the Senate.Not included in the B …"

New life for the F-22 Raptor

By Nick Schwellenbach

Faced with the potential of massive job losses and under heavy lobbying pressure earlier this year, the powerful House Armed Services Commit

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"… ng efforts. The new defense acquisition reform law contains a provision by Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss — a fierce backer of the F-22, which …"

Should foreign contractors be held accountable in U.S. courts?

By Nick Schwellenbach

A judge’s decision that his court was not the proper venue for a dispute between a Kuwaiti firm and the family of an American soldier killed

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"… William S. Duffey Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled last Friday that a dispute between the family of Army Lt. Col. Domin …"

"… rward operating units based at the Army’s Ft. McPherson, in the state of Georgia. The judge’s decision overturned an earlier $4.9 million award to the Ba …"

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The U.S. military delves into cultural intelligence in Iran

By Nick Schwellenbach

PaperTrail has obtained an exclusive copy of the military’s field guide for cultural intelligence for possible military operations in Iran,

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"… hina, Taiwan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the Andean Ridge, Georgia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and more countries. Get started on your c …"

As America votes, it ain’t pretty

By Sarah Laskow

Election junkies who’ve already checked every poll three, four, 10 times over can now monitor the travails of individual voters, thanks to t

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"… chines.At 10:28 this morning, for example, came a report that a first-time Georgia voter was told information was missing from her registration form. She was …"

Georgia beefs up disclosure

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2005 — In the last vote of this year's session, the Georgia General Assembly on Thursday, March 31, passed House Bill 4

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"… egislation is signed into law. …"

"… ative disclosure laws and lobbyist disclosure laws. The Center will update Georgia's score and ranking when the legislation is signed into law. …"

Anti-whistleblower track record continues

By Nick Schwellenbach

One of two whistleblowers to win even a temporary victory before a government whistleblower review board under a Bush administration appoint

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"… ent Agency, Pedeleose oversees Lockheed Martin’s operations in Marietta, Georgia, such as the Air Force C-130J cargo plane. Earlier in the decade he blew t …"

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