Saxby Chambliss

Who's For Congressional Insider Trading? An Inside Trader

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Investments, Video, Congress, Insider Trading, Richard Burr, Natural Gas Bill, Stocks, Natural Gas Industry, Natural Gas, Saxby Chambliss, Eric Cantor, STOCK Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Burr's vocal opposition to the STOCK Act raised some eyebrows in Washington this week, and with good reason. Burr, a No...

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GOP Senator: Republicans Could Bend On Taxes If Super Committee 'Goes Big'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Deficit, Video, Super Committee, Budget Cuts, Dick Durbin, Deficit Reduction, Mike Crapo, Go Big, Saxby Chambliss, Republicans Tax Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers suggested Republicans would be willing to raise certain taxes to shrink the deficit, as long as the debt...

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Watch: U.S. Officials: Al Qaeda On Brink of Collapse

Posted 09.26.2011

The killing of Osama bin Laden and seven years of drone strikes against Al Qaeda's leadership have left the organization near collapse according to U....

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Al Qaeda On Brink Of Collapse, U.S. Officials Say

The Washington Post | Greg Miller | Posted 09.25.2011

U.S. counterterrorism officials are increasingly convinced that the killing of Osama bin Laden and the toll of seven years of CIA drone strikes have p...

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Unions Go After Gang Of Six Plan: 'It Would Kill Jobs'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Gang of Six Debt Plan, Tom Coburn, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, Spending Cuts, Kent Conrad, Debt Limit, Dick Durbin, Mark Warner, Mike Crapo, Gang of Six, Medicare, Saxby Chambliss, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Unions are coming down hard on the so-called "Gang of Six" deficit-cutting plan, blasting the bipartisan proposal with a harsh ad set to...

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Gang Of Six Unveils Debt-Reduction Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.18.2011

WASHINGTON -- More than half the Senate was convened early Tuesday morning by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) for a briefing on a deficit-reduction plan bein...

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'Gang Of Six' Move Closer To Deficit Deal

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Tom Coburn, Joe Biden Deficit Talks, Gang of Six Deficit, Gang of Six Debt, Tom Coburn Gang of Six, Obama Deficit Commission, Gang of Six, Joe Biden, Saxby Chambliss, Saxby Chambliss Gang of Six, Barack Obama Deficit, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A member of the "Gang of Six" senators working on a bipartisan plan to wrestle the deficit under control said Wednesday that the group h...

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All Eyes On 'Gang Of Six' As Deficit Deal Negotiations Continue

Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Tom Coburn, Debt Ceiling, Saxby Chambliss, Deficit, Gang of 6, Dick Durbin, Deficit Deal, Debt Limit, Kent Conrad, Mike Crapo, Gang of Six, Mark Warner, Debt Ceilling Vote, Debt Limit Deal, Debt Ceiling Deal, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- They have met in almost total secrecy for months, holed up in an office on Capitol Hill: three Republican and three Democratic senat...

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GANG OF SIX: Bipartisan Senate Group Seeks Debt-Reduction Plan

nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Debt Plan, Saxby Chambliss, Gang of Six Debt Plan, Obama Debt, Deficit, Dick Durbin, Senate Debt, Gang of Six Debt, Senate Deficit, 112th Congress, United States Deficit, Budget Deficit, Mark Warner, Deficit Plan, Obama Deficit, Politics News

Days after President Obama called for forming a bipartisan group in Congress to begin negotiating a $4 trillion debt-reduction package, the parties ha...

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Senate Republicans Threatening To Make Harry Reid And Dems Go It Alone On Raising Debt Ceiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, National Debt, Mark Warner, Dick Durbin, Mike Crapo, Harry Reid, Saxby Chambliss, Kent Conrad, Gang of Six, Politics News

With many Republicans agreeing with Democrats that raising the debt ceiling is a simple necessity, some think the GOP is left with little negotiating ...

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NPR: The Saga Continues

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, House of Representatives, Npr, Politics, Robert Frost, National Public Radio, Lloyd Doggett, Pro-Publica, Gop, Right Wing, US Army, Saxby Chambliss, Daniel Zwerdling, Republican Party, Public Broadcasting, Purple Heart, Media News

The modestly-paid but dedicated journalists at NPR are part of a forty year history that has given listeners a deeper and richer portrait of America and the world than any other broadcast news organization in the country.

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The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, Social Security, Erskine Bowles, George Orwell, Mark Warner, Ministry of Truth, Moment of Truth Project, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Alan Simpson, Saxby Chambliss, Peter Peterson, Gang of Six, Politics News

Every Orwellian campaign needs a compliant press, and the Social Security Slashers led by Pete Peterson have been particularly lucky (or effective) in this area.

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Slash Mob: Secret Senate Gang Weighing Budget Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saxby Chambliss, Mike Crapo, Deficit, Dick Durbin, 2012 Budget Cuts, 2012 Budget, Budget Cuts, 2012 Senate Budget Cuts, Senate Budget Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators that has been meeting behind the scenes during the past several months is emerging as the focal point in ...

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Help Not Wanted?

Dan Rather | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dan Rather Reports, Dan Rather, United Farm Workers, Stephen Colbert, Immigration, Ufw, Saxby Chambliss, Business News

I have no interest in bickering over the strategic wisdom of Stephen Colbert's appearance before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, but I do have a bone to pick with his message.

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Saxby Chambliss: Anti-Gay Slur Likely Originated From My Office

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saxby Chambliss Office Investigation, Saxby Chambliss Office Anti-Gay Slur, Saxby Chambliss Staffer Investigation, Chambliss Office Anti-Gay Slur, Chambliss Office Investigation, Saxby Chambliss Controversy, Chambliss Aide Investigation, Chambliss Staffer Investigation, Saxby Chambliss Anti-Gay Slur, Saxby Chambliss, Chambliss Anti-Gay Slur, Politics News

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) said Wednesday that a derogatory slur left on an Internet discussion over the rights of gays to serve in the U.S. mi...

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Did Saxby Chambliss Staffer Make Anti-Gay Slur?

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' office is investigating whether one of his staffers left a derogatory slur on an Internet discussion over the rights of gay...

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Financial Reform: Why The Bill May Actually Be Getting STRONGER

tnr.com | Noam Scheiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dodd Bill, Blance Lincoln, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, End Users, Derivatives Reform, Banks, Derivatives Bill, Financial Lobby, Saxby Chambliss, Senate Agriculture Committee, Business News

The reason the recent developments are so remarkable is that all reforms tend to weaken as they get closer to passage, as legislators hash out comprom...

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Democrats Hold The Line Against Wall Street Derivatives Lobbying

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Blanche Lincoln, The Financial Fix, Financial Reform, Derivatives, Derivatives Reform, Wall Street Reform, Saxby Chambliss, Politics News

Senate Democrats are "resisting a last-ditch lobbying push from big Wall Street firms" and "moving toward a sweeping revamp of financial regulation th...

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Wall Street Reform Package Is Being Toughened By Public Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, The Financial Fix, Derivatives, Senate Banking Committee, Senate Financial Reform, Al Franken, Wall Street Reform, Federal Reserve, Bernie Sanders, Chris Dodd, Jeff Merkley, Saxby Chambliss, Amy Klobuchar, Politics News

Battling to delay Wall Street reform from hitting the Senate floor, Republicans worried that once the bill was being debated in public, it would be ha...

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Focus on the Mission: Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Rachel Laser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lesbian, George W. Bush, Sexual Orientation, Admiral Mike Mullen, Iraq, Congress, Gay, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Military, Independents, Robert Gates, Moderates, Americans, Afghanistan, Saxby Chambliss, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Republicans, Politics News

They serve in Iraq. They fight in Afghanistan. Their names are etched in marble at Arlington National Cemetery. And three out of four Americans believe they shouldn't be forced to lie to serve the country.

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Campaign 2010: Déjà Vu All Over Again

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, 1994 Elections, Charles Rangel, 9/11, Saxby Chambliss, Max Cleland, Newt Gingrich, United States Senate, Democratic Party, 2002 Elections 2006 Elections, Republican Party, United States House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Home News

Michael Winship Comparisons are odious, the old saying goes, and certainly Democrats are dealing with some smelly, stinky realities as they stare dow...

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John McCain's No Longer a Hero: His Stance on Patriotic Gays is Shameful and Un-American

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Russnow, Connecticut, Jeff Sessions, Anderson Cooper, Iraq, Mike Mullen, Cbs, Democratic Party, Missouri, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Msnbc, Nato, David Gergen, Gays in the Military, Robert Gates, Gay Rights, Maine, Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Saxby Chambliss, Republican Party, Carl Levin, Illinois, Abc, C-Span, John McCain, Senate Republicans, Senate Armed Services Committee, Nbc, Twitter, Ram Productions International, Roger Wicker, Democrats, Facebook, Barack Obama, Susan Collins, Cnn, Gay Marriage, Michigan, Michael Russnow, Youtube, Fox News, Afghanistan, Joe Lieberman, Claire McCaskill, Gop, Politics News

Watching the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, I couldn't help feeling relief John McCain was soundly beate...

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The Bernanke Confirmation: Incompetence, Indifference and Institutional Inertia

Mike Stark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Coburn, Bernanke, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Bernanke Confirmation, Ben Bernanke, Saxby Chambliss, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics News

The Fed is an impersonal and opaque institution. We all know it is there, but not very many people understand its role in our economy. Senators are no exception to the general rule.

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51 Votes Should Be Enough

Larry Hirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Scott Brown, Filibuster, Saxby Chambliss, Scott Brown Massachusetts, Politics News

If Republicans filibuster health care they will be overplaying their hand. Democrats should come up with a bill that reflects the principles of our party and stand up against the filibuster.

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Defense Department Opposed Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...

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