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  • Congressman Searches for Endangered Snake
    Aug 19, 2010  - by Eleanor Lissitzyn WMAZ-TV (Macon) Congressman Jack Kingston visited the Mopani Preserve in Telfair County Thursday to look for a rare and endangered snake, the Eastern Indigo. Kingston says, before he wanted to work in Washington, he wanted to study reptiles. "It's golf for ... More
  • Savannahians fondly remember Bobby Thomson
    Aug 18, 2010  - by NATHAN DOMINITZ The Savannah Morning News The same day in 1951 that Bobby Thomson hit his famous "Shot Heard 'Round the World," the New Jersey reception hall for Cliff Heaslip's upcoming wedding burned down. Heaslip, a "staunch New York Giants rooter," was in the stands watching Thomson and... More
  • Remembering Bobby Thomson
    Aug 17, 2010  - By Andrew Davis WSAV-TV (Savannah) Player responsible for "Shot Heard Round the World" in 1951 passes away in Savannah Monday. A baseball legend living in Savannah. Bobby Thomson passed away Monday, but his legend lives on in baseball circles, and around the entire area. He played nearly 18... More
  • Obama Signs $26 Billion State Aid Package Into Law Article
    Aug 10, 2010  -  By Corey Boles and Martin Vaughan The Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama signed into law a package of $26 billion in aid for state and local governments, following House approval of the package Tuesday. The new law includes limits on foreign tax credits that will cost U.S. multinationa... More
  • Kingston visits Advance ATC
    Aug 4, 2010  - Johnna Pinholster The Valdosta Daily Times Congressman Jack Kingston took the controls Tuesday to help guide airplanes in to land at San Antonio International Airport. Fortunately the planes awaiting Kingston’s signal were of the digital variety used in the simulator that helps instruct student... More
  • Congressman tours south Georgia businesses
    Aug 3, 2010  - By Jade Bulecza WALB-TV (Click here for video) A south Georgia Congressman says he's standing up for small businesses. Tuesday First District Representative Jack Kingston toured JM Eagle, a pvc pipe manufacturer in Adel. He says business owners are too busy working and taking care of customer... More
  • The 22nd Amendment
    Aug 3, 2010  - By Tim Guidera WTOC-TV Click here for video Through 150 years of attentive governing and 21 Constitutional Amendments, not much about our system was left to chance or interpretation. The 22nd Amendment resolved one issue that was by officially limiting presidents to two terms in office. A matt... More
  • Self-imposed Republican moratorium leads to drop in 2011 earmark spending
    Aug 2, 2010  - By Walter Alarkon The Hill    Earmarks are way down in the 2011 spending bills being drafted in the House, thanks to new restrictions that lawmakers imposed on themselves. The amount of earmarked money is down by roughly 40 percent in three 2011 appropriations bills in the House compared to las... More
  • DJ Jack Kingston Delivers the Patriotic Jams
    Aug 2, 2010  - By Elizabeth Brotherton and Alison McSherry Roll Call What will Republican Members of Congress be listening to on their iPods over the August recess? Probably a lot of Pat Boone, courtesy of Rep. Jack Kingston. The Georgia Republican plans to send his GOP colleagues a copy of Boone’s 2003 patrio... More
  • Big Defense Budgets No Longer a Sure Thing
    Aug 2, 2010  - By John M. Donnelly CQ When the House voted last week to clear a bill containing about $37 billion in new war money, 102 Democrats voted “no” — more than triple the number who voted against last year’s war supplemental. The surge in antiwar sentiment among congressional Democrats is being drive... More