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State GOP lawmakers form ‘Obamacare repeal and replace task force’

Congressional Republicans are doing their best to ensure the Affordable Healthcare Act will be repealed at the federal level. Here in Georgia, state GOP lawmakers are doing their best to make sure the state is ...

Georgia GOP leaders sidestep anti-LGBT ‘religious freedom’ legislation

No matter what the forecast held, state legislators were required by law to brave snow, sleet, hail and high water to be under the Gold Dome this morning to kick off the 2017 session. Notably absent from the...

Georgia’s LGBT legislators prepare for 2017 General Assembly session

There’s an air of anticipation in downtown Atlanta this month as the 2017 General Assembly session gets underway. “With the addition of and I this legislative session, we’re representing over 200,000 indivi...

State senator aims to continue ‘religious freedom’ bill push despite loss of leadership position

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported just before the end of 2016 that Georgia’s Senate Republican Caucus met in a closed-door meeting to discuss merging its two judiciary committees. If the merger is appro...

Punches and counter punches: A timeline of Georgia’s ‘religious freedom’ bill fight

The battle over Georgia's so-called “religious freedom” bills began relatively quietly, but the introduction of a surprise opponent to the anti-LGBT bills and a jagged momentum shift back and forth over the fin...