Official Press Releases
ATLANTA (July 24, 2009) –Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) this week received the Georgia Forestry Association’s 2009 Legislative Achievement Award during the group’s annual convention in Savannah.
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By Georgia Senator Judson Hill
As Congress races to get health care reform legislation passed, we must ask ourselves “what’s the rush?” President Obama would like Congress to pass his health care reform plan before the August Congressional recess. Luckily, that won’t happen. He took six months to pick out the family dog, so why take only a few weeks for health care reform? The Congressional Budget Office estimated Obama’s plan will cost our country more than $1 trillion in addition to severely crippling America’s free market health care system.
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PHILADELPHIA (July 24, 2009) – Sen. Renee Unterman (R-Buford) this week was named chairman of the Human Services and Welfare Committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) at the organization’s annual legislative summit in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2009) – Sen. Don Balfour (R-Gwinnett) today took office as president of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) at the organization’s annual legislative summit in Philadelphia. The first legislator from Georgia to be elected to NCSL office, Balfour will lead the bipartisan Conference in serving the nation’s state lawmakers and advocating for their interests before Congress.
By Sen. Chip Pearson
ATLANTA (July 16, 2009) – Despite President Barack Obama’s utopian fantasy to provide “free” health care to all Americans, Congress cannot help but make someone pay the price for such reform. Under the proposal from House Democratic leaders, approximately $1 trillion would be paid for by taxing high income earning families, businesses and medical providers. The Senate’s $600 billion proposal is not as high, but represents costly government bureaucracy by requiring everyone to have health insurance and employers contribute to the cost. Both plans levy expense on the taxpayer, be it affluent Americans today or the middle class tomorrow. In my opinion, taxes have never made anyone wealthy.
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