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Tenn. lawmaker: No consensus on special session
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 4 days ago
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Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams says there's no consensus among lawmakers about whether to call a special legislative session next month to delay a workers compensation law. Williams wrote in an e-mail to lawmakers on Monday that his impression...
Tags: special session, Tennessee House, Nashville, Tennessee, Jason Mumpower, Bill Ketron, Kent Williams, Labor, Politics
Tommy Burnett, former Tennessee legislator, dies at 67
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Sam Thomas �Tommy� Burnett, a former Tennessee House Majority Leader and lovable political rascal who was once re-elected while in federal prison for failing to file income tax returns, has died. He was 67. The Jamestown Democrat, an attorney and mule...
Tags: Tennessee House, Tommy Burnett, Nashville
NBC 48 Huntsville (WAFF): Entertainer Jerry Lee Lewis at legislature Monday
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The piano-pounding Rock 'N Roller known as The Killer is scheduled to appear in the Tennessee House on Monday, where lawmakers are scheduled to vote on naming a section of Getwell Road in Shelby County in his honor. Rep. Todd Curry, a Collierville Republican,...
Tennessee House approves guns in parks
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Tennesseans with state-issued permits to carry loaded handguns in public would be able to bring their weapons into all state parks and some local parks under bills passed Monday in the House. The chamber voted 71-22 to approve the measure sponsored by...
Tags: Tennessee House
Senate votes to scrap annual pay raise
Cola :: India | 8 months ago
Credibility The Senate on Tuesday voted to scrap the system that awards members of Congress an automatic cost-of-living pay raise every year. The Senate's move to abandon the annual pay increase came on a voice vote, but it doesn't mean that the pay raise is dead.
Tags: Senate, pay raise, Tennessee House, House Calendar Committee, Congress, senate votes, pay increase, TN House, living pay
Tenn House speaker denies sexual harassment allegation
Lynn :: MA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Tennessee's new House Speaker Kent Williams denied sexually harassing a female lawmaker in 2007 when he allegedly told her he would give a week's pay to see her naked. William's issued a press release as questions about the incident involving Rep. Susan...
Tags: House Speaker Kent Williams, Tennessee House, sexually harass, female lawmaker, House Republican, Tenn House
ABC 6 Knoxville (WATE): Williams rebounds after politics cost him 1st job
Elizabethton :: TN :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Politics once spelled ruin for Rep. Kent Williams' fledgling career in state government. More than three decades later, the Elizabethton Republican finds himself as Tennessee House speaker, one of the state's most powerful political offices. Williams...
Tags: Kent Williams, Tennessee House
Nashville Tennessean: Wamp is only Tenn. lawmaker who changes vote on bailout
Memphis :: TN :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Only one member of Tennessee's congressional delegation changed his vote on the $700 billion financial bailout package, which has passed the House. An earlier version of the measure failed in the House earlier this week, but the new bill passed on a 263-171...
Tags: bailout, bailout plan, 700 billion, plan, congress, bail out, billion, Tennessee House, The House
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