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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State Rep. Jason Mumpower is one step closer to being elected Tennessee's first Republican House speaker in four decades after his GOP colleagues unanimously nominated him for the chamber's top post on Monday.
The day after their surprising takeover of the state legislature, House Republicans held a little media event outside the Capitol to try to appear like grown-ups who can be trusted with power. To Democrats, it must have seemed like the Star Wars bar scene come to terrifying life&md...
With Democrats pushing a bailout of the automobile industry, Tennessee and Georgia Republican senators appear unlikely to support such a measure, though they said they would wait to see what specific proposals are unveiled today.
In 2009, Take the Bus? The University of Tennessee has already been told to cut its budget and more cuts are expected as the Legislature meets to pass next year’s state budget with an expected $800 million shortfall.
Leaders of the new Republican majority in the Tennessee legislature unveiled an unprecedented new process, more open to public view, for the legislature's selection of the state comptroller, state treasurer and secretary of state.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Some moderate Republicans are urging the party to jettison social conservatives in order to reclaim the White House and Congress, but former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee believes it would be a mistake -- and result in even more losses.
NASHVILLE — Hamilton County Republican lawmakers say they want to ensure GOP candidates for Tennessee secretary of state, comptroller and treasurer will honor the state’s economic commitments to the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga if elected by the General Assembly.
Robin Smith and others of the Tennessee Republican party need to face the fact that Republican candidates, national party, supporting organizations and members actions during the campaign have been offensive.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal magistrate is postponing the trial of a student charged with breaking into the e-mail account of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
The Boston Tea Party may sound like a piece of American history, but it's also a political party spun off from the Libertarian Party, with a slogan — "Time to party like it's 1773" — and a presidential candidate on the ballot in Colorado, Florida and Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The complexity of a computer crime trumped the need for a speedy trial Friday in the case of the son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker charged with breaking into the e-mail account of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
