Johnny Isakson
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt meets with Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry (2nd R), D-MA, as Senator Johnny Isakson (L), R-GA, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (R), D-NH, look on before a meeting with the Foreign Relations Committee November 3, 2009 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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The real estate industry has been pushing to extend and expand the housing tax credit. About 1.4 million first-time homebuyers qualified for the credit through August. The National Association of Realtors estimates that 350,000 of them would not have purchased their homes without the credit.
This is probably the last extension
Guilty as sin and free as a bird. What a great country!
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First-time jobless claims expected to drop
...low of $205,100.Builders and real estate agents fear that the end of the tax credit could reverse the upward trend. Sen. Johnny Isakson , R-Ga., has introduced legislation to extend it for another year, raise it to $15,000 and make it available to all buyers.If... |more
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Jacob M. Appel: What's So Wrong with "Death Panels"?
...the past months over claims that the relatively benign end-of-life counseling provisions advanced by Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon amount to "death panels"--assertions which everyone other... |more
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No time like now to buy a new home
...be in effect no later than April 30, 2010, and close no later than June 30, 2010. “This is probably the last extension,” Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., a former real estate executive who championed the credits, told the Associated Press as the extension was being... |more
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Ethics panel admonishes Burris
...this conversation was inappropriate in its content and implications," the panel, led by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), said in its statement. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who played a key role in the seating of... |more
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Your Opinion: No partisan debate on this issue
...Congress, and they represent the voters in their states or districts. Rep. Jim Marshall and senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson are the members of Congress from Georgia, and they represent the voters in our state — concerns of Georgians. Moreover,... |more
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Senate panel passes food safety bill tied to Blakely plant
...recalls. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed a version of the bipartisan bill -- U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is a co-sponsor -- despite concerns by some lawmakers over the potential effects of errant recalls on farmers and... |more
