johnny isakson

Jason Hancock of The Iowa Independent, TWI’s sister site, is traveling through the state today with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), whose position as the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee makes him one of Congress’s most influential voices on this year’s contentious debate over health care reform.
Grassley is known as both a straight-shooter and [...]

Ezra Klein talks to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), the senator who wants end-of-life planning in the health care bill, and who inadvertently inspired Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), then conservative blogger Sarah Palin, to allege that the bill would put old people to death.
I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s web site [...]

The timing here isn’t coincidental, nor are the players.
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), who head the Senate Ethics Committee, introduced legislation Thursday to force lawmakers to disclose the “full and complete” details of their mortgage arrangements — including dates, rates, the range of the amount and the creditor’s name and location.
The bill [...]

Are we really going to go through this again? Immediately after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finished putting the final touches on a controversial plan to allow first-time homebuyers to use an $8,000 tax credit as a downpayment on a new home, some in the  Senate are proposing nearly doubling the credit [...]

An auspicious indicator for Chris Hill as he moves through his hearing. So far two GOP senators have questioned him, Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Johnny Isakson of Georgia. Neither has gone after him on Brownback’s North Korea-based criticisms, and instead have asked substantive questions about security contractors, the Provincial Reconstruction Teams and microloan [...]

The discrepancies in the Senate’s version of the stimulus package leaves housing advocates fuming.