Scott Holcomb represents District 81 in the Georgia House of Representatives. Before being elected to office, he served as an attorney in the U.S. Army Jag Corps, with overseas postings in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is currently enrolled in the Executive MBA program at UGA’s Terry College of Business, and is a member of the Truman National Security Project, [...]

By: Jackson Garner Congress looks a little different these days. With the swearing in of the 113th Congress in January, 20 women entered the Senate chambers alongside their 80 male colleagues. While females make up 50 percent of the total population in the United States, it was the first time in history the representation of women in the Senate hit [...]

By: Russell Dye We all know by now that Congressman Paul Broun is running for Sen. Saxby Chambliss’s open seat in 2014. However, the real question is this: does he actually have a chance of winning the nomination or beating a Democratic challenger if nominated? GPR’s very own Chris Neill wrote on Broun’s “No-Holds-Barred” campaign, but will it work? Former [...]

By: Chris Neill Rep. Paul Broun’s status as the only candidate to have formally entered the 2014 Senate race came to an end with Rep. Phil Gingrey’s official announcement. But while others have spent time contemplating whether or not to put their names in the hat, Broun has hit the campaign trail hard. He gave a number of speeches and [...]

By: Chris Neill “I’m going to be the most electable candidate that will get in this Republican primary because I have the record and I have the will to say no to the out of control spending in Washington,” Rep. Paul Broun, M.D. (R-Ga.), boldly proclaimed during an interview with Georgia Political Review. “That’s what Georgians want, and I’m taking [...]

By: Andrew Jarnagin America is stretched thin. It is weary of war after the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan, anxious from staring down Iran in what could become another hot conflict, and hopeless given its inability to quell the growth of extremism in Pakistan, Yemen, and Mali – and all of this amidst a “pivot to Asia.” In addition, the [...]

By: Andrew Jarnagin While Obama’s victory stole most of the highlights, here’s a rundown of everything else voters decided when they went to the polls. Senate The Democratic turnout bump provided by President Obama was invaluable in the nation’s Senate races. Democratic candidates won virtually all of the competitive races, and contingent on a recount in North Dakota that supports [...]

GPR writers Khalil Farah and Ryan Prior had the chance to speak to Senator Wyche Fowler. Fowler was born in Atlanta and served as a city councilman there until being elected to the U.S. House where we served from 1977-86 until he moved on to a term in the Senate. After Congress, he was the ambassador to Saudi Arabia under [...]

By: Onica Matsika  “In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.” – Heart Warrior Chosa A day without Wikipedia, A blacked out Google, these are the preludes to how any young person would describe signs of the Apocalypse. Yet something worse than the Apocalypse is potentially on the verge: the end of the [...]