Georgia Mountain Beacon

Co-Sponsors Amendments to Repeal Entire Health Care Law, Repeal Individual Mandate, Repeal Medical Device Tax  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., continued his fight this week to repeal President Obama’s terribly flawed health care law, co-sponsoring three amendments that would repeal the entire health care law, repeal the individual mandate tax and repeal a medical device tax included in the... Read more

Urges Administration to Empower Private Sector, Take a ‘Timeout’ from Burdensome Regulations, Give Private Sector Job Creators Certainty Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., denounced President Obama’s comment from last week that “the private sector is doing fine.” Isakson said he has heard just the opposite form his Georgia constituents who have shared their struggles with crushing government regulations and... Read more

Says Obama’s Board Has ‘Run Amok’ In Efforts To Tip The Scales In Favor of Unions Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today lambasted the decision by a federal labor board to approve the formation of a mini union of employees within the shoe department at the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York, and he called on the Senate... Read more

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., continued his fight to stop the Administration from tipping the scales in favor of labor unions, voting to have the Senate debate on a resolution to block the National Labor Relations Board from implementing its “ambush election” rule, which is designed to speed up union representation elections in hopes of helping labor unions... Read more

Pushes to Enact Fair Tax, Repeal Death Tax Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., called on Congress to enact a fairer, simpler tax system at a tax-day rally on Capitol Hill. Isakson has co-sponsored legislation to repeal the tax code and to establish a national sales tax during every session of Congress since being elected to the U.S. Senate. Isakson was... Read more

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have written to Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., calling for an oversight hearing “to determine whether the administration has fully lived up to the expectations raised and commitments made in order to garner support” for the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction... Read more

Says United States Must Not Waver on Commitment to Missile Defense Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., last week on the Senate floor demanded an explanation from President Obama over his comments to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” on issues such as missile defense after the 2012 presidential election. The president was unaware that... Read more

Bipartisan resolution demands Sudanese government stop blocking deliveries of food aid to quarter of a million people at risk of starvation Washington, D.C. – Four senators introduced a sense-of-the-Senate resolution demanding the government of Sudan allow immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to the Blue Nile and South Kordofan regions where hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of starvation. The bipartisan... Read more

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Isakson addressed the President and the Senate last Friday with this address: Mr. President, I am proud to stand here today on International Women’s Day, the 8th day of March, 2012, to pay tribute to women around the world but also to acknowledge that women around the world, on Monday, March 12, will celebrate the... Read more

‘The Only Thing You Can Do With This Budget Is Start Over’ Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today called the president’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 a “budget for failure,” saying that the president’s plan keeps the federal government on a path of reckless spending and unsustainable debt. The president claims that his plan will reduce the deficit by... Read more

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., strongly criticized the Obama Administration over three recent decisions by its federal labor boards to impose job-killing labor policies. Isakson is the ranking Republican on the Senate Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee that has jurisdiction over labor issues. Isakson spoke on the Senate floor ... Read more