Carolyn Bourdeaux: “My bill would encourage partnerships and collaboration between the Federal Government, industry, labor organizations…”

The current Federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 and at $7.25 an hour it amounts to just around $15,000 per year.

For the American service men and women, the transition to civilian life can be difficult, especially so if they struggle to find a purpose upon return.

While I will not be here, I am here to express my support for strengthening Pay-As-You-Go rules and restoring a sense of fiscal discipline in Congress.

Georgia has a long history of undermining the right to vote, from the Jim Crow-era tactics of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, to more recent tactics of voter-roll purges, exact-match policies, and partisan gerrymandering.