Speaker David Ralston appoints several new committee chairmen in the Georgia House . . .
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun of Athens, one of the most conservative members of Congress, will have Republican primary opposition next year . . .
Doug Collins has outraised Martha Zoller in the early stages of the 9th Congressional District race; a look at the money flowing in to the other congressional races . . .
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Mac Collins, who’s been out of elective office since 2004, says he is considering the possibility of a race for congress against Paul Broun . . .
Candidates are starting to line up to run in Georgia’s redrawn congressional districts, now that the redistricting plan has been passed . . .
Will the new congressional maps prompt Rep. Paul Broun to run for another term in the 9th District rather than stay in the 10th District? Stay tuned . . .
Although Georgia’s new congressional plan was drawn up by legislative Republicans, there are some GOP congressmen who will be displeased with it because of the way their districts were reconfigured . . .
There is supposedly a debt deal that’s been finalized in Washington, but it still needs to get votes for passage in the U.S. House and Senate; U.S. Rep. John Barrow has a large bullseye on his back as the redistricting session nears . . .
Georgia’s two most conservative U.S. House members, Paul Broun and Tom Graves, remain steadfast in their opposition to Speaker John Boehner’s debt bill . . .
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun said the price of his vote to raise the federal debt ceiling will be the abolition of the federal departments of education and energy . . .