Jamie Dupree
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Washington, DC, United States
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House passes federal health care, tax and climate change bill
The U.S. House delivered another major legislative victory for President Joe Biden on Friday. The vote was 220-207. Every Georgia Democrat voted for the package, while all state Republicans opposed it. The measure now goes to the president for his signature. → Read More
Opinion: After abortion defeat, Democrats in Congress try to play offense
For years, Democrats have been routinely put on the defensive by Republicans over hot-button social issues commonly referred to by the phrase “God, gays and guns.” → Read More
Opinion: GOP cry of ‘America first’ returns over aid to Ukraine
Up until this week, there were only a handful of Republicans in Congress who openly opposed American military assistance for Ukraine to help fight off a Russian invasion — but that number jumped dramatically Tuesday night when the U.S. House easily approved a nearly $40 billion aid package. → Read More
Opinion: Putin goes back to the U.S.S.R.
While Democrats and Republicans in Congress wrestle over how best to respond to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the unsettling possibility is that Vladimir Putin is ready not only to take over Ukraine, but directly assault the post-Cold War stability which has preserved peace in Europe. → Read More
Opinion: Infrastructure becomes the legislative Christmas tree
With the U.S. Senate unable to approve a sweeping social policy package backed by President Joe Biden, Georgia Democrats still had something to tout just in time for Christmas as money started flowing from a new bipartisan infrastructure law. → Read More
Opinion: Senate infrastructure deal erases Georgia transportation earmarks
When the U.S. House approved a major infrastructure bill back on July 1, Georgia Democrats heralded the inclusion of over three dozen specific transportation projects for metro Atlanta and other areas of Georgia. → Read More
Opinion: Georgia Democrats eager to act on Biden infrastructure plan
The phrase “infrastructure week” became a running joke during the Trump administration, as President Donald Trump kept promising but never came close to delivering on a major legislative package for new roads and bridges. → Read More
Opinion: Elections have consequences
As a series of U.S. House committees voted this week on the details of a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, the main reason the quick aid effort from Democrats was even happening was because of Georgia voters. → Read More
Opinion: Georgia has singular part in impeachment drama
Only one state plays a central role in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump: Georgia. → Read More
Jamie Dupree: An inauguration unlike any other
Washington reporter Jamie Dupree is covering the inauguration today of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. → Read More
After 32 years, one chapter comes to a close – 102.3 KRMG
32 years ago this week I walked over to the building which houses C-SPAN just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol to interview for this job. It worked out better than anyone could have imagined. I covered eight campaigns for President, logging thousands of miles on the road. I checked in on House and Senate races around the nation. I covered hurricanes. The Nine Eleven attacks. Supreme Court… → Read More
Virus threat shrinks plans for Biden Inaugural – 102.3 KRMG
While workers are busily putting together the grandstands on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol for next month’s Inauguration of Joe Biden as President, Congressional officials have made the decision to drastically limit the size of the event because of the Coronavirus. In a statement, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said “this global pandemic and the rise in COVID-19 cases warranted a difficult decision… → Read More
Top Senate Republican publicly acknowledges Biden win – 102.3 KRMG
Six weeks after the 2020 November elections, and a day after the vote of the Electoral College, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday finally publicly acknowledged the victory of President-Elect Joe Biden, as GOP Senators began to pull themselves away from President Donald Trump’s insistence that he had actually won re-election. “The Electoral College has spoken,” McConnell said in a… → Read More
Michigan Republican leaves GOP over Trump election fight – 102.3 KRMG
On the same day that the Electoral College confirmed the White House victory of Joe Biden, retiring Rep. Paul Mitchell of Michigan told leading Republicans that he was leaving the GOP and becoming an Independent for the final days of his Congressional career, fed up with President Donald Trump’s never-ending effort to subvert Biden’s victory. “I could no longer be associated with a Republican… → Read More
Senate ignores veto threat, approves major defense bill – 102.3 KRMG
Joining the House in voting for a yearly defense policy bill by a broad bipartisan margin, the Senate dared President Donald Trump on Friday to veto the plan, which the President opposes in part because it allows the Pentagon to change the names of military bases named after Confederate soldiers. The vote was 84 to 13, well more than the two-thirds of the Senate needed to override a veto. “I am… → Read More
Swing states tell Supreme Court to toss out Texas election challenge – 102.3 KRMG
Four states targeted by a GOP lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump fired back at the state of Texas on Thursday, telling the Supreme Court in a series of legal briefs that Texas has no business telling another state how to conduct its elections. “The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never… → Read More
Trump brief to Supreme Court misleads on absentee voting – 102.3 KRMG
As President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to join an unprecedented election lawsuit by a group of GOP states, the arguments presented on behalf of the President again pressed a series of false claims about the election process, in a continued attack on absentee by mail voting. “Our County is deeply divided in ways that arguably has not been seen since the election of… → Read More
Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to block Biden win – 95.5 WSB
Hours after President Donald Trump made an unprecedented public appeal for GOP legislators and the nation’s highest court to step in and reverse Joe Biden’s election victory, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a GOP effort designed to stop Pennsylvania from certifying Biden’s win in the Keystone State. The decision was issued without a dissent from any Justice. “This is as strong a… → Read More
Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to block Biden win – 102.3 KRMG
Hours after President Donald Trump made an unprecedented public appeal for GOP legislators and the nation’s highest court to step in and reverse Joe Biden’s election victory, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a GOP effort designed to stop Pennsylvania from certifying Biden’s win in the Keystone State. The decision was issued without a dissent from any Justice. “This is as strong a… → Read More
Breaking GOP silence, Georgia Republicans give Trump bad news – 102.3 KRMG
Five weeks after the 2020 elections, most elected Republicans around the nation remain silent in public about the re-election defeat of President Donald Trump, except for in the state of Georgia, where top GOP leaders have spoken out more forcefully in recent days, making it clear that the results show Joe Biden was indeed the winner of the Peach State. “It has been unbelievable to see the… → Read More