Georgia House of Representatives and Senate Pass New Bills on Education
Both wings of the Georgia General Assembly passed bills focusing on young Georgians and their education. The House Education Committee and the Senate Youth and Education Committee passed a number of different bills.
The Senate Youth and Education Committee was first and started with House Bill (HB) 307. This bill includes provisions on students who are at risk of not achieving grade level reading proficiency due to dyslexia.
HB 307 cleans up outdated language used in the law that does not align with new scientific standards. It passed unanimously to the Rules Committee.
The second to be passed was HB 371. This bill increases the state's maximum authorization of capital outlay funding from $300 to $375 million.
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State Department Continues Combatting Iran's Illicit Oil Sales
The US Department of State recently announced new sanctions against certain commercial entities for aiding Iran’s global illicit oil sales.
Sanctions target a crude oil and petroleum products storage terminal in the port of Huizhou in China for allegedly receiving nearly one million barrels of Iranian crude oil.
The sanctions come as the State Department leads a fierce international fight to prevent Iran’s circumvention of US sanctions on Iran’s oil sector.
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Rep. Barry Loudermilk - Sen. Schumer, Democrat Party leader in the U.S. Senate, is outraged that hardworking Americans want to keep more of the money they've earned. The left is out-of-touch with the American people.
Rep. Hank Johnson - Trump and Musk taking a chain saw to the Department of Education today will have real, devastating effects on young people in my district and all across America. Of the 138 schools in GA-04, 123 of them are Title I. This is a despicable and targeted attack on our youth.
Gov. Brian Kemp - Thank you to the State Senate for supporting our effort to bring Georgia’s income tax rate down another 20 basis points. While other states are raising taxes, we’re cutting them and returning billions of dollars back to hardworking Georgians!
Georgia House of Representatives and Senate Pass New Bills on Education — By Dome Politics' James Swafford — Both wings of the Georgia General Assembly passed bills focusing on young Georgians and their education. The House Education Committee and the Senate Youth and Education Committee passed a number of different bills.The Senate Youth and Education Committee was first and started with House Bill (HB) 307. This bill includes provisions on students who are at risk of not achieving grade level reading proficiency due to dyslexia.
State Department Continues Combatting Iran's Illicit Oil Sales — By Dome Politics' Mateo Guillamont — The US Department of State recently announced new sanctions against certain commercial entities for aiding Iran’s global illicit oil sales. Sanctions target a crude oil and petroleum products storage terminal in the port of Huizhou in China for allegedly receiving nearly one million barrels of Iranian crude oil.
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The Fuzzy Peach is written by Javier Manjarres and Jackson Bakich.
