Tennessee budget breakdown highlights Lee’s spending priorities
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday introduced his proposed $55.6 billion fiscal year 2023-24 budget and priorities. Here is a breakdown of his spending priorities:
Tennessee Gov. Lee unveils $55.6 billion budget plan, seeks $3 billion injection into road spending
Declaring Tennessee is at a “pivotal moment” in its 226-year history, Gov. Bill Lee on Monday challenged lawmakers during his fifth annual State of the State address to help him transform state highways and interstates, urging the General Assembly to plow an additional $3 billion into transportation in his proposed $55.6 billion 2023-2024 spending plan.
Could vehicle-based mileage fees make up for shortages in Tennessee’s falling fuel taxes for roads?
With state fuel tax revenues already failing to keep up with Tennessee's current highway needs, let alone future demands and pressures, state senators this week heard testimony from experts advocating the state consider implementing mileage-based user fees on a pay-per-mile basis.
Tennessee Democratic lawmakers say attorney general isn’t fighting for state’s gun carry law
Agreement would give all 18- to 20-year-olds gun rights, not just those with military service
Political notebook: When did Tennessee last have a ‘cardinal’ in the U.S. House?
This much was already known: When U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann was appointed earlier this month by his Republican peers as chairman of the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, the congressman from Ooltewah who in January began his seventh term broke a long-time drought for a Tennessee congressman heading a powerful Appropriations panel chairmanship.
Georgia US Rep. Greene’s effort to curb president’s use of oil reserve passes on second try
File this one under, "If at first you don't succeed, try again."
Tennessee settles lawsuit over 18- to 20-year-olds and guns
Tennesseans aged 18 to 20 will be allowed to carry concealed firearms in public under the state's permitless gun carry law after the state settled a lawsuit filed by a California gun rights group saying the law's age restrictions on younger adults were unconstitutional.
Gov. Lee says Tennessee ‘leading the nation’ as he is sworn in for second term
Declaring Tennessee the greatest state in the country, Gov. Bill Lee said Saturday the state is leading the nation in areas ranging from economic development and low taxes to his new education funding formula as the Republican was sworn into office for his second and final term.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will be sworn in again Saturday and more political news
Privately funded first-term events, festivities tab hit $1.74 million
Georgia U.S. Rep. Greene on her new House committee appointments: ‘Joe Biden, be prepared’
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Rome, Georgia, Republican firebrand who was stripped of her House committee assignments two years ago by Democrats, was assigned to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee as well as Homeland Security committee on Tuesday and immediately put Democratic President Joe Biden on notice.
