As the Republican-controlled Tennessee General Assembly prepares to return Wednesday to the state Capitol - where GOP lawmakers have called themselves into a special session to target vaccination requirements and mask mandates - one GOP lawmaker is denouncing what he called an "evil" federal government.
When Tennessee lawmakers head back to Nashville this week for another special session, the Republican supermajority hopes to fight back against a federal mandate that larger employers must require employee vaccination against COVID-19.
Although she raised the issue during the Ford special session, her efforts would only affect future projects
Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday approved and sent to Gov. Bill Lee his nearly $900 million incentive and infrastructure legislation for Ford Motor Co.'s planned $5.6 billion electric truck and battery complex in rural West Tennessee.
Tennessee Republicans' expected call for a special legislative session on local and business-related COVID-19 restrictions next week opens a wide door to address some GOP members' concerns.
A Tennessee Republican lawmaker says he will push for the state to follow Montana's lead and pass a law banning COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of employment here during a special legislative that GOP House and Senate leaders intend to hold later this month.
Tennessee is committing to spend nearly $900 million on incentives, infrastructure work and a new technical college as its part of an agreement with Ford Motor Co. and South Korea battery maker SK Innovation for a multibillion battery plant and assembly facility in rural West Tennessee.
An often-provocative Tennessee House Republican lawmaker is lashing out at those he called "medical Nazis" in the General Assembly whom he said appear supportive of a "financial elite" comprised of businesses and other entities that favor mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees.
Leaders of Tennessee's House Republican super majority say they have informally met the required legal threshold to call themselves into special session on coronavirus-related matters.
Tennessee government has agreed to repay the federal government $6.85 million to settle what one U.S. Justice Department official described as "shocking" allegations the state Department of Human Services violated the False Claims Act in its food stamp program.
