Apr 10, 2021 · Here are Trump's announced endorsements for the 2022 primaries: U.S. Senate: Marco Rubio, Florida: Trump endorsed Rubio on April 9, calling him a "tireless advocate" for Floridians. The two were ...
The 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia was held on November 3, 2020, and on January 5, 2021 (as a runoff), to elect the Class III member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated appointed incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler.The first round of the election was held on November 3, 2020, …
Kelly Lynn Loeffler (/ ˈ l ɛ f l ər /, LEFF-lur; born November 27, 1970) is an American businesswoman and politician, who served as a United States senator for Georgia from 2020 to 2021. A Republican, Loeffler was chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of commodity and financial service provider Intercontinental Exchange, of which her husband, …
Dec 19, 2021 · Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator, has died. He was 76. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office confirmed the ...
On January 6, 2020, Loeffler was sworn into the Senate. She became the second female to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. The first was Rebecca Latimer Felton, also the first female U.S. Senator, who served a symbolic one-day term in 1922.
Until February 2021, she co-owned the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, appointed Loeffler to the Senate in December 2019 after Republican senator Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons.
Loeffler considered seeking the Republican nomination in the 2014 United States Senate election in Georgia but ultimately passed on the race because of Intercontinental Exchange's pending acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange.
Kelly Lynn Loeffler ( / ˈlɛflər /; born November 27, 1970) is an American businesswoman and politician, who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021.
On March 19, 2020, the release of federal financial disclosure documents showed that Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher, chairman and CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange (a corporation that owns the New York Stock Exchange ), had sold stock in companies vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic with an aggregate value of several million dollars. They began selling stocks on January 24, the same day Loeffler attended a private briefing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions on the spread of the disease, before the public had been alerted to its severity. Loeffler denied any wrongdoing, saying the trades were made by a third-party advisor and that she learned about them only after they occurred. Between January 24 and February 14, the couple sold between $1.275 and $3.1 million worth of stock in 27 companies, while buying stocks worth between $450,000 and $1 million, including in Citrix, which develops remote collaboration software.
Following the special election, Loeffler founded Greater Georgia, an organization that plans to register likely conservative voters in Georgia, expand conservative messaging infrastructure, and advocate for more restrictive voting laws. Loeffler has personally invested at least $1 million in the organization.
Early life and education. Loeffler was born in Bloomington, Illinois, to Don and Lynda (née Munsell) Loeffler, and raised on her family's corn and soybean farm in Stanford, Illinois. She has a brother, Brian; their parents married in 1969.
Both of Georgia's Senate seats weren't supposed to be up for grabs in 2020.
Georgia law requires candidates for Congress and state offices to win by getting more than 50 per cent of the vote. Otherwise, races get forced into a runoff between the top two finishers.
If Perdue and Loeffler both lose their seats, Republicans lose control of the U.S. Senate after six years holding a majority in the chamber.
Perdue and Loeffler have cast themselves as the last line of defence against Democratic control of Washington.
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The Georgia Senate. In the American tradition of "separation of powers," the Georgia State Constitution divides its governmental structure into three independent branches - the Legislative, Judicial and Executive - and declares that they are to remain forever separate and distinct. The Legislative Branch of state government is ...
The Constitution of Georgia requires a Senator to be at least 25 years old, an American citizen, a Georgia citizen for at least two years and a resident of his or her Senatorial District for at least one year immediately preceding election. The present Senate membership ranges in age from 26 to 80.
The Senate Press Office. The Senate Press Office was established in 1972 to expand news coverage of the Senate to keep the public informed. The office acts as a conduit between the Senate and the public via the news media throughout the state.
The General Assembly is required by law to convene on the second Monday of January each year and meet for no longer than 40 legislative days . Bills may be introduced in either the Senate or House, with the exception of revenue and appropriations bills, which must originate in the House.