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Congress

Republican Congressman Mark Green fends off challenge from former Nashville mayor Megan Barry

Marianna Bacallao

November 5, 2024

Republican Mark Green is headed to Congress for another term, after initially announcing his retirement earlier this year.

Filed Under: Election in Depth 2024, Election Live Blog 2024, Politics Tagged With: 7th Congressional District, Congress, Elections 2024, Mark Green, Megan Barry

Republican incumbent John Rose re-elected to Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District

Marianna Bacallao

November 5, 2024

Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District has reelected Republican John Rose for another two years. 

Filed Under: Election Live Blog 2024, Politics Tagged With: 6th Congressional District, Congress, Elections 2024, John Rose, Lore Bergman

How will candidates for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District tackle fentanyl and abortion issues?

Marianna Bacallao

October 16, 2024

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Incumbent Mark Green faces a challenge from former Nashville mayor Megan Barry.

Filed Under: Election in Depth 2024, Election Live Blog 2024, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 7th Congressional District, Congress, Elections 2024, Mark Green, Megan Barry

‘Responsible gun owners are not the problem’: Tennessee 5th Congressional hopeful on how she’d tackle gun safety

Marianna Bacallao

August 19, 2024

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Nashville activist Maryam Abolfazli has been active at the Tennessee’s statehouse, advocating for change to the state’s gun safety laws. Now, she’s hoping to make change at the federal level.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 5th Congressional District, Andy Ogles, Congress, Covenant School, Elections 2024, gun reform, gun safety, guns in schools

‘People are tired’: Nashville Republican Courtney Johnston out-fundraises Congressman Andy Ogles

Marianna Bacallao

July 25, 2024

Metro Councilmember Courtney Johnston
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Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles faces a wide financial gap in his bid for re-election. The incumbent for the state’s 5th congressional district has raised half of what his Republican challenger has raised, and still faces questions about discrepancies in his finance reports. Republican challenger Courtney Johnston sat down with WPLN News to talk about what sets her apart for the incumbent.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 5th Congressional District, Andy Ogles, Bill Haslam, Bob Corker, Congress, Courtney Johnston, Elections 2024, Nashville Metro Council

Analysis: Tennessee’s congressional delegation is particularly partisan

Nina Cardona

May 15, 2024

Knoxville Republican Tim Burchett is the member of Tennessee’s congressional delegation most likely to reach across the aisle. But taken as a whole, the people who this state’s voters have sent to Washington D.C. rank pretty low for bipartisanship.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Andy Ogles, Bill Hagerty, Congress, Elections 2024, Marsha Blackburn, partisanship, Tim Burchett

How do Andy Ogles’ constituents feel about his votes against Kevin McCarthy? We asked two.

Blaise Gainey

January 5, 2023

Hardline Republicans — including Nashville Congressman-elect Andy Ogles — won’t back California Republican Kevin McCarthy for speaker. Ogles’ supporters are divided on the tactic.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Andy Ogles, Congress

Gov. Lee appeals to Congress to end COVID vaccine mandate affecting 800 Tennessee guardsmen

Blake Farmer

December 1, 2022

Tennessee National Guard vaccine

Gov. Bill Lee is leading Republican governors around the country, asking Congress to end a COVID vaccine mandate for the military as recruitment and retention are suffering. So far, no Tennessee guardsmen have been discharged from their duties, but hundreds are still refusing to get the vaccine.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, Congress, coronavirus vaccine, Military, Tennessee Guard, vaccine

Republican-drawn legislative maps are coasting to passage in Tennessee Senate

Blaise Gainey

January 19, 2022

The newly drawn Tennessee district maps have flown through legislative committees on party-line votes. The Republican-led state Senate could pass the maps Thursday.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Congress, NAACP, redistricting

Opponents to Republicans’ proposed Congressional map say it’s unfair to minority and rural voters

Blaise Gainey

January 12, 2022

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The proposed Congressional map that came out of a Republican-led committee Wednesday inspired fierce and immediate opposition. It would split up Shelby County into two Congressional districts and Davidson into three.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Congress, redistricting

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