Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28, 1944) is the junior United States Senator from Georgia and a member of the Republican Party.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Joseph Kony's days are numbered as offers of amnesty have produced better intelligence on the brutal African warlord's whereabouts, a top senator said Wednesday as lawmakers signaled they will push for expanding the State Department's rewards for justice program to target the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.
"The noose is beginning to tighten," said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., who traveled to central Africa earlier this month and met with U.S. military advisers and Africans in the hunt for Kony.The warlord and his ruthless guerrilla group, the Lord's Resistance Army, are responsible for a 26-year campaign of terror in Central Africa that has been marked by child abductions and widespread killings. Last year, President Barack Obama dispatched 100 U.S. troops — mostly Army Special Forces — to Central Africa to advise regional forces in their hunt for Kony, a military move that received strong bipartisan support.In recent weeks, Kony has become a household name as a video by the group...WASHINGTON -- Nevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle , a Tea Party favorite who describes herself as a conservative's conservative, left the Republican Party at the hei...
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In a last-minute stab at compromise, Republican congressional leaders and the White House made significant progress Saturday night toward a deal to avert a governmen...
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ATLANTA -- Georgia voters are sending U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson back to Washington for a second term.An Associated Press analysis of unofficial returns showed the Rep...
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