via Jones: Sen. Chambliss stays on message | Online Athens.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss doesn’t wear out speechwriters because he’s had the same message for years: painful choices are needed to cut the federal deficit.
The Georgia Republican has other interests on Capitol Hill, certainly. As the former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, he’s an influential voice regarding this year’s farm bill, which he opposes in its current form. That also gives him a basis for calling for revisions to the federal guest-worker program to prevent a repeat of last year’s labor shortage that was so costly to Georgia agricultural producers.
As vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chambliss stays involved with America’s national defense. He just returned from a trip to Asia, and he’s headed out again to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“It’s pretty scary. There are lots of things that I hear that keep me up at night,” he said in a recent address to the Atlanta Press Club.
Still, he remains focused on the deficit.
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