Some voters will read Friday s vote by U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, not to expel disgraced U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-New York, as more evidence of what they believe are his ties to the hard right wing of the Republican Party.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, a subcommittee chairman on the Appropriations Committee and the only Tennessee congressional member on the panel, is praising the debt ceiling agreement as "a step in the right direction to get our fiscal house in order."
Federal and state leaders are pushing plans to build a new type of nuclear reactor here that they claim could provide a clean source of power and an economic development tool for Tennessee.