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Chambliss in sugar furor
An Imperial Sugar Co. executive's lawyer says the company put U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss up to harassing his client at a subcommittee hearing. Near the end of the Tuesday session in Washington, the Georgia Republican lit into Graham H. Graham, Imperial's vice president of operations. "I believe ...
12/2/2008 - United States Senator, Chambliss
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Senate Guru: GA-Sen: Saxby Chambliss Doesn't Care About You
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... After an explosion at an Imperial Sugar refinery, an executive came forward to testify about the dangers at the refinery and how he had tried to get the powers that be at Imperial to make the plant safer before the explosion. This man wanted to make the workplace safer for Georgian workers. However, when he came to testify, Saxby Chambliss used it as an opportunity to attack the man who was only trying to make Georgian workplaces safer. You see, Imperial Sugar and the sugar industry in general are ...

I'll learn to work the saxophone, I'll play just what I feel
SteveAudio — ... the other from a spokesperson for Chambliss. According to Roll Call's source, Chambliss said, “We need better intelligence. If we had better intelligence in the Civil War we’d be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln.” A spokesperson for Chambliss said the story wasn't correct and that what the Senator actually said said was, “If Gen. JEB Stuart had had better intelligence, we’d all be meeting in Richmond right now.” He interfered with a hearing into an explosion at one of his contributors' sugar plants: An Imperial Sugar Co. ...

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