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Nathan Deal
Governor: Governor
Republican Next Election Year: 2014

Education:
JD, Mercer University, 1966 BA, Mercer University, 1964

Profession:
Attorney, Private Practice, 1979-1992 County Attorney, Hall County, 1977-1979 Juvenile Court Judge, Hall County, 1971-1972 Assistant District Attorney, Northeastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia, 1970-1971 Captain, United States Army, 1966-1968

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Voting Record on Legislation Involving Budget, Spending and Taxes

(2010) HR 2847 Employment, Infrastructure, and Transportation Appropriations and Tax Credits ("Senate Jobs Bill")

Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (217/201)

Summary: -Specifies that most employers will not be required to pay an excise tax for the second, third, and fourth calendar quarters of 2010 on wages for employees who began employment between February 3, 2010 and December 31, 2010, with the following conditions (Sec. 101):

-The employer must provide a signed affidavit that employees have not worked more than 40 hours a week in the 60 days prior to employment; -The employee was not hired to replace a worker that was fired; and -The employee is not a corporation, nor owns either directly or indirectly more than 50 percent of the company's capital.-Specifies that, on payroll taxes paid during the first quarter, amounts that could have otherwise been credited shall be treated as payments against first quarter payroll taxes (Sec. 101). -Specifies that Railroad Retirement taxes shall apply to any employee who began employment between February 3, 2010 and December 31, 2010 at a rate of 1.45 percent of wages paid by the employer (Sec. 101). -Increases the current year business tax credit for employers that have retained workers for at least 52 consecutive weeks by the lesser of the following (Sec. 102):

-$1,000; or -6.2 times the amount of wages paid by the employer to workers.-Specifies that issuers of qualified zone academy bonds and qualified school construction zone bonds may elect to apply for a tax credit, and a credit shall be the lesser of (Sec. 301):

-The amount of interest payable under the bond; or -The amount of interest that would have been payable under the bond if such interest is subject to an applicable credit rate under Section 54A of the Internal Revenue Code.-Specifies that issuers of clean energy bonds and qualified energy conservation bonds may elect to apply for a tax credit, and that the credit shall be 70 percent of the amount of interest payable under the bond (Sec. 301). -Requires 10 percent of funds made available for projects funded under Titles I, III and V of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act (SAFETEA-LU) and any conforming provisions in this act shall go to businesses owned and controlled by "socially and economically disadvantaged individuals" (Sec. 451). -Requires states to compile a list of businesses owned and controlled by "socially and economically disadvantaged individuals" (Sec. 451). -Specifies that a "socially and economically disadvantaged" individual includes, but is not limited to, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and women (Sec. 451). -Specifies corporate estimated tax for corporations with $1 billion or more in assets shall be calculated as follows (Sec. 561):

-Any required installment that is otherwise due in July, August, or September of 2009 shall be 123.25 percent of such amount; -Any required installment that is otherwise due in July, August, or September of 2015 shall be 121.5 percent of such amount; -Any required installment that is otherwise due in July, August, or September of 2019 shall be 106.5 percent of such amount; and -Any future installments shall be reduced appropriately.-Specifies that PAYGO compliance for this act is required (Sec. 562).

Deal's Vote

N

(2010) HR 2701 Intelligence Appropriations Fiscal Year 2010

Outcome: Bill Passed (235/168)

Summary: -Authorizes appropriations specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations, a document made available to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and the President, to the following agencies (Sec. 101, 102):

-The Office of the Director of National Intelligence; -The Central Intelligence Agency; -The Department of Defense; -The Defense Intelligence Agency; -The National Security Agency; -The Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force; -The Coast Guard; -The Department of State; -The Department of the Treasury; -The Department of Energy; -The Department of Justice; -The Federal Bureau of Investigation; -The Drug Enforcement Administration; -The National Reconnaissance Office; 6652 -The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; and -The Department of Homeland Security. -Appropriates $672.81 million for the Intelligence Community Management Account (Sec. 104). -Prohibits the authorization of any "Congressional earmarks", defined as a specific amount of discretionary spending for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure targeted to a specific state, locality, or Congressional district (Sec. 105). -Appropriates $290.9 million to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund (Sec. 201). -Authorizes an increase in appropriations for salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits as necessary (Sec. 301). -Authorizes the Director of National Intelligence to carry out a grant program designed to increase ethnic and cultural diversity within the intelligence community (Sec. 312). -Authorizes $2 million in appropriations to establish a five-year pilot program for intensive African language instruction (Sec. 314). -Requires the President to provide all information necessary for the Congressional intelligence committees to assess the lawfulness, effectiveness, cost, benefit, intelligence gain, budgetary authority, and risk of an intelligence activity, not limited to the following (Sec. 321):

-The legality of the intelligence activity, including any legal issues upon which guidance was sought in the activity's planning and implementation, as well as any dissenting legal views; -Specific operational concerns, including the risk of disclosing intelligence sources or methods; -The likelihood that the intelligence activity will exceed authorized expenditures; and -The likelihood that the intelligence activity will fail. -Establishes the Office of Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, a position appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, whose purpose is as follows (Sec. 406):

-To be an independent and objective office, accountable to Congress; -To conduct investigations, inspections, and audits on matters controlled by the Director of National Intelligence; -Recommend administrative policies and detect fraud on matters controlled by the Director of National Intelligence; -To keep the Director of National Intelligence and Congressional intelligence committees informed on the Office's problems, deficiencies, and the need for corrective actions; and -To serve as the Chair to the Intelligence Community Inspectors General Forum. -Prohibits the use of private contractors to interrogate suspects detained by the Central Intelligence Agency, unless there is no one within the CIA capable or available to conduct the interrogation, and requires all interrogations to be video recorded (Sec. 412, 416). -Repeals the authority of the National Counterintelligence Executive to enter into any contract, lease, cooperative agreement, or any other transaction the Executive considers appropriate to carry out the functions of that office (Sec. 423). -Specifies that no appropriations shall be used to provide suspected terrorists and detainees who are not United States citizens with Miranda rights (Sec. 504).

Deal's Vote

-

(2010) HJR 45 Reinstating PAYGO Budget Rule

Outcome: Motion Agreed (233/187)

Summary: -Reinstates the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) budget rule, a rule that applies to bills or joint resolutions that affect direct spending or revenue relative to the baseline and that requires such bills to be budget-neutral (Sec. 2). -Requires PAYGO legislation to include an estimate of its budgetary effects, as provided by the Congressional Budget Office, at one of the following times (Sec. 4):

-Prior to a vote on passage in a chamber; -Prior to the first action by a chamber on a conference report or an amendment between the chambers; or -Upon enactment of the legislation.-Requires the Office of Management and Budget to maintain and make public on every piece of PAYGO legislation two sets of scorecards, which shall measure the budgetary effects of such legislation over 5 years and over 10 years (Sec. 4). -Requires the Office of Management and Budget at the end of every Congressional session to publish and make public a PAYGO report, which shall include the following (Sec. 5):

-Current PAYGO scorecards on all PAYGO legislation; -Any current policy adjustments; -Information about any emergency legislation; -Sequestration orders that show how direct spending will be adjusted to offset any costs shown on PAYGO scorecards; and -Other data that would "enhance public understanding" of the above items.-Requires the Office of Management and Budget to calculate the uniform percentage of funds that are to be seized in order to balance spending, and specifies that any uniform percentage exceeding 4 percent shall result in Medicare spending reductions of 4 percent, as well as spending reductions in other nonexempt direct spending programs (Sec. 6). -Lists several federal programs and activities that would be exempt from payment reductions, including, but not limited to, Social Security Benefits and Tier I Railroad Retirement Benefits, Veterans Programs, and Refundable Income Tax Credits (Sec. 11). -The text of this resolution was replaced by a substitute amendment sponsored by Sen. Harry Reid. -This vote follows an agreement pursuant to the passage of House Resolution 1065, which requires the House of Representatives to vote on a motion to concur with the Senate amendments to HJR 45 relating to PAYGO and various government programs as a divided question, separate from the provision raising the debt limit. The provision raising the debt limit was concurred with pursuant to the passage of House Resolution 1065.

Deal's Vote

N