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Voters in Georgia should send Rep. Paul Broun to the U.S. Senate because he will only vote in favor of legislation that is based on Christian values, the Republican candidate said Saturday.

A Georgia congressman who is running for Senate said on Tuesday that he was fighting to delay, defund and repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law because it would literally "destroy everything we know as a nation."

Seven progressive House candidates and Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) members delivered nearly 36,000 "We stand with the 99%" petitions directly to House Speaker John Boehner's Capitol Hill office Wednesday afternoon.

Republicans have begun to line up against the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that began on September 17. During an appearance Thursday on ABC’s Top Line, Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia claimed the protest was an attack on freedom.

In an act of defiance, several Republican members of Congress have announced that they will not attend President Barack Obama's address to the joint session tonight, despite Speaker John Boehner's request that they come.

As the debate over whether and how to raise the nation's debt ceiling and cut the deficit droned on and on the past few weeks, lawmakers seemed to be running out of not just time before the August 2 deadline, but also out of original metaphors to brighten up their statements and positions.