Mike Collins

Rep. Mike Collins

Rep. Mike Collins

Collins joins primary to challenge U.S. Sen. Ossoff next year

Ty Tagami
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
A second Republican congressman has joined the race to unseat U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff next year.In a brief announcement on social media Monday, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Jackson, joined fellow GOP Rep. Buddy Carter, R-St.Simons, in the campaign to replace Democrat Ossoff with a Republican.Collins...
District 10 Congressman Mike Collins (center) with Putnam County High School senior Tanner Lukens and his family last Friday, during Lukens’ signing ceremony to begin attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy this fall. IAN TOCHER/Staff

District 10 Congressman Mike Collins (center) with Putnam County High School senior Tanner Lukens and his family last Friday, during Lukens’ signing ceremony to begin attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy this fall. IAN TOCHER/Staff

Congressman visits PCHS for Merchant Marine signing

Ian Tocher
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
District 10 Congressman Mike Collins visited Putnam County High School on April 25 to attend the signing ceremony for graduating senior Tanner Lukens, who committed to the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., where he plans to become a pilot.In front of packed grandstands set...
U.S. Representative Mike Collins states his case March 7 on the U.S. House of Representatives floor regarding his Laken Riley Act, introduced in response to a brutal murder two weeks earlier at the University of Georgia in Athens. CONTRIBUTED

U.S. Representative Mike Collins states his case March 7 on the U.S. House of Representatives floor regarding his Laken Riley Act, introduced in response to a brutal murder two weeks earlier at the University of Georgia in Athens. CONTRIBUTED

Bipartisan support pushes Laken Riley Act through U.S. House

Ian Tocher
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
On March 7 the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act,as legislation to give ICE and state governments more tools in the fight against illegal alien crime.
Mike Collins/CONTRIBUTED

Mike Collins/CONTRIBUTED

Collins provides Putnam with mobile office hours

News Staff
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Representative Mike Collins (GA-10) announced Sept. 21 that mobile office hours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5 will be available at the Putnam County Courthouse in Eatonton, open to all 10th District constituents.
Rep. Mike Collins/File Photo

Rep. Mike Collins/File Photo

Collins calls out synthetic opioids on House floor

Ian Tocher
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Georgia District 10 Representative Mike Collins tackled at least part of the country’s growing synthetic drug problem head on July 12, as he urged the U.S. House of Representatives to take up the Senate’s amended version of H.R. 1734, also known as the TRANQ Research Act.
District 10 Congressman Mike Collins (center) speaks with Putnam County Manager Paul Van Haute (in green), with (l-r) County Clerk Lynn Butterworth, Eatonton Councilmember Janie Reid and Eatonton Mayor John Reid among local dignitaries touring the county’s new fire station under construction behind the county offices off the Hwy. 441 bypass. IAN TOCHER/Staff

District 10 Congressman Mike Collins (center) speaks with Putnam County Manager Paul Van Haute (in green), with (l-r) County Clerk Lynn Butterworth, Eatonton Councilmember Janie Reid and Eatonton Mayor John Reid among local dignitaries touring the county’s new fire station under construction behind the county offices off the Hwy. 441 bypass. IAN TOCHER/Staff

Congressman Collins visits PC Commission

Rufus Adair
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Old-school politics were on full display April 6 in Putnam County. A tour of a new building under construction. Public visibility and handshaking.
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