U.S. Senate Tenure
In 1980, Mattingly unseated longtime Georgia Democrat Senator Herman Talmadge, twelve years after Talmadge had defeated E. Earl Patton of Atlanta, the first of the three Republicans who ran against him. Mattingly served in the Senate from January 1981 until January 1987, with membership on the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, chairing first the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch and later the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. Mattingly also served at various times on the Senate Banking Committee, the Governmental Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and the Ethics Committee. He is perhaps best remembered as a proponent of the line-item veto, a position that earned him recognition by President Ronald Reagan during his 1985 State of the Union Address.
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