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By Tayleigh Davis
June 20, 2011

Along with the heat, the drought has been a huge problem for homeowners and farmers.

Congressman Sanford Bishop is joining the governor's office in making a disaster declaration.

Bishop says he's already asked the Secretary of Agriculture to get involved in helping southwest Georgia.

Bishop says he's never experienced a drought this bad in the 2nd Congressional district.

"It's a dire situation," said Bishop. "Our people are suffering. We will do everything we can to make sure assistance is available."

Monday, June 6, 2011

Ronquel Robinson was discharged from the U.S. Army in early 2008 and headed to Atlanta to learn video production.

The newly minted veteran had no idea what awaited after he completed two years of classes recession, a slow job market and double-digit unemployment.

"I should've had an easy transition, because I worked in human resources and could always fall back on that," Robinson said. "But I didn't even get calls back on that."

So he signed up for the Army Reserves. At least that earned him $400 a month.

June 6, 2011

As the Iraqi War comes to an end and the draw down of forces in Afghanistan begins, many newly released veterans will flood an already tight job market. In preparation for these new job seekers, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, D-Ga., is leading the House's effort to pass bipartisan legislation to help veterans gain employment after leaving the service.

WASHINGTON -- Georgia farmers and the lawmakers who represent them want to make sure that federal regulators don’t make it more difficult to spread pesticides on their land.

U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr. has been recognized by Military Spouse Magazine for his work on behalf of military families and a commitment to help those serving in the armed forces.

Bishop, who represents the 2nd Congressional District which includes south Columbus and Fort Benning, received the honor during the magazine's annual Military Spouse of the Year Luncheon.

"This award will give me even more determination to continue fighting for our service members, their spouses and their families," said Bishop, D-Albany.

"This is a historic moment for the U.S. special operations and intelligence communities. I highly commend the special operations units who undertook this mission and carried it out with no injuries to women or children inside the compound. The CIA and others in the U.S. intelligence community did a phenomenal job over several months in carrying out this assignment." U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.

Under a clear blue sky on a red clay lot off Bass Road, the U.S. Army surgeon general joined local military and community leaders Friday to break ground on the new Martin Army Community Hospital.

At a cost of $350 million, the 70-bed facility at Fort Benning is expected to be completed by January 2014 and accept its first patients by September 2014. It will replace the 53-year-old hospital on Marne Road, one of the oldest in the Army.

The last decade hasn't been kind to majority-black congressional districts across the country.

While the black population nationally ticked up 12 percent in the just-released Census numbers, eight of the top 10 majority-black districts across the country actually experienced population loss, losing an average of more than 10 percent of their black population, according to a review of Census data by The Fix.

Many of these districts lost voters of other races too, and are now in need of significant expansion during this year's redistricting process.