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ALBANY — With Democrats and Republicans haggling over proposed fiscal 2012 budget cuts and facing a looming government shutdown, the National Commission of Fiscal Responsibility's Erskine Bowles says now is the time to act in order for the nation to avoid financial calamity.
"Our national debt is unsustainable," Bowles, former President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff, said. "It's like a cancer destroying our country from within. If we do nothing we'll be paying a trillion dollars a year in interest alone by the end of the decade."
By Halimah Abdullah
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Military family caucus: Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, continued to press the case for improved treatment of military families. In a column co-authored with Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, R-Wash., the two lawmakers discussed why they came together to create the bipartisan Congressional Military Family Caucus.
Bishop and McMorris-Rodgers also recently introduced a bill with Reps. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., that would create flexible spending accounts for military families.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The specter of a massive peanut recall three years ago was but a distant shadow for those celebrating in the intermittent sunshine at the Peanut Proud Festival in Blakely, Ga., on Saturday.
"Three years ago we were walking around wondering 'what next?' Now we're looking forward to tomorrow," Early County Producer of the Year Mike Newberry said. Newberry, his wife Sheri and 18-year-old daughter Michaelyn served as grand marshal in the Peanut Proud parade.
March 28, 2011
As a nation, we tend to focus primarily on the service members who willingly put themselves in harm’s way to protect the freedoms that we cherish. However, we often forget that the families they leave behind sacrifice just as much as our heroes do. These families are affected in countless ways, and we have an obligation to do right by them.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Columbus, GA – Georgia Senator Ed Harbison (D-15) says the veterans in Muscogee County and the Fort Benning area deserve a VA hospital, and that's why he is working with U.S. Congressman Sanford Bishop to make national leaders aware of the growing need.
The senator moderated a panel of the state's top veterans affairs officials and Rep. Bishop at the Columbus Public Library Friday afternoon.
By Ben Wright
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Adding 180 new manufacturing jobs at Pratt & Whitney means a $10 million economic impact in annual salaries, U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop said Wednesday.
After a tour of the 8801 Macon Road facility in Midland, Bishop also said he supported President Barack Obama’s effort to establish a no-fly zone in Libya to stem civilian bloodshed by Moammar Gadhafi’s troops.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Columbus, GA – Representative Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) toured the Pratt & Whitney Columbus Engine Center yesterday to get a first hand account of the plant's operation, and how it impacts the Columbus economy. Pratt & Whitney recently announced that as part of the expanding operations at the plant, they will add more than 180 high-paying jobs in Columbus.
By Dust Nix
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki probably had the Vietnam generation in mind last Wednesday when he spoke of the nation’s broken covenant with those who have served us in the armed forces.
“Not upholding these obligations in the past,” Shinseki told a House subcommittee, “has left at least one generation of veterans struggling in anonymity for decades. We, who sent them, owe them better.”
By Halimah Abdullah
Monday, March 21, 2011
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki testified Wednesday that his office would work to improve how veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are treated.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
In a recent speech to a VFW convention in Arlington, Va., Secretary of Veterans Affairs Erik Shinseki listed among the agency’s priorities “to increase veteran access to VA benefits and services, [and] reduce and ultimately eliminate the backlog in disability claims …”