In the News
By Wainwright Jeffers
Saturday, February 12, 2011
ALBANY, GA - Agriculture contributes more than $65 billion annually to Georgia's economy, but the industry is facing challenges.
Friday and Saturday the Federation of Southern Cooperatives hosted their 28th annual small farmers conference in Albany to talk about farm issues.
About 300 farmers and landowners from across the southeast attended.
They talked about everything from how to obtain loans, get information about government services, and talked to USDA officials about their concerns.
By Jennifer Emert
Friday, February 11, 2011
ALBANY, GA - Seven Albany leaders are back from a trip to the nation's capitol where they encouraged our Representatives to support local projects.
Albany's city manager, the Dougherty County Commission Chairman, and Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development leaders met with Representative Sanford Bishop, and Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. They also met with senior Marine officials at the Pentagon, including General Williams formerly of MCLB.
By Romney Smith
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Bishop hosts town hall to hear military concerns from marines and their family members
ALBANY, GA -- More than 100 marines and their family members packed the base theater for the opportunity to talk to Congressman Sanford Bishop about their concerns within the military.
Bishop says he’s all ears, “All of those is in effort to be supportive to our military families so that their service members will rest easier as they pursue their service in defending this country” says Bishop.
By Terry Lewis
Saturday, February 5, 2011
A U.S. Congressman pledges to improve resources provided to troops and their families.
ALBANY, GA — Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr., D-Albany, vowed to improve the Veterans Administration’s performance by providing troops, veterans and their families with the resources they deserve.
By Megan Naughton
Friday, February 4, 2011
ALBANY, GA -- Bishop is hosting a town hall meeting at the Marine Corps Logistics Base. The meeting will focus on quality of life issues. Lt. Kyle Thomas says this is a great opportunity for service families to discuss their questions and concerns. “We think we're going to have a pretty big showing tomorrow in the base theater in which it will be held. It’s scheduled for an hour and a half so that will be the time for spouses especially to discuss issues with him,” says Thomas.
By Jim Wallace
Friday, February 4, 2011
ALBANY, GA - Congressman Sanford Bishop took tough questions from Marines and their family members during a town hall meeting at the Albany Marine Base Friday.
It was standing room only as Congressman Bishop took questions on quality of life issues for military families.
Bishop is the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee's Sub-committee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
By Ben Wright
Friday, February 4, 2011
U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop will hold a town hall meeting at 10 a.m. today in Albany, Ga., at the Marine Corps Logistics Base.
Bishop, the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and the co-founder and co-chair of the Military Family Caucus, will answer questions on issues for service members and their families during the meeting at the base theater. Bishop, D-Albany, represents the 2nd Congressional District which includes part of Columbus and Fort Benning.
By Terry Lewis
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A U.S. Congressman says the Veterans Administration must meet its commitment to former troops.
ALBANY, GA — As a ranking member of the House Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr., D-Albany, sent a letter late last week to Veterans Affairs Secretary Erik Shinseki outlining his priorities for improving the performance of the VA.
By Shelby G, Spires
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Veterans have lauded U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, for his support of a bill that would allow them to collect disability compensation along with retirement pay.
Current law forbids veterans receiving retirement benefits and disability.
Former 8th Congressional District Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, introduced the bill two years ago, and Bishop has been a supporter.
Veterans groups have decried the practice of disallowing the benefits collection, saying it is an unfair tax.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Editorial Board
Thursday, January 27, 2011
More than four years ago, U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., introduced a bill that would have changed a law preventing many disabled veterans from receiving full retirement pay and full disability compensation. Some vets with less than 50 percent disability for service-connected disability face a reduction in military retirement based on the amount of VA disability; one is in effect deducted from the other.