Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to eat certain jars of Peter Pan peanut butter or Great Value peanut butter due to risk of Salmonella contamination. The affected jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter have a product code located on the lid of the jar that begins with the number "2111." Both the Peter Pan and Great Value brands are manufactured in a single facility employing 132 people in Georgia’s Second Congressional District in Sylvester, Georgia by ConAgra Foods.
Washington, D.C. - Georgia’s Second Congressional District Representative Sanford Bishop, Member of the House Committee on Appropriations, today won appointments to join three subcommittees – Defense, Agriculture, and Military Construction/ Veterans Affairs. The Democratic Members of the House Appropriations Committee met this morning to officially fill the subcommittee seats allotted to the majority party in the newly convened 110th Congress.
Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the President will travel to Fort Benning, Georgia, to have lunch with the troops and watch a military weapons demonstration. Representative Sanford Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Georgia’s Second District which includes Fort Benning, has been asked to join President Bush on the visit. The event follows this evening’s address to the nation where the President outlined his plan to send an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq.
In anticipation of the visit, Congressman Bishop issued the following statement:
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Sanford Bishop voted to improve access to affordable medicines by voting for legislation which requires the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate with drug companies for lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.
The House passed the bill this afternoon by a vote of 255 to 170.
Bishop receives gavel as president of Washington, D.C. service club
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Georgia) today congratulated his wife, Vivian Bishop, on the occasion of her becoming President of the Washington D.C.-based Congressional Club. Mrs. Bishop formally received the gavel from the former president, Mrs. Vicki Tiahrt, wife of Congressman Todd Tiahrt, Republican of Kansas. Mrs. Bishop will be the first African American president of The Congressional Club.
Washington, D.C. Today, Congressman Sanford Bishop, along with a bi-partisan delegation from Georgia, held a meeting with a group of Congressmen and staffers from several key offices within the House of Representatives responsible for the fate of Georgia’s PeachCare for Kids health care program. Currently facing a federal funding deficit of $131 million, PeachCare must receive authorization from Congress in order to continue operating.
Washington, D.C. Today, the House of Representatives passed a bill which Congressman Sanford Bishop supported reforming the Congressional page program. The measure improves oversight of the Page Program by requiring regular meetings of the Page Board and makes the Page Board fully bipartisan, comprised of 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans. Also on the board will be a former page and the parent of a person who is or has been a page in the past 5 years.
WASHINGTON, DC. Congressman Sanford Bishop released the following statement in response to President Bush’s State of the Union Address.
“Last November, the American people demanded a dramatic change at home and abroad. Now in the majority, Democrats in Congress are delivering that change by reaching out to Republicans and delivering results on the priorities of the American people. Tonight’s speech by the President responded to those demands for changes in domestic policy.
Washington, D.C. Congressman Sanford Bishop, a Member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that the fiscal year 2007 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill includes funding for $1,525,000 in projects in the Second Congressional District.
Washington, D.C. Congressman Sanford Bishop, a Member of the House Appropriations Committee, is pleased to announce that the full Appropriations Committee has approved language that directs a federal study on the impact of BRAC on Columbus-area schools, and other communities similarly impacted.