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Washington, D.C. Congressman Sanford Bishop today announced that the full House of Representatives approved the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Agriculture Appropriations bill. The bill includes more than $11 million for research, conservation, housing, and rural programs throughout the 2nd Congressional District and Georgia. As a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Congressman Bishop helped craft the bill.

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Sanford Bishop, a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, announced that the full House of Representatives last night approved the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Defense Appropriations bill, which allocates $459 billion to the Department of Defense for the funding of our troops, including first class weapons, equipment, training, facilities, and health care services.

WASHINGTON, DC. Congressman Sanford Bishop today announced that he will be joining a congressional delegation of 14 House members, including the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to the Gulf Coast region just prior to the two-year anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The trip, which runs from August 12-14, will allow Democratic Members to return to a region they visited a year ago and assess the impact of the legislation they passed in the first stage of their new majority.

Washington, D.C. Today, Congressman Sanford Bishop announced that the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, including provisions that will benefit two projects in the Second Congressional District of Georgia, the Fall Line Ecosystem Restoration Project on the Chattahoochee River and improving the City of Albany’s floodplain mapping system.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, Congressman Sanford Bishop, a Member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill, which included $1,100,000 to fund several projects across the Second Congressional District, passed the full House of Representatives last night by a vote of 268-153. The $50.7 billion bill is $2.5 billion above FY 07 and $2.1 billion above the amount requested by President Bush. Congressman Bishop voted in favor of the bill.

Washington, D.C. Congressman Sanford Bishop, a Member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill, passed last night by the full House of Representatives, included $1,000,000 for a number of critically important projects throughout the Second Congressional District of Georgia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Through a concerted effort with representatives of the peanut industry, Congressmen Sanford Bishop (D-Georgia), Allen Boyd (D-North Florida), Jim Marshall (D-Georgia), and John Barrow (D-Georgia) today announced the inclusion of the new Peanut Environmental Resource Stewardship (PERS) Program in the 2007 Farm bill, which passed today in the U.S. House of Representatives. This program would help to enhance the peanut industry by providing the nation’s peanut growers with the support they need, while also working with them to improve production practices.

Washington, D.C. Congressman Sanford Bishop today announced passage of the 2007 Farm bill, which includes vital investments in our nation’s family farmers, renewable energy, rural development, and our most vulnerable citizens. The bill provides a five-year reauthorization of the farm, rural development, conservation, and nutrition programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and is fully compliant with the “pay-as-you-go" rules instituted by the House of Representatives at the beginning of this year.