Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. Although he considers it a seriously flawed measure, U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop says he voted for the House bill to increase military and reconstruction funding in Iraq and Afghanistan by $87 billion because it addresses critical needs of U.S. troops in harms way.
| ALBANY, GA. Franklin A. “Frank” Spooner, 49, of Albany, who assisted thousands of people throughout a widespread area of Southwest Georgia as a “case worker” on the Second Congressional District staff of U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop for nearly seven years, died Tuesday (10/27) after a long illness. A memorial service will be held Monday at 10:00 a.m. at Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors, located at 1503 Dawson Road, Albany. Visitation with the family will be held afterward. |
| Georgia Trend Magazine has selected Kenneth Cutts, District Director on the Second District Congressional staff of U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop, as one of the state’s 40 most outstanding young people under the age of 40 for 2003. |
WASHINGTON, D.C. Eleven Georgia communities will receive firefighting grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to enhance their abilities to respond to emergencies, including the Blakely and Naylor fire departments in the Second Congressional District, U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop has announced.
“These grants are a vitally important part of our efforts to make the country safer and more secure,” the Second District Congressman said.“These communities are helping make the whole country safer by strengthening the effectiveness of our first responders.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop has introduced a resolution to formally commemorate the “March on Washington” 40 years ago, an event that he says spawned greater “freedom, justice and equality for all Americans.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. The award-winning Dougherty High Chorale gave two performances in Washington, D.C. this week-one on Thursday (9/25) night at a gospel concert held at the Washington Convention Center and the other on Friday (9/26) afternoon at the U.S. Capitol.
WASHINGTON, D.C. As the new fiscal year begins, U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop says Republican majority leaders in Congress are not doing enough to slow down the runaway deficit that “threatens to prolong the country’s economic slump and undermine the security and well being of every American.
The new fiscal year began at midnight, October 1, when the old budget expired and a new budget cycle got underway.
The U.S. Justice Department has awarded funding to four counties in the Second Congressional District under the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program to help defray costs associated with the incarceration of criminal illegal aliens, U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop announced.
The awards go to Crisp County, $450; Lee County, $4,273; Muscogee County, $2,649, and Decatur County, $1,119. The funds, provided under the 1994 Crime Act, go into the general fund of the recipient communities, and can be used for any purpose, the Congressman explained.
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Five fire departments in Georgia's Second Congressional Districts are among the most recent grants to be awarded nationwide under the new federal Assistance to Firefighter Grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop announced.
The following is a listing of Congressman Bishop’s District engagements for the week of August 3, 2003:
Wednesday, August 6, 2003
10:30 a.m., Cuthbert, Albany Technical College Adult Literacy Center, 109 Court Street, to tour the facilities and receive briefing on their efforts to promote literacy in Southwest Georgia;
10:45 a.m., Cuthbert, Millenium Center, U.S. 82 East, to tour the facilities and receive briefing on the program to treat women residents who suffer from substance abuse;