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January 1, 2003

U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop has come out swinging for new federal emergency aid in the range of $5.9 billion for farmers who have suffered extreme crop and livestock losses due to drought and other weather-related disasters over the past two years.

January 1, 2003
U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop issued this statement Tuesday night (1/28) following President Bush's State of the Union address:

"While I thought the President's speech was well delivered and at times uplifting, he fell short of making a convincing case for his economic stimulus and budget plans and still left us with uncertainties about Iraq even while laying out strong circumstantial evidence of non-compliance.