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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.
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.
By Terry Lewis
Saturday, February 5, 2011
A U.S. Congressman pledges to improve resources provided to troops and their families.
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.
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.
By Megan Naughton
Friday, February 4, 2011
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.
Albany, GA – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-2), the Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies, today held a town hall meeting with service members and their families at the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, GA.
Mr. BISHOP (GA). Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose Rep. SCOTT GARRETT’s amendment to the FY2011 Continuing Resolution. His proposal to erase funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services will effectively
eliminate all specific federal funding for libraries. Doing so would cut off access to information for millions of Americans.
Mr. BISHOP (GA). I thank the gentleman for yielding. While the Military Construction/VA portion of this bill is not cut as much as some other parts of the continuing resolution, the cumulative effect of this CR is really to hurt our veterans. The bill provides $74.2 billion, which is $2.4 billion below the FY 2010; $1.8 billion below the President's request.