Sanford Bishop

Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown late last week, passing another stop-gap funding measure that continues farm disaster and pandemic aid. This came amid a Republican fight over the president’s vaccine policies. The new funding lasts only until February 18th, when lawmakers must again wrestle with funding for the rest of the current fiscal year. But ...

The Senate and the House passed a Continuing Resolution to fund federal agencies through December 3rd. The CR provides $10 billion in much-needed disaster relief for losses incurred by farmers and ranchers in 2020 and 2021. It also extends Livestock Mandatory Reporting through December 3rd ...

House Democrats included billions for Ag disaster aid in their stop-gap government funding bill that passed on a party-line vote Wednesday, but that now faces a Senate GOP filibuster over its debt limit hike. The stop-gap spending bill would prevent a government shutdown October 1st, despite the inclusion of billions of dollars for farm country and other disasters ...

A report by the Office of Congressional Ethics says Representative Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat, may have misused campaign funds. Bishop is Chairman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Committee, and has served as the Representative for Georgia’s 2nd congressional district, encompassing Southwest Georgia, since 1993. The ...

Earlier this week, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee approved the fiscal year 2021 agriculture appropriations bill. Committee Chairman Sanford Bishop Jr, a Georgia Democrat, said the bill rejects the Trump administration’s drastic cuts and “instead builds on the four COVID-19 supplemental bills Congress passed this spring.” The bil ...

One of the more hotly debated issues in D.C. these days, rural broadband.   Democrats continue to challenge the White House for proposing a $350 million cut to broadband spending in the fiscal year 2020.  House Ag Appropriations panel chair Sanford Bishop says the President’s proposed budget cuts come at a bad time for rural America. “I have...

Earlier this week, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue went before lawmakers to answer questions about the proposed 2020 budget.  Ag appropriations Chair Sanford Bishop told Perdue his budget to cut discretionary spending more than 20% will be rejected.  ...

House approval of bills to reopen USDA and other largely-shuttered federal agencies, has put on display how far apart the two sides are when it comes to ending the partial government shutdown, which now the longest in American history.  Roughly 800,000 federal workers failed to get paid this weekend, which many say has let to missed car payments, cell phone payments and additional stresses on the