Legislation and Issues
Jobs and A Stronger More Diversified Economy
“When we talk about jobs, when we talk about the economy, we are talking about investing in our future. We are talking about creating the infrastructure and the environment for farms and businesses to flourish, for our students to have career choices here in southwest Georgia and for our families to know a higher and better quality of life.”–Congressman Sanford Bishop
Congressman Bishop has spent his career focused on improving SW Georgia's economic environment. Working with local communities and federal agencies he has helped bring back more than $950 million dollars in federal grants and loans to communities throughout the Second District, making the area one of the nation's leaders in qualifying for federal community development funding. He has fought for increased funding for Georgia's roads and highways, a buyout for tobacco farmers—which will mean more than $550 million for Georgia's farm families—and the most recent farm bill which included $45.1 billion more over six years than the previous six years for farm support programs, including the peanut program to make U.S.-grown peanuts competitive with growing foreign imports; rural development; soil and water conservation; agricultural research; and the school lunch and other nutritional programs. Congressman Bishop's legislative record on development is long as he continues to fight for and seek out new solutions for southwest Georgia.
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