WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: Yesterday, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies - and all subcommittee Democrats - opposed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Agriculture appropriations bill offered by the Majority. The bill passed on a party-line vote and now moves to the full House Appropriations Committee for consideration. "I am ex more PR

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Mike Collins, R-Georgia, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Technology, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on May 11, 2023, entitled "Reauthorizing the U.S. Fire Administration and Fire Grant Programs: Evaluating Effectiveness and Preparedness for Modern Challenges": * * * Before I begin my remarks, I want to take a moment to thank our witnesses and those in the room who have served as firefighters or in other first responder roles. Firefighting is dang more PR

EATONTON, Georgia, May 20 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is expanding pre-school opportunities for kids in Putnam County. Sen. Ossoff is delivering new resources for the Putnam County Early Learning Program in Eatonton, Georgia, to help families access early childhood education and developmental programs and give kids the opportunities to learn and grow. The new resources, which Sen. Ossoff secured with bipartisan support in Congress, will help the Putnam County Early Learning Progra more PR

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: As Congress works on this year's Farm Bill, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today introduced a bipartisan bill to help strengthen and grow Georgia's booming forestry industry. Sen. Ossoff and Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced the bipartisan Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023, which would modernize and improve the U.S. Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program to ensure reliable data is available to inform forest managemen more PR