Passing Three Critical Appropriations Bills

Last week, the House passed critical appropriations bills with my support: H.R. 8774, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2025, H.R. 8771, the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2025, and H.R. 8752, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2025.

These important pieces of legislation fund programs and policies that put the American people first and prioritize the core missions of the departments they fund. They provide for our national defense, counter our adversaries, and empower our servicemembers who answer the call to defend our country.

These bills support our allies around the world and prohibit funds for international organizations that seek to undercut the interests of the United States. They also provide critical funding to defend our southern border and prohibit funding for programs and agendas that have led to this immigration crisis.

Our country is facing threats at levels we haven’t seen since World War II, and these three bills meet our nation's needs as they currently stand.

Celebrating Progress on Establishing Georgia's First National Park and Preserve

The recent acquisition of the Branson Tracts in the proposed expanded boundary of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve expands hunting and fishing access in the Ocmulgee Corridor and supports our effort to establish Georgia's first National Park and Preserve!

Thank you to the Peyton Anderson Foundation, the Green South Foundation, the Knobloch Family Foundation, the Open Space Institute, and the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative for your contributions to this great effort!

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Georgia Public Broadcasting | Land preservation group acquires properties near Ocmulgee Mounds for 1st national park

"A nonprofit organization dedicated to land conservation has acquired two parcels of land in Middle Georgia that will support efforts to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first national park.

The 'Branson Tracts' occupy 931 acres in Bibb and Twiggs counties. The Open Space Institute has acquired the properties from conservation-minded landowner Martha Bond Branson with plans to transfer them to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as additions to the 8,600-acre Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

The tracts are located a short distance from traditional Muscogee (Creek) Nation lands and Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park...

Georgia’s two U.S. senators, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, and U.S. Reps. Austin Scott, R-Tifton, and Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, introduced legislation into Congress last month to create a national park and preserve at the Ocmulgee Mounds."

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