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By Observer staff Moultrian Interns at Capitol WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A local student is interning over the summer with Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, at the U.S. Capitol. Rob Millings, 26, of Moultrie, son of Jack Millings and Peggy Maxwell, serves as an adviser to Bishop on agriculture policy. His day working for the congressman is full of research, attending briefings, meeting with business leaders and speaking with constituents. Millings said that speaking with constituents is one of his favorite parts of the job and that he has come to believe that it is really important for constituents to maintain a close relationship with their congressman. He has been especially impressed with the amount of time that Bishop devotes to meeting and speaking with individual constituents and groups. Millings has learned that Bishop's schedule is exceptionally full, which makes his own schedule exceptionally full as well. Currently a senior at the University of Georgia's Tifton Campus, Millings is working toward a bachelor's degree in agriscience and environmental systems, with a minor in agribusiness. He already holds associate degrees of science in agriculture (transfer program) and plant science from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. His interest in agriculture grew from his family. Both of his grandparents were farmers -- hogs, cows, corn and soybeans. His father was in the business up until 1984. Opening his eyes to the fact that local farms were often at the mercy of policies set nationally and globally, the University of Georgia helped diversify his outlook beyond Colquitt County. His goal in interning at the Capitol is to learn as much as he can about the policy and practice of agriculture on a macro-level so that he can make the biggest difference back home on the local level. His career focus is on a future in the seed and chemical discipline of agribusiness. UGA sent six students from all over the state to intern in Washington, D.C. Millings lives with three of them in a group house that includes guys from all over the country, including a soldier who has just returned from Iraq. He has really enjoyed getting to know people whose experiences have been so different from his own, he said. |
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A proposal that would provide tobacco farmers with a $9.6 billion buyout in exchange for them dropping a federal quota program that has propped up the price of the crop since the Great Depression would be an "economic shot in the arm" for hard-pressed tobacco growing communities, U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop said.
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