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Aderholt updates Marshall County Board of Realtors on Washington's budget woes
By Malarie Haven | Sand Mountain Reporter | August 15, 2011

U.S. Congressman Robert Aderholt addressed the Marshall County Board of Realtors on Thursday to share information about recent budgeting decisions in Washington.

"It's been sort of crazy over there," he said.

He said many of the issues stem from the U.S. House of Representatives' flip from Democratic to Republican control.

Gordo church keeps August all-day singing tradition alive
By Robert DeWitt | Tuscaloosa News | August 15, 2011

GORDO | Nobody seems real sure just how long the Elmore-Center United Methodist Church in Pickens County has held its all-day singing. But they are sure that it's been a long time.

“I'm 78, and it was going on when I was 4 or 5 years old, as long as I can remember,” said Henry Shirley of Gordo, a church member.

Congressman Aderholt tours tornado-stricken area
By Jason Morton | Tuscaloosa News | August 13, 2011

TUSCALOOSA | The day after an EF4 tornado laid waste to almost six miles of Tuscaloosa, U.S. Rep. Richard Aderholt was here to see the destruction first-hand.

He said he was shocked by the devastation, which was symbolized by the empty intersection of two of the city's busiest thoroughfares — McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street.

“It was overwhelming to be here,” he said.

Aderholt now knows the desperate need
Sand Mountain Reporter | August 12, 2011

We commend U.S. Congressman Robert Aderholt for his trip this week to Marshall County so he could see for himself the Double Bridges near Asbury.

Congressman Aderholt takes on dangerous bridges
By Stephen McLamb | WAFF | August 11, 2011

ALBERTVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

Today, Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt got a firsthand look at a bridge that drivers say is an extreme danger.

A young woman died on this bridge 5 years ago.

People living near the double bridges in the Marshall County community of Asbury hope the Congressman's ride across the bridge today is the first step in getting something done to make this area safe.

Exxel Outdoors, the largest napping bag producer in the United States, is at chance of losing its Haleyville assembly lines since a loophole in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) traffic laws, that were written in 1974 to gain American companies.

The GSP was shaped to publicize mercantile expansion by permitting more than 130 building countries duty-free access to about 4,800 products from the U.S., mentioned Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-AL. To safeguard American industries, textiles were not enclosed in the GSP.