{"id":27220,"date":"2025-03-31T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=27220"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:50:53","slug":"sen-ossoff-working-across-the-aisle-to-strengthen-georgias-veterinary-workforce-2","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-across-the-aisle-to-strengthen-georgias-veterinary-workforce-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Working Across the Aisle to Strengthen Georgia\u2019s Veterinary Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is helping introduce a bipartisan bill to strengthen Georgia\u2019s veterinary workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Sen. Ossoff is backing the bipartisan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rural_veterinary_workforce_act.pdf\"><em>Rural Veterinary Workforce Act<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;to help address the veterinary shortage across Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would allow veterinarians practicing in underserved areas to exempt student loan repayments from their taxable income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGeorgia communities depend on access to veterinary care \u2014 especially our farmers and ranchers. That\u2019s why I am working with Republicans and Democrats to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Rural Veterinary Workforce Act<\/em>&nbsp;to strengthen Georgia\u2019s veterinary workforce,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues working to strengthen Georgia\u2019s veterinary workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last April, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-delivering-upgrades-to-ugas-veterinary-lab-in-tifton\/\">delivered<\/a>&nbsp;Federal resources to upgrade the equipment and infrastructure at the University of Georgia\u2019s Tifton Veterinary Diagnostic and Investigational Laboratory, which conducts research and testing to prevent animal disease outbreaks and protect Georgia\u2019s agricultural industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rural_veterinary_workforce_act.pdf\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>&nbsp;to read the&nbsp;<em>Rural Veterinary Workforce Act.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is helping introduce a bipartisan bill to strengthen Georgia\u2019s veterinary workforce. Today, Sen. Ossoff is backing the bipartisan&nbsp;Rural Veterinary Workforce Act&nbsp;to help address the veterinary shortage across Georgia. The bill would allow veterinarians practicing in underserved areas to exempt student loan repayments from their taxable income. \u201cGeorgia communities depend [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27220","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27222,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27220\/revisions\/27222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}