WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced he will be holding a summit entitled, "Louisiana Energy Security Summit: Unleashing American Abundance in a Changing Global Landscape," in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. The Energy Security Summit will bring together leaders from the federal, state, and local government, industry, researc  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and 12 Republican colleagues introduced the Protecting Regular Order (PRO) for Veterans Act to hold the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) accountable for a Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) budget shortfall of $3 billion. This bill institutes a three-year requirement for the VA to subm  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will grant Louisiana $4,000,000.00 from his Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for transportation projects. The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) will receive $2,000,000 for the planning, development, financing, construction, maintenance, and operation of an Airport Automated People Mo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will grant the Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District $4,732,022 to improve port safety from his Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). This funding will replace two ferry landing barges on the Belle Chasse-Scarsdale evacuation route, as well as a maintenance barge project. "Ensuring our ports are safe an  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) delivered a speech on the U.S. Senate floor urging Congress to reauthorize and reform the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). He called on Congress to take action before NFIP expires at the end of the fiscal year on September 30th, 2024. He also urged Congress to roll back Risk Rating 2.0 to make NFIP affordable again. This is the sixth installment of a series of Sen  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: BATON ROUGE Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) participated in a Unified Command Group meeting with Governor Jeff Landry to discuss Louisiana's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Francine. "Hurricane Francine was a test case for Louisiana," Dr. Cassidy. "It could have been worse, but preparation and luck made it much better than it could have been. Individual acts of heroism, such as police offic  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas authorizing the sale of Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA to Healthcare Systems of America (HSA). Glenwood was previously owned by Steward Health Care, who is curren  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) met with Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S., Maria Luiza Ribiero Viotti; Chilean Ambassador to the U.S., Juan Gabriel Valdes; Colombian Ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Garcia-Pena Jaramillo; Guatemalan Ambassador to the U.S., Hugo Beteta; and Panamanian Ambassador the U.S., Jose Miguel Aleman, to discuss the current electoral crisis  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) issued the following statement after the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed their bipartisan, bicameral Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) by a voice vote. "After the Senate overwhelmingly passed COPPA 2.0 in July, today's Energy and Commerce Committee vote to advance our commonsense legislation is an important st  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and five Republican colleagues called for additional protective resources to President Donald Trump's security detail following the second assassination attempt against President Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida on September 15th. In a letter to acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, the senators are demanding the sa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Jim Risch (R-ID), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Todd Young (R-IN), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Mitt Romney (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced the STRATEGIC Competition Act 2024, legislation to set up the United States and its allies and partners for success in the strategic competition   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and their Republican colleagues issued a joined statement on the Palestinian Mission to the United Nations (UN) disgraceful and flagrant resolution targeting the Jewish State of Israel and its rightful control over its historic homeland ahead of the UN General Assembly. The resolution could be voted on as early as this week. "This proposal introduc  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today introduced the Helping Small Businesses to Hedge Risk and Insure against Volatile Expenses (Helping Small Businesses THRIVE) Act. It directs the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to create a program that helps small businesses lock in the cost of commodities, like gasoline or lumber, to protect against the future volatile price of e  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2024: Here's what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week: Appropriations On Wednesday, September 18, the Subcommittee on Subcommittee on Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies will hold an oversight hearing called "Inspectors General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Transportation, and   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Garret Graves, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today announced that their discharge petition for the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act has hit 218 signatures -- the number required to force a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. Last week, Graves and Spanberger filed a discharge petition to force a vote on their bipartisan legislation that would eliminate both   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, released a joint statement after the Committee voted to hold Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre in contempt for defying  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Congressman Clay Higgins' (R-LA) bipartisan legislation, the Federal Register Modernization Act, passed through the House Oversight and Accountability during a legislative markup yesterday. The bill would eliminate the requirement to print physical copies of the Federal Register and replace the practice with a fully electronic publication. For decades, the Government Publishing Office (GPO) has been requ  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Congressman Clay Higgins' (R-LA) bipartisan legislation to protect the southern border and combat transnational criminal organizations passed the House Homeland Security Committee by unanimous vote. This legislation reauthorizes the Joint Task Forces (JTFs) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) so that they can coordinate agencies to combat drug smuggling, human trafficking, and terrorist threats.   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced the Federal Lands and Waters Leasing Transparency Act, which would hold energy regulators accountable and streamline the federal leasing process for lands and waters. In recent years, the oil and gas industry has experienced significant challenges regarding the leasing process managed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Managem  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Building upon the critically important, bipartisan work of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this week, the Republican-led House took several important steps to protect the American people, our infrastructure, and our intellectual property from the CCP. "This week, the House passed a robust set of bills -- 28 piece  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2024: This week, the Republican-led House took several important steps to expose and fight the woke agenda of the Biden-Harris Administration. "This week, the House passed three comprehensive anti-woke legislative packages, along with several key individual bills, to counter the woke, wasteful, and weaponized agenda of the Biden-Harris Administration. Americans want our banks   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 18, 2024: * * * Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement on the House Committee on Homeland Security's report on the Biden-Harris Administration's border crisis: "Today, the Committee on Homeland Security released a report exposing the many ways the Biden-Harris Administration knowingly and intentionally undermined U.S. border security to c  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), and Congressman Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) to discuss the impact - which he has experienced personally - of dangerous rhetoric from the Left that has led to now multiple atte  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) penned an op-ed in The Advocate highlighting the push to make his Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) law. The Senate passed the bill, along with the Kids Online Safety Act, in July with overwhelming bipartisan support. "Parents are right to worry about the ways their children can be targeted online," wrote Dr. Cassidy. "But there is a reason t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: President Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic, endorsed the Americas Act during a keynote address at the 27th Annual CAF Conference. The landmark legislation introduced earlier this year by U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) and U.S. Representatives Maria Salazar (R-FL-27) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) focuses on strengthening economic and national security   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Watch Kennedy's comments here. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) spoke on the Senate floor to praise the people of Louisiana for their perseverance during Hurricane Francine. Kennedy also explained what types of federal aid Louisiana will receive to help facilitate cleanup efforts in the state. Key remarks from Kennedy include: "I am sorry to report that last week my people in Louisiana were hit by yet anothe  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and colleagues in releasing the following statement on the Palestinian Authority's (PA) proposal of an anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. General Assembly. The PA's resolution calls for the end of Israel's presence in the West Bank, for sanctions against Israeli officials and for blocking arms transfers to Israel. The General Assembly has not pas  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Watch Kennedy's comments here. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) spoke on the Senate floor to discuss the Federal Reserve's cut to interest rates, inflation and the economy. Key remarks from Kennedy include: "Americans are struggling to pay their bills. The reason, of course, is inflation . . . those high prices, they were made in and they are a cancer on the American dream." "And as a result of the high pric  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2024: Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-La.) announced $292,714,591 in Battery Materials Processing Grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for Element 25 (Louisiana) LLC and Honeywell International Inc. These awards were made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Congressman Carter helped craft and voted for. "I'm excited to celebrate this significant step   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 20, 2024: * * * Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) released the following statement after the announcement that H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 will receive a vote on the House floor. Congressman Carter is a cosponsor of this legislation: "WEP and GPO are harmful provisions that slash public servant's Social Security benefits. I signed the discharge petition to bring the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 20, 2024: * * * Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) released the following statement congratulating New Orleans native Ava Dejoie Cates on her appointment as Regional Administrator of Region 6 for the Small Business Administration (SBA): "I am proud to have recommended Ava Dejoie Cates, an incredibly talented leader, for the role of SBA Region 6 Regional Administrator. This is an outstandi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 18, 2024: * * * Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. (D-LA) released the following statement in response to House Republican's partisan, extreme continuing resolution proposal to extend government funding for six months: "Tonight, House Republicans have once again put party interests above the needs of the American people. Their dead-on-arrival proposal fails to protect Louisiana families recoverin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2024: Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. (D-LA) praised eight bills that he either introduced or cosponsored that passed in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure this week. Congressman Carter is the lead sponsor of H.R. 9037, the Federal Emergency Mobilization Accountability (FEMA) Workforce Planning Act, bipartisan legislation that requires the Federal Emergency Management Agen  more

JEFFERSON, Louisiana, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 17, 2024: * * * Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after a major disaster declaration was granted in the wake of Hurricane Francine for Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Mary, and Terrebonne Parishes: "As South Louisiana continues to assess the damages from Hurricane Francine, it is critica  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 20, 2024: * * * Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement regarding the House Natural Resources Committee passage of his legislation to include Lafourche Parish, La., as part of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area (ANHA): "Louisiana is world-famous for our unique culture. From our distinct bayou landscapes to the diverse array of wildlife, so much of ou  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 18, 2024: * * * Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement on the House Committee on Homeland Security's report on the Biden-Harris Administration's border crisis: "Today, the Committee on Homeland Security released a report exposing the many ways the Biden-Harris Administration knowingly and intentionally undermined U.S. border security to create the crisis   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), and Congressman Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) to discuss the impact - which he has experienced personally - of dangerous rhetoric from the Left that has led to now multiple attempts on President Trump's life. Lea  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2024: Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. (D-LA) and Congressman Rudy Yakym (R-IN) introduced the bipartisan Preventing Roadside Deaths Act. This legislation would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to collect, analyze, compile, and publish accurate, detailed data on disabled roadside vehicle accidents and develop a strategic plan to stop these accidents. Three Southern Universit  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Garret Graves, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Rpreentatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today hosted a press conference alongside Americans who are currently being denied their hard-earned retirement benefits and retired police officers, firefighters, letter carriers, government employees, and educators to urge more Members of Congress to sign their discharge petition for the Social Security Fairness Act -- which cu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a floor speech condemning the Biden-Harris administration's actions that have led to the continued exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in its care. Cassidy'  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following his vote to oppose Democrats' latest political show vote on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) designed to misinform and scare voters ahead of the Novembe  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed the Biden-Harris administration for forcing call-center employees to unionize even if they do not want to join a union. These efforts threaten the closure of 12 call centers employing 10,000 emplo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Angus King (I-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced a resolution recognizing October 2024 as National Dyslexia Awareness   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced legislation to reauthorizes and strengthen AmeriCorps programs, which provide vital national service opportunities to more than 200,000 Americans each year in thousands   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2024: Last week, West Monroe Mayor Staci Albritton Mitchell and Louisiana Representative Michael Charles Echols appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to discuss Steward Health Care's financial mismanagement of Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA. In the h  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: The Senate unanimously passed the Southern Border Transparency Act, which Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, helped introduce. The bill, which Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led, would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue reports detailing how it is han  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 20, 2024: * * * Speaker Johnson released the below statement after the House passed the Enhanced Presidential Security Act of 2024, days after the second assassination attempt on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. "It is surreal to say that there was a second attempt on Donald Trump's life in less than two months. The current situation is dangerous, and he needs and dese  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: This afternoon, Speaker Johnson hosted a bipartisan Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony to honor Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s. These women, known as "The Hidden Figures  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: on Sept. 16, 2024 This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Fox & Friends to discuss his meeting with President Trump following the second failed assassination attempt yesterday, the secret service response, and he provided an update on the task force investigating the Butler, PA shooting. On meeting with President Trump: My wife Kelly and I were on the way to Mar-a-Lago when the shooting oc  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Tonight, Speaker Johnson addressed the media after 206 House Democrats voted against preventing a costly government shutdown and strengthening enforcement against non-American citizens and illegal aliens participating in American elections. Below are Speaker Johnson's full remarks: Well, everybody, you just watched the legislative process play out. The play that we ran   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 20, 2024: * * * Speaker Johnson released the following statement after the House passed HR 5717, the No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act: "While the Biden-Harris Administration was busy opening our borders to allow illegal aliens to flood into American communities, sanctuary cities were providing them with things like with free housing and healthcare - at the same time shielding the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: This morning, ahead of the House vote on a six month spending measure to avoid a government shutdown and protect American elections from noncitizen voting, SpeakerJohnson joined Fox News' Fox and Friends and CNBC's Squawk Box to implore Congressional Democrats to protect American elections, highlight the 2025 GOP economic agenda, and detail plans to expand the investigati  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Here's what to watch for on the House Floor today: Holding Sanctuary Cities Accountable to American Taxpayers Throughout the country, radical liberal 'sanctuary' states and cities like New York, California, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta disregard America's immigration laws, instead putting in place policies to prevent immigration enforcement and protect criminal aliens from ICE, includ  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Here's what to watch for on the House Floor today: Restoring Freedom and the Marketplace of Ideas to American Campuses American universities and colleges should be a safe space for students to explore ideas, educate themselves on topics they are interested in, and form their own opinions on world issues. Unfortunately, thanks to woke policies, radical faculty members,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: * * * Here's what to watch for on the House Floor today: Standing Up for American Women Against Criminal Illegal Immigrants Time and time again, shocking headlines flash across our screens and in the papers about illegal immigrants committing atrocious crimes against American citizens. In particular, many of these headlines reference rape and sexual assault against w  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Here's a recap of what Republicans achieved on the House Floor this week: Standing Up for American Women Against Criminal Illegal Immigrants Time and time again, shocking headlines flash across our screens and in the papers about illegal immigrants committing atrocious crimes against American citizens. In particular, many of these headlines reference rape and sexual assault against wo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced that the Senate has designated September 21 through September 28, 2024 as National Estuaries Week. Whitehouse and Cassidy led a bipartisan group of 29 Senate colleagues in introducing the resolution calling for the protection and restoration of America's estuaries. "Louisiana works hard to protect and rebuild our eroding coastline  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Welch on Senate Floor Last Week: "We can't expect our communities--those who are ravaged by disaster--to fight alone." Welch Joins Senators from Hawai'i, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, California, and Alaska Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and a group of bipartisan Senators in calling on Senate leadership to move quickly to pass additional funding to h  more