Federal Level

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded a $108,281,936 contract for repairs to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility in Louisiana. 

On the two-year anniversary of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) being signed into law, United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) released the following statement and booklet celebrating its success. 

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) reintroduced the Disaster Learning and Life Saving Act, bipartisan legislation that would create an independent board to investigate major natural disasters nationwide.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statement on the long-awaited Lease Sale 261.

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ted Budd (R-NC), and forty-four Republican colleagues raised questions over the decision announced last month by the Bureau of Industry and Security to pause for ninety days the issuance of export licenses for firearms, ammunition, and certain accessories to most overseas markets.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) spoke on the Senate floor about the need to make insulin less expensive for Americans who suffer from diabetes by passing the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which Kennedy and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) introduced.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) penned this op-ed in the Washington Examiner warning that the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) places the private information of 158 million American investors at risk.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) in raising concerns to Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about the Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) announcement that it will not issue new export licenses involving certain firearms, related components and ammunition for 90 days.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) in demanding that President Joe Biden enforce sanctions against Iranian oil sales and permanently freeze the transfer of $6 billion in assets to Tehran from the Biden administration’s September hostage negotiation.

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation to improve transparency of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and ensure these plans are best serving the health care needs of America’s seniors.