Federal Level

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) cosponsored legislation introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to establish a coordinated multi-agency response and create new tools to tackle evolving trends in organized retail theft. Organized retail crime costs retailers $720,000 for every $1 billion in sales – up 50 percent since 2015.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) today introduced the Emergency Advance Payments Modernization Act, a bill to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) quickly issue National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) advance payments by modernizing the technology the agency uses to respond to natural disasters.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $3,764,905 in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for Louisiana disaster aid.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) grilled Biden administration officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on their hostility towards oil and gas development during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources and Finance Committees, led 14 Republican colleagues in opposing a carbon tax.

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and U.S. Representatives Kathy Manning (D-NC-06), Chris Smith (R-NJ-04), and 59 Members of Congress requested the immediate attention of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray to prioritize resources that help protect the safety and security of Jewish Americans, religious institutions, and organizations in our nation that are vulnerable to increased threats and violence as a result of the terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN-03) and 20 Republican members urged Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to rename the “Black Lives Matter Plaza” and remove the street painting that reads “Black Lives Matter.” 

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced Louisiana will receive $2,394,009.51 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Hurricane Ida relief. Terrebonne Parish will receive $1,075,803.19 in federal funding for building repairs to the main branch library in Houma as a direct result of the hurricane.

The Senate today passed Senator John Kennedy’s (R-La.) amendment to an appropriations bill that would prevent veterans from losing their Second Amendment right to purchase or own firearms when they receive help managing their Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, today joined Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and nine other Republican senators in a letter urging Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to investigate how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has utilized consumer payment systems to steal Americans’ private data.