Federal Level

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) co-sponsored Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio) VA Home Loan Awareness Act of 2023, which would help veterans finance homes with benefits available to them from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Loan Program.

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today introduced the Manifest Modernization Act to bring greater transparency to shipments crossing U.S. borders to help stop the trafficking of drugs and illegal goods.

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and nine Senate Finance Committee members introduced a resolution calling for the strengthening of economic ties between the U.S. and Israel.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee and the Finance Committee, led the introduction of his Foreign Pollution Fee alongside Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Roger Wicker (R-MS).

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) in introducing the National Oversight of Transported Immigrants to Communities is Essential (NOTICE) Act to require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to notify states and localities when the department transports migrants into their communities.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) has joined Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act of 2023 to sanction purchases of Iranian oil.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) in introducing the Standing Against Houthi Aggression Act to redesignate Ansarallah, more commonly known as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), given the group’s actions to destabilize the region, the security threat it poses to the U.S., and most recently, its involvement in the ongoing attacks on Israel. 

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and 24 Republican colleagues introduced the Southern Border Transparency Act, which would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to accurately report how it is handling migrants encountered at the border and ensure the American people have a full accounting of the number of migrants being released into the United States by the Biden administration along with information detailing where they are coming from.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) in introducing the Southern Border Transparency Act to require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue reports detailing the number of aliens seeking entry along the southern border.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Senator J.D. Vance and all other Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee in urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to reverse its guidance requiring lenders to open lines of credit for illegal immigrants.