Federal Level

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.

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Budd (R-NC), and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced the Terrorist Inadmissibility Codification Act to combat the spread of pro-Hamas and pro-terrorist activity.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led the introduction of judicial reform legislation. 

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) released the following statement after voting against former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s nomination to become U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) penned a joint op-ed in Fox News Digital discussing their recent bipartisan trip to China to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) penned this op-ed in Newsweek urging Congress to work together to prevent Iran and other state sponsors of terrorism from receiving billions of dollars in special drawing rights from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without congressional approval.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Senators Chris Coons (D-Conn.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in urging Senate leadership to prioritize the reauthorization of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Todd Young (R-IN), and nine Republican colleagues expressed deep concern about the rise in terrorists crossing the southern border and asking for plans to bolster border and internal security measures in a letter to President Joe Biden.

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.