Federal Level

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) today warned his colleagues that transgender activists are threatening the future of women’s sports in the United States.

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that Cole Ritter, an eleventh grader at Southside High School in Youngsville is the winner of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition for Louisiana’s 3rd District.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $2.2 million grant to the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana located in Elton.

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced that his bill H.R. 7528, the Comment Integrity and Management Act of 2024, passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statement after the release of the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds annual report examining how much longer these programs can pay full benefits promised to taxpayers without significant benefit cuts.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today held the Biden administration’s feet to the fire for their failure to adequately demonstrate they will comply with the law and hold oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico during a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. 

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and all other Republican members of the committee in urging Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to hold a hearing regarding civil rights violations of Jewish students and the growing support for terrorist ideology on college campuses.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and thirty-three other colleagues in urging the Biden administration not to bring Gazan refugees to the U.S. and to focus instead on bringing American hostages back home.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and all other Republican senators in demanding that President Joe Biden withdraw his administration’s support for two international agreements being considered at this month’s World Health Assembly (WHA).

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary and Appropriations Committees, today introduced the Heroes Over Aliens Act to prohibit the use of federal dollars to house illegal aliens in the United States when veterans remain homeless.