Federal Level

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will grant the Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District $18,623,506.00 to rehabilitate both Pointe à la Hache ferry landings as a result of damage from Hurricanes Ida, Zeta, Delta, and Laura, and Tropical Storm Harvey. It also addresses critical evacuation route needs.

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Tim Scott (R-SC), Jim Risch (R-ID), and 23 Republican colleagues demanded the national security supplemental bill include “an immediate and permanent prohibition” of U.S. aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) in introducing the Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act.

The Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) today unanimously passed Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Gary Peters’s (D-Mich.), chairman of HSGAC, Helping Eliminate Limitations for Prompt (HELP) Response and Recovery Act.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) today introduced the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act to address reports indicating that Palestinian students are being taught inaccurate or racist content about Israel and the Jewish people.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) today authored a bill to ban U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) permanently.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. today served as the top Republican during a U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on veterans’ mental health. 

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Tim Scott (R-SC), and fifteen Republican colleagues introduced the Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act, which depoliticizes the export of American liquefied natural gas (LNG). It eliminates the requirement for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to authorize its export and instead giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sole authority over the approval process. 

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting relief for Louisiana’s crawfish industry as a result of the severe drought in 2023 and recent freeze that has devastated production.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) released a statement after the Louisiana Legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee approved a plan to build a new I-10 bridge over the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles, Louisiana with $150 million from Cassidy’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).