Federal Level

United States Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and John Boozman (R-AR) announced their bipartisan legislation to authorize a permanent electronic duck stamp for the entirety of a waterfowl hunting season was signed into law by President Joe Biden Tuesday.

President Joe Biden has vetoed Sen. John Kennedy’s (R-La.) Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval, which would have prohibited the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from enforcing its Dodd Frank Section 1071 small business data collection rule.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) issued a statement following a successful Lease Sale 261.

President Joe Biden signed Senator John Kennedy’s (R-La.) 5G Spectrum Authority Licensing Enforcement (SALE) Act into law.

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $1,709,291 to Lafayette Regional Airport for future development.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, penned this op-ed in The Hill calling for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Martin Gruenberg to resign.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) in introducing the Financial Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction Act.

The Senate has passed Senator John Kennedy’s (R-La.) initiative to establish a Special Inspector General (IG) for Ukraine as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced the Department of Transportation (DOT) will grant the Port of New Orleans a total of $73,779,805.00 from his Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for the construction of a new container terminal in St. Bernard Parish along the Mississippi River that is not air-draft restricted.

United States Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) will receive an $88,300,000.00 Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan for the LA 415 Interconnector Project – Phase 1 (the “Project”).