WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2023: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted the 90 organizations that wrote in support of his bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) new joint employe  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - Today in Baton Rouge, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) met with members of CRISIS (Capital Region Industry for Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions) and discussed the opportunities available from his Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will improve the region's transportation grid. "Private industry is working to make it easier for their employees and neighbors to get back to   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Republican Finance Committee members called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for greater accountability, transparency and a detailed explanation of specific steps it is taking to address security weaknesses at the agency in a letter to IRS Commissioner Werfel. The letter comes in the wake of continued oversight reports revealing serious d  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Here's what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week: Armed Services On Wednesday, November 15, the Committee on Armed Services will hold a full committee hearing called "Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States." * * * Education and Workforce On Tuesday, November 14, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Developm  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Rep. Garret Graves, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (Louisiana) and Stacey Plaskett (U.S. Virgin Islands) introduced bipartisan disaster relief legislation to expedite immediate disaster recovery funds to states in the aftermath of a major disaster. Under the existing process, getting recovery funding to victims may take years. The bill changes the status quo and provides local and state governments with upfront federal   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $2,374,819 to Lafayette Regional Airport and $1,041,789 to Lake Charles Regional Airport through the Airport Infrastructure Grant (AIG) program. "While I opposed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in its totality as a matter of principle, some of the proposals in the bill   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,110,899 in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for Louisiana disaster aid. "Hurricane Laura struck south Louisiana hard and left buildings with water damage. I'm glad to see that this $1.1 million will help Lake Charles Memorial Hospital address mold from the storm," said Kennedy. T  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $7,110,058 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants for Louisiana disaster aid. "South Louisiana is still recovering from Hurricanes Laura and Ida. I'm thankful for this $7.1 million, which will help cover repair costs at McNeese University and in Lafourche Parish," said Kennedy. The FEMA aid will fund  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $8,694,727 in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for Louisiana disaster aid. "Hurricanes Laura and Ida did a great deal of damage to so many buildings and facilities in Louisiana. I'm grateful this $8.7 million will help Louisianians rebuild and repair," said Kennedy. The FEMA aid wil  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Watch Kennedy's full exchange with Gruenberg here. WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today urged Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Martin Gruenberg to step down after reports documenting the FDIC has tolerated a toxic work environment under his tenure. Kennedy questioned Gruenberg at a Senate Banking Committee Hearing on Nov. 14, 2023 about  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Watch Kennedy's comments here. WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today spoke on the Senate floor to commend school choice as a path to success for Louisiana students and families. Key comments from Kennedy's remarks include: "I regret to say, Mr. President, that roughly half of my students in Louisiana, in grades K through three, are not reading at the grade-level. Half. Only one-third of my kids i  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) penned this op-ed in the Washington Examiner warning that the SEC's Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) places the private information of 158 million American investors at risk. He urges his colleagues to join him in prohibiting the SEC from collecting information on every transaction that investors make and in requiring the SEC to delete the information it has already gathered. Key e  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Watch Kennedy's full remarks here. WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) spoke on the Senate floor about the need to make insulin less expensive for Americans who suffer from diabetes by passing the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which Kennedy and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) introduced. The senator's remarks also highlight findings from his and Warnock's bipartisan report titled, "Insulin Deserts: The Urg  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Jacklyn Rosen (D-Nev.) in urging the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Linda Thomas-Greenfield, to bring a resolution to the UN Security Council recognizing and imposing sanctions on Hamas as a terrorist organization.  "Recent events have demonstrated that Hamas' actions, tactics, and stated goals are in many ways indistinguish  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) in demanding that President Joe Biden enforce sanctions against Iranian oil sales and permanently freeze the transfer of $6 billion in assets to Tehran from the Biden administration's September hostage negotiation. "For far too long, Iran has evaded consequence for its complacency in funding radical terror. To prevent further at  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today joined Ranking Member Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and all other Republican colleagues on the Banking Committee in urging the Biden administration to withdraw the Basel III Endgame proposal.  Financial regulators will appear before the committee Tuesday to answer questions regarding what impact regulations, such as the Basel III Endgam  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) issued a bipartisan report titled, "Insulin Deserts: The Urgency of Lowering the Cost of Insulin for Everyone" that highlights insulin disparities across the U.S. The senators' report confirms the need to make prices for the life-saving medicine more affordable for Americans who suffer from diabetes. In March, Kennedy and Warnock introduced the Afford  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 16, 2023: Following a letter by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, notifying the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that they were out of compliance with the Congressional Review Act (CRA) 60-day threshold rule, the NLRB announced   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Rep. Garret Graves, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2023: U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (R-LA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Mary Peltola (D-AK), and Rob Wittman (R-VA) have launched the bipartisan American Seafood Caucus to provide a forum for seafood policy champions to find common ground and ensure that healthy, domestically produced, seafood doesn't take a backseat to foreign products that often don't uphold our quality and sustainability stand  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Click here or the image above to view Leader Scalise's full remarks. On changing the way we fund the government: "As [Whip Emmer] talked about, we have a number of items to take care of. And today, front and center, is passing the government funding bill that I want to commend our speaker for negotiating, and frankly, for breaking a paradigm here in Washington. One of our bigges  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Mornings with Maria Bartiromo Click here or the image above to watch the full interview. On breaking the Christmas omnibus cycle: "If you think about what we broke: The cycle that Speaker Johnson wanted to break was ending these Christmas omnibuses. I think you, so many others, a lot of us have been frustrated when you get to Christmas Eve, you see Congress bringing a 3,000-pag  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: On President Biden releasing funds to Iran: "This is crazy - it's insanity. And in fact, Thursday of this week, Larry, we're going to have a vote on the House floor to block the $6 billion in transfers that Joe Biden wants to send to Iran in that hostage slot. "And as you talked about earlier, think about this: Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism. They are the funder o  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: "This court decision requiring the offshore lease sale to move forward is welcome news for American families and small businesses that are sick and tired of liberal special interests and the Biden Administration doing everything in their power to shut down American energy production. We are seeing the real-time consequences of this administration's energy failures as President Bide  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate HELP Committee, introduced the Helping Young Americans Save for Retirement Act. The legislation would help more Americans ages 18 to 20 years old access employer-spo  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to open an investigation into the use of the federal Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) to provide health   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the U.S. Senate floor ahead of a vote on his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden's new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of bach  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the U.S. Senate floor ahead of a vote on his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden's new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of bach  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today's hearing on labor unions. Cassidy's speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders. Frankly, it is puzzling that we are hav  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on Nov. 15, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following U.S. Senate Democrats voting against his Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn President Biden's new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule. This rule wi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on Nov. 16, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that the Biden administration was prepared to transfer $430 billion in student loan debt onto taxpayers wit  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested information from two of the largest community health center (CHC) systems as part of his ongoing investigation into how health care providers use revenue generated from the 340B Drug Pricing Program.   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, secured a commitment from Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to return $127 million in taxpayer dollars that was wrongfully paid to the Central States Pension Fund as part of the Democrats' pension bailout. The Ce  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 16, 2023: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Rand Paul (R-KY), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, blasted the Department of Education (ED) for misusing the "Controlled Unclassified   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: On Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas had their first meeting in the U.S. Capitol. They discussed ongoing challenges and areas of mutual security and economic cooperation, including support for Israel, the war in Ukraine, deterrence of coercive actors, and support for religious freedom. Speaker Johnson and Prime Minister Kallas look forward to working to  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * On Friday night, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after Moody's Investor Service announced that they had downgraded the U.S. credit rating from "stable" to "negative": "Moody's Investor Service downgrade of the U.S. credit rating is the latest example of the failure of President Biden and Democrats reckless spending agenda. Our $33.6 trillion debt is unsustainable and   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * On Saturday afternoon, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after announcing plans for a two-step CR to keep the government open and avoid a holiday omnibus package: "This two-step continuing resolution is a necessary bill to place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories. The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of m  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * On Tuesday, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after House passage of the two-step continuing resolution: "The passage of today's continuing resolution puts House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative policy victories. "The innovative two-step approach takes Washington's preferred Christmas omnibus monstrosity off the table, shifts the government fu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) was elected to be the next Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference. "I want to congratulate Congressman Blake Moore on being elected Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference. "I am looking forward to working with him and the rest of our united leadership team as we continue de  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Reforming Washington's Appropriations Process and Averting a Shutdown For too long, responsible spending has been a foreign concept to Washington, sticking the American people with a national debt that now exceeds $33.6 trillion. House Republicans are on a mission to cut wasteful Washington spending and reduce our out of control debt. Already, the House has passed seven of the 12  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Here's what to watch for on the House Floor this week: Freezing Funds That Enable Iranian Backed Terrorism In August 2023, Biden struck a deal with the Iranian government to unfreeze $6 billion and release Iranian prisoners in exchange for the release of five Americans. While it is imperative we work to free Americans being held by adversaries around the globe, releasing $6 billi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Since U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee and the Finance Committee, introduced the Foreign Pollution Fee, support for the bill has grown. The Foreign Pollution Fee is an American plan to address the nexus between energy, economic development, supply chains, national security, and the environment at the expense of China and Russia. The F  more