U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) released the following statement after voting yes on the U.S. House bill that ties hurricane recovery funding to stopgap emergency government funding. Initially, hurricane recovery funding was held hostage by the debt limit which was removed for a separate vote."We are exactly one month from Hurricane Ida making landfall and our efforts to… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves issued the following statement after the U.S House of Representatives leadership released a government funding bill, with an undefined amount of Hurricane Ida recovery funding included, provided 45 minutes to review the legislation, then withdrew and replaced the bill with a new version (without notice)."I appreciate President Biden coming down to view the… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) introduced more amendments to House Democrats' budget reconciliation package than any other House Member in an effort to create accountability and improve the $1.9 trillion mega-bill – which, contrary to its title, will do little to provide COVID-19 relief. Graves' amendments would recalibrate these dollars in ways that would actually… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Rules introduced in the Social Security Amendments of 1983 were intended to do some good by preventing those who collect a government salary from double dipping by getting the same advantages in Social Security payment calculations as private workers. However, two of those rules are catching federal, state, and parish workers… Read more »
Substantial reforms to the Food Stamp Program that Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) introduced last year through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Reform Act of 2017 advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives today as provisions of the 2018 Farm Bill. With more than 100 cosponsors, support for the SNAP Reform Act amounted to a groundswell of Members who… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves's legislation to fix the flawed ‘duplication of benefits' policy passed in the U.S. House of Representatives today, along with a number of other top priorities for Louisianans addressed in HR. 4, "The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018." The bipartisan package to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration includes the Disaster Recovery Reform Act… Read more »
One year after the Great Flood of 2016, a cadre of delegates from Washington, D.C., brought HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson to little Livingston Parish to view the recovery.Well, the good doctor probably thought it was fairly little.His comments at the subsequent news conference appeared the right words to say, at the time, and he vowed that – with help from the delegates that brought… Read more »
DENHAM SPRINGS – Congressman Garret Graves on Thursday blasted the federally funded Restore Louisiana program for its sluggish award distribution for 2016 flood victims in Livingston and other parishes.The congressman made his comments during the March 29 meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Denham Springs.Restore Louisiana has doled out only $60 million of the $1.7 billion flood recovery… Read more »
After championing progress made toward improving U.S. infrastructure and the economy, U.S. Rep. Garret Graves said some areas in Congress and nationwide are "still broken"—like the growing national debt, the ongoing health care and gun debates and rampant political divisiveness, which he calls the biggest threat to our country. Graves, speaking today to the Rotary Club of Baton… Read more »
