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A number of people called our office this week to share their thoughts about Puerto Rico's financial crisis. I shared mine during a Facebook Q&A earlier this week.
Washington, DC – Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement today after the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement released the Final Well Control Rule:
Many of our friends or family members were impacted by last month's flooding. FEMA recently opened a recovery center in Satsuma, Louisiana to provide help to those who need recovery assistance.
George Orwell famously critiqued how politicians use language “to make lies sound truthful” and “to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” The Obama Administration’s claimed support of an “all of the above” energy strategy is as Orwellian as it is disingenuous.
Washington, DC – Congressmen Garret Graves (R-Baton Rouge) and Charles Boustany, Jr., MD, (R-Lafayette) led a letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting that language be included in the Interior, Environment and Related Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2017 prohibiting the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) from using any funds for the implementation of the age
US Representative Garret Graves is taking advantage of technology to enhance communication with his constituents.
In an E-Newsletter earlier this month, I asked readers to participate in an online poll asking which issue should be a top priority for Congress. These polls are useful because they provide real-time input and can help me do a better job of representing you – so, thank you for taking it.
How would you feel if the federal government took all of the gold in Fort Knox and gave it to a few dozen unelected, unaccountable people to decide how to manage it behind closed doors? How would you feel if that same small group unsurprisingly decided to split the country’s gold among themselves – each becoming multi-millionaires?
On the eve of the United States’ shipping off its first load of natural gas – through the almost finished Sabine Pass facility here in Louisiana – another country is laying the groundwork to export natural gas as well.
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U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (R – South Louisiana) has introduced the Ships to Be Recycled in the States (STORIS) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill aims to reform the domestic marine recycling industry. Read more about the STORIS Act here.
U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, introduced the Founding Legacies of Reserve Integral Combat-training Heroes Act, or FLORICH, named for Staff Sgt. Thomas Florich, who was one of 11 servicemen killed in a March helicopter crash. Read the full story here.
Washington, DC - Congressman Graves (R - South Louisiana) sent a letter to the president criticizing the effect of the president’s harmful tax, labor and environmental regulatory policies on American businesses’ global competiveness and promised vehement opposition to any future trade deal that fails to protect American jobs and sovereignty.
WASHINGTON -- America has a problem with its aging highways and public transit systems. On that, there's general consensus.
But what to do about it remains unresolved and the issue is subject to sometimes bitter partisan battles.
U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, from Louisiana’s 6th congressional district, was the guest speaker at the Zachary Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Lunch and Learn networking event March 31 at the Americana YMCA.
Congressman Garret Graves of Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District and former head of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will be the keynote speaker at Restore or Retreat’s annual membership meeting on April 1 in Thibodaux.
Garret Graves spent a rainy Thursday traveling around Ascension to meet with various of his constituents and was asked variations of the same question by parish residents who probably got stuck in traffic on the way to meet there brand new Congressman. Graves was inaugurated as Louisiana’s 6th District Congressman two months ago and this was his first opportunity come home from D. C.
United States Congressman Garret Graves (La-06) is beginning his term representing the East Bank of Ascension Parish people with the people.
The Louisiana congressional delegation is continuing efforts to block a budget proposal by the Obama administration to reverse 2006 energy legislation providing revenue sharing to Louisiana and three other Gulf states for off-shore oil and gas production.
Congressman Garret Graves joined other memebers of Louisiana's Congressional Delegation and defended the right of Congress to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in a comment last week.