**VIDEO: Ahead of the Vote, Graves & Spanberger Spoke on the U.S. House Floor to Urge Their Colleagues to Support the Bipartisan “Social Security Fairness Act”
U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today released the following statement after a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the Social Security… Read more »
Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) today announced the historic groundbreaking of “Reach A” in Dularge, Louisiana, of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf (MTG) hurricane protection project alongside project partners Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District (TLCD), the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) announced today $31,792,820.68 in federal disaster reimbursements to Lafourche Parish, Lafourche Parish Schools, Terrebonne Parish, Terrebonne Parish Schools, Port Fourchon, and SLECA.
“These funds are welcome but come with consequences when delivered years later – skyrocketing inflation shortens the length that these critical rebuilding… Read more »
Congressman Garret Graves and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise introduced legislation today to add Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, among the parishes and counties included in the Delta Regional Authority (DRA), a federal agency that promotes economic development and community resiliency in America’s Delta Region. Graves is a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and… Read more »
Following the discharge petition led by U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) reaching the 218 signatures necessary to force a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on their bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), several organizations… Read more »
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U.S. Rpreentatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today hosted a press conference alongside Americans who are currently being denied their hard-earned retirement benefits and retired police officers, firefighters, letter carriers, government employees, and… Read more »
Graves & Spanberger: “Today is a Major Milestone Made Possible by Tireless Advocates Who’ve Made Clear that Congress Must Act”
U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today announced that their discharge petition for the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act has hit 218 signatures — the number required to force a vote in the U.S. House of… Read more »
Prolific Graves “running through the tape” with most bills passed in yesterday’s mark up
Critical disaster and safety legislation authored by Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee yesterday – just one week after Hurricane Francine made landfall. The combination of three FEMA bills, if enacted, will streamline… Read more »
U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (R-LA-06) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today announced that 119 of their colleagues — both Democrats and Republicans — signed their discharge petition for the Social Security Fairness Act on the same day that the pair filed the petition. The lawmakers are already more than halfway to securing the 218 signatures required to force a vote in the U.S.… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (R-LA), co-author of H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, made the following statement in response to the $195.6 billion Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of future Social Security graft at the expense of public service retirees.
“The CBO has confirmed: if H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, is not signed into law this year, $195.6… Read more »
