Legislation expected to imminently pass the U.S. House of Representatives and be signed into law includes numerous wins for Louisiana. This bill - the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA) - will deliver better flood control, coastal restoration and hurricane protection, as well as direct investments in our ports and waterways.
Graves included numerous pro-Louisiana provisions… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced today the following disaster recovery information:"We previously secured $1,272,346,000 to provide direct assistance to Hurricane Ida victims for recovery. Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an additional $831,502,000 for Hurricane Ida recovery and the May 2021 rainbomb. This brings the… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – A bill pushed by U.S. Congressman Garret Graves to help parishes, cities, towns, school districts, and other disaster-affected areas recover faster from a disaster was signed into law. Graves worked with local flood and hurricane victims and local and state officials to get this legislation to the finish line.Before the legislation, local "small projects" –… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – Earlier this year, U.S. Congressman Garret Graves secured funding to help clear the law enforcement DNA evidence processing backlog in the Capital Region. This will help fight violent crime and expedite putting criminals in jail.Graves asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today to expedite transferring the secured federal funding to the East Baton Rouge… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is purchasing up to $25 million of Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Wild-Caught Shrimp. This will help provide relief to Louisiana's shrimp industry which has faced several hardships in a row: Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters, repeated openings of the… Read more »
DONALDSONVILLE, LA – Federal, state and local leaders broke ground on the Bayou Lafourche Mississippi River Re-Introduction and Pumping Capacity Improvement Project in Donaldsonville on Friday. The project went out to bid for construction in January 2022 after receiving the final U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) permit in November 2021.U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves is asking the Biden Administration to prioritize the U.S. sugarcane farmers over foreign sugar supplies. Graves' ask to rely on American sugarcane farms comes as the Biden Administration is being pushed to increase imports of foreign sugar."Agriculture is a critical part of Louisiana's economy and sugarcane in particular results in $3… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced today $18,857,854.96 in federal funding from FEMA for the Terrebonne Parish School Board's remediation costs. This reimbursement covers 100 percent of the costs to clean out, dehumidify, conduct mold remediation, purchase generators, and other efforts to get Terrebonne Parish schools back online after Hurricane Ida.### Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced today $7,325,658.22 in federal funding from FEMA.Grantee: Ascension Parish Costs related to May 2021 Flood response Amount: $1,646,686.75Grantee: Terrebonne Parish School Board Repairs to 28 school buildings that sustained roof damage during Hurricane Ida Amount: $5,678,971.47### Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement:"The president continues to acknowledge that we need additional oil supply to help bring prices down. That is good news; however, what is inexcusable is that he is tapping our emergency oil reserves rather than tapping available production in the Gulf of Mexico. Our emergency reserves are for… Read more »
