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 »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Aviation, made the following statement after an additional $51,210,230 federal funding was awarded today to Louisiana airports by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) – of which more than 55%, or $28 million, is dedicated to airports represented by Graves.
“Today’s announcement builds on the historic… 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 »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced today that Louisiana has received a seventh "Marine Highway Grant" since 2016 – now totaling over $10,000,000 in investment. This Maritime Administration (MARAD) Grant, in coordination with the Port of Baton Rouge, will help to purchase 70 container chassis to help support the "marine highway" between Baton Rouge to… Read more »
LEEVILLE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement regarding the milestone groundbreaking for the elevation of LA-1 taking place today in Leeville, Louisiana. The new, elevated highway project, stretching from Golden Meadow to Leeville (8.3 miles), was partially financed in 2020 with a $135 million federal grant."Officially known as the ‘Billy… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves predicts a second surge in gasoline and electricity prices because of Russia's "veiled" invasion of Ukraine. Graves explains why this event will undermine Israeli security in the Middle East, bolster Chinese-Russian leverage and cost all Americans more to drive, heat/cool homes and the cost of making groceries. The United States has also increased its… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) joined colleagues in a letter urging President Biden to reconsider policy positions that are delaying the movement of goods and services, idling our ports, causing bare shelves in stores and driving up costs. "This supply chain crisis was entirely preventable. Whether lingering COVID unemployment, incentivizing NOT working, vaccine-related… Read more »
The irresponsible U.S. Corps of Engineers' (Corps) planned budget announced by the Biden Administration threatens to further drive-up gasoline cost and worsen flooding in our communities. Specifically, in President Biden's budget, the Corps is prohibited from funding any project that could be construed as "lowering the cost of consumption" of gasoline and natural gas. In other words,… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves and U.S. Congresswoman Julia Letlow met with stakeholders in East Feliciana to address their limited access to reliable Internet service. There are billions of dollars in federal funding available that Graves and Letlow identified for citizens, schools, healthcare providers, and parish leaders to help improve Internet access in East Feliciana. Click here or… Read more »
After more than 40 years of study, the overdue, much needed, highly anticipated West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection Project has broken ground. The first part of the legislative breakthrough for the 18-mile levee project to protect portions of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and St. James parishes was achieved in 2016 when Graves inserted language in federal law to… Read more »
