U.S. Congressmen Garret Graves, Henry Cuellar, and Mike Bost introduced bipartisan legislation to make intentionally causing collisions with motor carriers a federal crime. Their legislation, the Highway Accident Fairness Act of 2023, will reduce unnecessary lawsuits, lower car insurance rates, and increase safety on our roads.
Investigations into more than 150 accidents in the New… Read more »
U.S. Representatives Garret Graves and Sharice Davids introduced bipartisan legislation to expand access to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s current Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP). Expanding access to this voluntary program will increase roadway safety and help to address supply chain shortfalls.
The Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act (H.R.… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced that the State of Louisiana and several specific Louisiana parishes will receive $156,161,552.64 in the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) energy revenues which are awarded to the four Gulf offshore oil and gas-producing states. Graves drafted and negotiated the law. Louisiana invests the revenues from energy lease sales directly… Read more »
U.S. Congressmen Garret Graves and Salud Carbajal have introduced bipartisan legislation to bring traffic management and planning into the 21st Century. H.R. 1500, the Intelligent Transportation Integration Act, will create a federal program to leverage existing data to actively manage traffic flow today and plan more efficient roadways for tomorrow.
"We are using traffic light… Read more »
The U.S. House Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure committees will begin discussions tomorrow on permitting reform. At 2:00 PM EST tomorrow, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the Building U.S. Infrastructure through Limited Delays & Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act. A link to watch can be found HERE."Government bureaucracy is… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement regarding the Humble Canal Floodgate Groundbreaking Ceremony today, a critical component of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection System. Graves has secured $410 million for the project to date, including $12.46 million specifically for the Humble Canal Floodgate."Today should confirm for thousands of families and… Read more »
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 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 »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) statement on Biden Administration's Political Allocation of Funding:"Nearly one-third of the authorized U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' water resources projects in the entire country are in the State of Louisiana. We drain two-thirds of the continental United States from the north and have lost nearly 2,000 square miles of our coast largely… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement about over $13,000,000 in improvements to 12.6 miles of LA 70 in Assumption Parish. The project is funded with 80 percent federal funding and will include milling, patching, overlay and drainage on LA 70 from the intersection of Highway 1 in Paincourtville, west and south to Pierre Part. "Highway 70… Read more »
