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 »
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. Congressman Garret Graves (Louisiana) announced today that fishing communities will receive a total of $27,152,411 in fishery disaster funding to offset the impacts of both the 2020 and 2021 hurricane seasons on Louisiana's fisheries. The funding was allocated by Congress in the 2023 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act for multiple fisheries disasters.
"South… Read more »
U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (Louisiana) and Stacey Plaskett (U.S. Virgin Islands) introduced bipartisan disaster relief legislation to expedite immediate disaster recovery funds to states in the aftermath of a major disaster.
Under the existing process, getting recovery funding to victims may take years. The bill changes the status quo and provides local and state governments… Read more »
After U.S. Congressman Garret Graves repeatedly pushed for the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to declare a "Fishery Disaster Determination" due to the impacts of Hurricane Ida in 2021, the agency announced today that they would finally make the disaster declaration more than two years after the storm occurred.
“Immediately after Hurricane Ida, we secured $200 million in… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement:
“Even though it has been two years since Hurricane Ida’s landfall, victims in south Louisiana are still feeling the impact. Immediately after the storm passed, we worked to secure and deliver funds to help people recover, but folks still have blue tarps on their roofs, some spend… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement:
“The Mississippi River built Louisiana – and finally reconnecting it with coastal areas that are currently starved of freshwater and sediment will ensure our future,” Graves said. “Today is also an incredible milestone for our Coastal Master Plan. By allowing science… Read more »
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that the West Shore Hurricane Protection Project will need approximately $1.27 billion in additional funding to complete the project. Specifically, the Corps says the funds are needed to deliver the project to its authorized levee elevations and complete the system’s pump stations and drainage structures.
U.S. Congressman Garret… 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 »
