BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) issued the following statement after East Baton Rouge (EBR) Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Iberville Parish President Mitchell Ourso announced their recommendation to improve drainage along Bayou Manchac at the border of the two parishes. The plan to clear and snag Bayou Manchac from Highway 30 to the… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves, the Ranking Member of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Aviation, and U.S. Congressman Sam Graves, Ranking Member of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure, wrote to President Biden to convey their concerns following reports that the White House is pressuring U.S. air carriers to require their employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8,… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) released the following statement after the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced proposals that would roll back improvements made during the Trump administration to reform the nation's project delivery system."For those of you that have been begging for more red tape, more traffic, more flooding, more lawyers, more… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) released the following statement after the second phase of the LA 1 corridor project was let today. Louisiana Highway 1 received a $135 million grant from U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to construct approximately 8.3 miles of elevated highway from Leeville Bridge to Golden Meadow – the largest transportation grant awarded in… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves joined members of Louisiana's Congressional Delegation in setting the record straight on how infrastructure legislation currently before Congress would affect Louisiana. The letter was released following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's withdrawal of $4.3 trillion social welfare expansion and $1.2 trillion stimulus and infrastructure bills. Graves… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves, the Ranking Member of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Aviation, and Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. released the following statements regarding Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) receiving $5,845,00 in discretionary funding to upgrade the airport infrastructure. The funds will be awarded from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and will be… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) released the following statement after voting yes on the U.S. House bill that ties hurricane recovery funding and the reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to stopgap emergency government funding (CR). Unfortunately, the CR does not include a delay of Risk Rating 2.0. "As Louisianians struggle to put their lives and… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) released the following statement after voting yes on the U.S. House bill that ties hurricane recovery funding to stopgap emergency government funding. Initially, hurricane recovery funding was held hostage by the debt limit which was removed for a separate vote."We are exactly one month from Hurricane Ida making landfall and our efforts to… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) announced today that the Corps of Engineers has awarded a $20,980,000 contract to a Louisiana business, Rigid Constructors, LLC to advance the Comite Flood Control Project. The funding will go toward excavating the channel between Cypress Bayou and Bayou Baton Rouge (approximately between LA 19 and LA 964). Graves released the following… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) announced $1,785,511 in grant funding to elevate 51 properties at risk of flooding in Livingston Parish."A lot of people think the solution to flooding is just charging higher flood insurance rates. We believe the solution is preventing people from ever flooding. In addition to the billions of dollars we've secured for regional flood… Read more »
