{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "where chamber = \"House\", state = \"LA\" and year = 2019 sorted by date descending", "rows": [["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-speaker-pelosi-demanding-her-own-quid-pro-quo", "Scalise: Speaker Pelosi Demanding Her Own Quid Pro Quo", "2019-12-29", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel'sFox News Sundayto discusshow Speaker Pelosi's Democrat majority did not come to Congress to work for American families. Instead, they came to Congress to remove a duly-elected President in an attempt to gain their power back. Now, in her own quid pro quo, Speaker Pelosi refuses to send her articles of impeachment to the Senate unless they meet her ludicrous partisan demands. House Democrats claimed their case was compelling, but now they want the Senate to do more investigating. It's become clear that this is purely political exercise for Democrats and was never about a crime. It's time to move on.  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\nOn the wave of anti-Semitic attacks in New York and New Jersey: \"It's really alarming, and we're seeing a growing anti-Semitism. It's something that we all need to speak out against, people of all faiths, because you know whether it's a synagogue in Pittsburgh, whether it's the home of an Orthodox Rabbi, we all need to stand up and say it's wrong to attack people based on their faith. And to see this anti-Semitism growing throughout our country, it's something we all need to not only be alarmed about, but also stand up against.\" [...] \"I think our reaction needs to be quick and direct, that anti-Semitism is wrong, that attacks on people of faith are wrong, and that regardless of who's attacked we're going to stand up against it, not try to figure out who did it that's law enforcement's job and law enforcement is doing a great job, by the way, of making sure that they're getting the suspect.Too often in Washington, you see people trying to figure out somebody's motives instead of just saying it's wrong and attack it, call it out for what it is. Anti-Semitism is wrong, we need to stand up against it, and it's unfortunately starting to pop up all around the country more and more, so we need to stand up and be very vocal and very united against it.\" On Speaker Pelosi turning the Democrat party into the party of impeachment: \"Well it's [the House's] duty to turn [the articles of impeachment] over. It's not like some mechanism she can control. The House passed it, they shouldn't have. I mean, you look at what the evidence was, and Speaker Pelosi wanted to talk about the evidence. Every one of their witnesses testified under oath saying there was no crime, saying there was no quid pro quo. Maybe she's trying to carry out her own quid pro quo by acting as if she's got some kind of role in the Senate trial. They had a weak case, I think she knows they had a weak case. There was no evidence and no crime committed, and yet they still wanted to impeachthe President to appease their radical base. That's what this was about from the beginning. They've neglected a real agenda for hard-working families, by the way, and so what you're seeing right now is I think Pelosi just exposing the fact she has no case and trying to have one more bite at the apple. They're going to talk about more impeachments next year. How about they focus on lowering drug prices, securing our border, doing an infrastructure package that they could have done in a bipartisan way? They don't want to do any of that because they become the party of impeachment. They have this obsession, it seems like, with carrying out this political vendetta that they have against the President instead of working with him to get things done. At least President Trump is working for families and creating jobs, getting an economy that's booming and higher wages in people's paychecks  that's what we should all be focused on.\" On Speaker Pelosi's partisan impeachment charade: \"Well, it's not [Speaker Pelosi's] role to go over to the Senate. She could run for the Senate if she wants to be a Senator, but the House has a role, the Senate has a role. It's time for the Senate to do their job. Look, for months she was saying how important it is they've got to remove this President immediately, he's a threat to their whole way of life. And then once they passed the impeachment, she doesn't want the Senate to get the papers to start the trial. They can't have it both ways. I think people see through this charade. It's a political charade. This is not what our Founders intended impeachment to be used for, in fact, they wrote about it. Hamilton talked very specifically about the concern that impeachment would be used to carry out a political vendetta instead of to go after a crime. There was no crime committed, and so now all they're doing is trying to just attack the President personally because their field is so weak on the Democrat side and the President's done such a great job at fulfilling his promises, the things he actually ran on doing. I wish Barack Obama and Joe Biden would have stood up to Russia and helped Ukraine as much as President Trump's helped Ukraine selling Javelin missiles, allowing them to stand up to Russia in ways that Barack Obama and Joe Biden wouldn't allow Ukraine to do.\" On Democrat hypocrisy on the need for a fair impeachment trial: \"Well, you've seen [Senator Murkowski] make statements concerned about what Democrats have been doing and saying as well. You know, you've heard Chuck Schumer making comments recently in the last two weeks that contradict things that Chuck Schumer as a candidate for United States Senate said in 1998 when he was running, saying he was running on a platform and part of acquitting Bill Clinton when he got to vote against impeachment in the House and it went over to the Senate and voted against impeachment there. So in the end, look, the Senate's going to conduct a fair trial. I have confidence in Mitch McConnell doing that. There was not a fair trial in the House, and I think that was very clear, and you see what Pelosi did there. Literally shutting down the ability for the minority to even have a day of hearings which is required under House rules. They broke that rule, they broke a lot of rules to ram through this impeachment charade just because they have a political vendetta against the President. He didn't commit a crime, their star witnesses said under oath when asked, 'Can you name an impeachable offense?' 'Was there any bribery?' Every one of them said 'no,' and yet they still carried on. The Senate will have a fair trial, and you'll see an acquittal. Everybody knows it's going to end in acquittal. What [Democrats] haven't done is what I think is just as important. They haven't focused on lowering prescription drug prices. Which we passed a bill, by the way, unanimously out of committee, every Republican every Democrat, voted to lower drug prices. Families would be paying those lower drug prices today because the President would have signed the bill. Pelosi won't bring that to the Floor because of this obsession with impeachment.\" On the unfair impeachment process conducted by Democrats in the House: \"Well look, you know, people can question strategy and everybody might have their own tactics of how they'd go about it. Every impeachment, when you had a Republican divided House and Senate with the White House, they've always negotiated with the White House to have a fair process. That I think is what's missing in this, there was never an attempt by the Speaker to have any kind of negotiation on a fair process with the White House. It was done with a Republican House and a Democrat President under Clinton. It was done with the Democrat House and a Republican President under Nixon, they negotiated fair terms and processes so that you could have a fair trial. They didn't have that in the House. It was very clear that Pelosi didn't want a fair process. But in the end, it's going to end in acquittal. And so, why don't we focus on real things that matter for hard-working families.\" On President Trump and House Republicans working hard on behalf of American families: \"I don't think there's tension, I think the President has been focused on delivering for families. We just, before we left, we're finally able to get the USMCA Trade Agreement passed. It should have been passed months ago. By the way Mike, that that was something that could create over 160,000 jobs for workers all across the country and better trade relations and sending a message to China, and Pelosi sat on that for over six months because of this obsession with impeachment. So the President said look, I want to work with Congress to get things done. They just spend all their time going after him personally because they don't like him and as he said, they don't like the people who voted for him, which i think is a bigger concern that they're missing. I think those people are going to speak out again in 2020 and reelect President Trump and send in a Republican House because they don't want the House spending all of its time carrying out political vendetta's. They should be working for those families that President Trump's working and delivering for.\" [...] \"You got to go back and just continue to talk about the things that we would do if [Republicans] were in the majority, actually delivering for those same families that expect Congress to be working for them, not fighting over their own personal power in Washington. And I think that's what you see this about is you know, [Democrats] still don't like the fact that in 2016 Donald Trump got elected. They're trying to reverse and negate the votes of those millions of people who elected Donald Trump as our President, and they're trying to hurt his ability next year. Many of them said it publicly, that they're afraid President Trump will get reelected so they have to impeach him, but that's not why you have impeachment. That, in fact, is an abuse of the power of impeachment. And I think [Democrats] are going to be punished for abusing that power next year when they go before the voters who elected him last year.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/dems-cant-face-reality", "Dems Can't Face Reality", "2019-12-20", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle last night and Fox News Channel's America's Newsroomthis morning to discuss the unprecedented actions taken in the House this week by Speaker Pelosi and her failing Democrat majority. Whip Scalise blasted Speaker Pelosi for abusing the power of impeachment to appease her radical base and carry out a vendetta against President Trump. Now, Speaker Pelosi is refusing to send the articles to the Senate because Democrats can't face the reality that their scheme won't hold up in the Senate.  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the Ingraham Angle interview.\n\tClick here or on the image above to watch the America's Newsroom interview.\nTranscribed remarks from Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle: On House Democrats' disdain for President Trump: It's just disdain that they have for really the 63 million Americans who elected Donald Trump President, all of those [hard-working] men and women who had been forgotten by Washington. It's the arrogance of these liberal elites who walked into Washington, not to make lives better, and lower drug prices, and fix problems  they had a political vendetta. They didn't agree with the results of the 2016 election and they were hell-bent on impeaching the President. Over 100, Laura, over 100 Democrats voted to impeach the President prior to the Zelensky phone call. It was never about a crime. There was no crime, which is why Pelosi is acting out right now. There is nothing to impeach him on. It was an impeachment in search of a crime. And now I think they're seeing the backlash. The country is revolting against what they just did. It's going to be a scar on Nancy Pelosi's legacy as Speaker. On the baseless allegations in Democrats' articles of impeachment: Laura, if you go through the three impeachments that we've had prior to this, whatever you want to call this, every one of them started with an actual crime. And you can debate whether it was a high crime or misdemeanor, but they were all a crime. There is no dispute about that. Here, there was never a crime. [Democrats] hoped there was a crime. The Mueller investigation was a 22-month witch hunt to try to find a crime. But go look at Pelosi's comments just a week ago, where she said they've been doing this for two and a half years. Again, I read on the House Floor last night some of the things that Democrats already voted to impeach President Trump on. Two years ago, they voted to impeach him for criticizing NFL players who kneeled for the [Pledge of Allegiance]. Is that really a high crime and misdemeanor? Or as [Professor Jonathan Turley], one of the witnesses who under oath testified he voted against President Trump, said the only abuse of power is what Democrats are doing, abusing their power because the President is exercising his legal rights. Maybe Adam Schiff read Article One and Two of the Constitution, but maybe his version didn't have Article Three, which is the Judicial Branch. He forgot about that one. They don't have a case. There was no crime. Transcribed remarks from Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom: On Speaker Pelosi's abuse of the power of impeachment: This is bizarre behavior by the Speaker to think that she can somehow tell the Senate how to run an impeachment trial after she literally broke House rules to deny the ability for the minority to even present our case, the alternative case, which House rules require. They literally ignored and broke that rule. But now it's in the hands of the Senate, and Mitch McConnell knows what he needs to do to actually run a fair trial, unlike what happened in the House. But think about this, every impeachment before this always started with one thing, and that was a criminal act. It started with a crime. This [impeachment], there was never a crime. This impeachment was an impeachment looking for a crime, and they never found it. They should have not done this. I think the court of public opinion has definitely turned against them because they abused the power of impeachment. In fact, one of the witnesses who under oath said he voted against Donald Trump testified and said that the only abuse of power is by the House abusing their power of impeachment because there was no case, there was no crime.\" ... until those papers are turned over to the Senate [impeachment] didn't happen. And so, you know whatever their reason was for starting this, clearly it was to appease their radical base, this looks more and more like it's been a political vendetta just because they don't agree with the results of the 2016 election. That's not why you have the power of impeachment. Our Founding Fathers put it there to be used very rarely, and for criminal acts. There is no criminal act. Just because you don't like a President  we have elections for that. Next year, we have an election, people will go to the polls. The American people will choose the President, not Nancy Pelosi and this bizarre behavior. ... ...I don't think anybody's arguing that she's outwitted anybody. I think people are looking, wondering what exactly is she doing, and I don't think she knows right now. I think she thought this was going to be something where the country sided with them. Frankly, it's backfired on them, because they never had a case. It looks very much like a political vendetta, because that's what it is  it's what it's been from the beginning. And so, you know where they go next, it really is going to be in the hands of the Senate anyway. But they've already lost in the court of public opinion, they've even lost one of their own colleagues. Jeff Van Drew switched to the Republican Party yesterday, in fact, because he couldn't stand being a part of what they've done to upend what the Constitution designed to be  a rare power that they've now abused. On Speaker Pelosi being out of touch with the priorities of American families: [Speaker Pelosi] has no leverage. Look, she's lost this battle. I don't think she understands how to let it go now, because she thought it was going to turn out differently and it didn't. It's literally worked against her. You look at what's happening in every swing state across the country, they're saying why didn't you spend your majority this last year lowering drug prices, working with the President to get an infrastructure bill?' She didn't do any of that, because she was so obsessed with impeachment to carry out a political agenda. On Jeff Van Drew joining the Republican Party: I welcome Jeff Van Drew to the Republican Party, and I did so yesterday in person. But look, there are a lot of other people like him that are coming our way. He was a blue dog. Pelosi doesn't allow any space in the Democrat Party for moderate swing voting Democrats. And so, she's got a long history, by the way, of Democrats who switch party to Republican, because she runs such a far-left socialist agenda. You can see the AOC's of the world have taken over the Democrat party in the House, but that's not where middle America is, and they're losing middle America because of that far-left socialist agenda that Pelosi rams through the House of Representatives.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-urges-nih-to-transfer-chimps-to-louisiana-sanctuary", "Cassidy Urges NIH to Transfer Chimps to Louisiana Sanctuary", "2019-12-20", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.20.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy Urges NIH to Transfer Chimps to Louisiana Sanctuary \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), andMartin Heinrich (D-N.M.)submitted a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, urgingthe agency transfer 43 chimpanzees from the Alamogordo Primate Facility on Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to the national sanctuary system at Chimp Havenin Keithville, Louisiana.\r\nThe letter follows theOctoberdecision by NIH announcing that theremainingchimpanzeesat the Alamogordo facility will not be transferred to sanctuary. The lawmakers view the decision asa violation of the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance, and Protection Act (CHIMP Act), mandating that chimpanzees live their remaining years in a chimpanzee sanctuary.\r\nIn addition to our general questions about the NIH's rationale for retaining these chimpanzees that are no longer needed for biomedical research (i.e. surplus), we are concerned that the NIH's decision may be contrary to Congress's intent in passing the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance, and Protection Act (CHIMP Act),the senators wrote.\r\nThe chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility are undoubtedly surplus, having lived at the facility for well over a decade without being subjected to any further research,the senators continued.Since at least 2015 NIH has acknowledged that these chimpanzees are no longer necessary for research, triggering the NIH's obligation to retire them. With 43 chimpanzees that are deemed surplus, the NIH now has a legal duty under the CHIMP Act to fulfill its commitment to relocate these chimpanzees to the national sanctuary system. There, these chimpanzees may live out the remainder of their lives under the supervision of caretakers with expertise in maximizing their psychological and physical wellbeingprecisely as Congress envisioned.\r\nThe senators then requested the NIH to provide answers to six questions regarding:\r\n \r\nThe facility's ability to meet the complex physical and psychological needs of the 43 chimpanzees remaining in its care\r\nThenumber of remaining staff caring for the animals and their job titles\r\nWhether or not the chimpanzees have daily access to material to build nests\r\nWhy the chimpanzees in Alamogordo are held in groups smaller than what was determined to be appropriate under a previous NIH Working Group\r\nA description of the NIH's obligation and plan to provide the best possible quality of life for these surviving chimpanzees.\r\nA description of any and all instances in which a chimpanzee has died or has been injured during transport.\r\n \r\nWe appreciate continuing to work with you on this matter and appreciate your responsiveness but want to make abundantly clear our displeasure with the NIH's decision to not send these chimpanzees to sanctuary,the senators concluded.We disagree on the NIH's interpretation of Congressional action and state unambiguously that these chimpanzees need to be transferredto Chimp Haven before the end of the year.\r\nThe full text of the senator's letter can be foundHEREand below:\r\nDear Director Collins:\r\nWe are writing today to express our concern regarding the National Institutes of Health(NIH)'s announcement, made public on October 24, 2019, that it will not send 44 chimpanzees (now down to 43 chimpanzees) held at the Alamogordo Primate Facility on Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to the national sanctuary system at Chimp Haven in Keithville, LA. In addition to our general questions about the NIH's rationale for retaining these chimpanzees that are no longer needed for biomedical research (i.e. surplus), we are concerned that the NIH's decision may be contrary to Congress's intent in passing the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance, and Protection Act (CHIMP Act).\r\nFollowing public outcry over the federal government's continued ownership of several hundred surplus chimpanzees, and in light of the National Research Council's 1997 report to the NIH about long-term care and support, Congress passed the CHIMP Act. The CHIMP Act was based on congressional testimony that found sanctuaries to be cheaper, healthier, and better . . . for the interest of the chimpanzees, since chimpanzee medical research facilities are not . . . a suitable environment for . . . long-term holding. As a result, Congress mandated that NIH provide permanent retirement in the national sanctuary system for chimpanzees owned by NIH.\r\nIn light of the extensive testimony and evidence in support of a sanctuary system for these chimpanzees, the Act afforded the NIHan agency that expressed concerns with this Act as it wound its way through Congress very little discretion over whether surplus chimpanzees would be allowed to go to retire to the sanctuary system. Indeed, in establishing this sanctuary system, Congress stripped the NIH of its discretion over these surplus chimpanzees, mandating that all surplus chimpanzees owned by the Federal government shall be accepted into the sanctuary system. In contrast, neither the CHIMP Act nor its implementing regulations provide NIH the discretion not to transfer a chimpanzee to sanctuary once the determination that it is a surplus chimpanzee has been made.\r\nCongress was well aware of issues related to the age and health of chimpanzees who are received into the sanctuary system. The Senate considered and rejected the NIH's current position that age or infirmity could be sufficient cause to deny these chimpanzees a transfer, finding that advanced age or infection would actually be a compelling reason to admit these chimpanzees. Further, the House was well aware that chimpanzees who were transferred to sanctuaries may not be in pristine health, observing that these sanctuaries would have some kind of facilities in there to deal with the health needs. That the NIH could now contradict the very reasons Congress found sanctuaries so compellingthat they are cheaper, healthier, and better alternatives for aging chimpanzeesis deeply concerning.\r\nThe chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility are undoubtedly surplus, having lived at the facility for well over a decade without being subjected to any further research. Since at least 2015 NIH has acknowledged that these chimpanzees are no longer necessary for research, triggering the NIH's obligation to retire them. With 43 chimpanzees that are deemed surplus, it appears the NIH now has a legal duty under the CHIMP Act to fulfill its commitment to relocate these chimpanzees to the national sanctuary system. There, these chimpanzees may live out the remainder of their lives under the supervision of caretakers with expertise in maximizing their psychological and physical wellbeingprecisely as Congress envisioned.\r\nThe advanced age and suffering from the inevitable maladies associated with the passage oftime that the NIH cites as reason not to transfer is actually why the chimpanzees should be transferred from Alamogordo Primate Facility to the national chimpanzee sanctuary. And this is true whether viewed from the requirements of the CHIMP Act or the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The CHIMP Act did require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards for the care (and, ultimately, transport) of these chimpanzees in accordance with the AWA. Yet the AWA does not require absolute certainty that the transport of primates poses no risk. To the contrary, the regulations make clear that a primate that is obviously ill, injured, or in physical distress, must not be transported, except to receive veterinary care for the condition. Put differently, the AWA regulations, like the CHIMP Act itself, provide that old and infirm primates may be transferred for the purpose of obtaining veterinary care.\r\nThat the risk of death comes from anesthesia during transport does not by itself justify NIH's effort to retain these chimpanzees, with regulations and a statute that are silent on that particular circumstance. This silence is likely due to the fact that the Act is almost twenty years old and Congress may not have foreseen the NIH's long overdue delay in transferring these chimpanzees. Whatever the reason, Congress was not silent on the most important fact: all surplus chimpanzees owned by the Federal government shall be accepted into the sanctuary system, and advanced age and illness are the exact reasons for this transfer, not a basis to subvert the goals of a sanctuary system.\r\nAside from the broad, overarching concerns about the NIH's rationale, we are also concerned and have questions about the staffing and space available to the chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility. Please provide a detailed answer as to the following questions:\r\n-How is this facility able to meet the complex physical and psychological needs of the 43 chimpanzees remaining in its care?\r\n-Please include the number of remaining staff at the Alamogordo Primate Facility and their job titles.\r\n-Do the chimpanzees have daily access to material to build nests?\r\n-Why are all of the chimpanzees in Alamogordo held in groups smaller than what was determined to be appropriate under a previous NIH Working Group?\r\n- Please also describe the NIH's obligation and plan to provide the best possible quality of life for these surviving chimpanzees.\r\n- Please list and describe any and all instances in which a chimpanzee has died or has been injured during transport.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate continuing to work with you on this matter and appreciate your responsiveness but want to make abundantly clear our displeasure with the NIH's decision to not send these chimpanzees to sanctuary. We disagree on the NIH's interpretation of the underlying laws and regulations and state unambiguously that these chimpanzees need to be transferred to Chimp Haven before the end of the year. It is unacceptable for the NIH to violate the CHIMP Act and allow all Alamogordo chimpanzees to convalesce in the research facility for the remainder of their lives.\r\nThank you for attention to this urgent matter, we look forward to your reply.\r\nSincerely,\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-asks-trump-administration-to-bring-home-citgo-6", "Sen. 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Democrats waited until USMCA could be used in a political manner to offset their one-sided, weaponized impeachment. Had we passed the USMCA months ago, we could have been looking at thousands of new jobs and billions in economic prosperity for the third and fourth quarter of 2019. Instead, that was denied to the American people. While I\u2019m glad USMCA has finally passed the House, I\u2019m disappointed it\u2019s under these circumstances.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-votes-support-usmca-trade-deal", "Higgins Votes in Support of USMCA Trade Deal", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting to pass the United States  Mexico  Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal that's projected to generate more than $68 billion in new economic activity and 176,000 additional jobs.\n \n\tUSMCA was an easy win for America, and yet it was delayed by Speaker Pelosi for more than a year. Democrats waited until USMCA could be used in a political manner to offset their one-sided, weaponized impeachment. Had we passed the USMCA months ago, we could have been looking at thousands of new jobs and billions in economic prosperity for the third and fourth quarter of 2019. Instead, that was denied to the American people. While I'm glad USMCA has finally passed the House, I'm disappointed it's under these circumstances.\n \nWatch Congressman Higgins discuss the benefits of USMCA here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-applauds-committee-s-passage-legislation-honoring-dr-co-simpkins", "JOHNSON APPLAUDS COMMITTEES PASSAGE OF LEGISLATION HONORING DR. C.O. SIMPKINS", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today applauded the House Oversight Committee's unanimous passage of his bipartisan legislation designating a United States Post Office in Mansfield, La., to Dr. C.O. Simpkins. Johnson's bill is cosponsored by the entire Louisiana House delegation.\nThough it feels like a small gesture in comparison to all theprofound contributionsDr. Simpkins made to both our state and our nation, we aredelighted to be one step closer tomaking this tribute a reality,said Johnson.Kelly and I are continuing to keep the Simpkins familyin our prayers as they walk through a difficult holiday season.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-praises-passage-usmca", "JOHNSON PRAISES PASSAGE OF USMCA", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today released the following statement after voting in favor of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA):\nPresident Trump and House Republicans promised a trade deal that finally puts America first. Today, we delivered.\nWhile I'm disappointed Democrats needlessly held it up for more than a year, I'm proud to have helped get the USMCA across the finish line so it can finally bring more jobs, higher wages and greater opportunities to hardworking Louisianians.\nThis updated trade agreement will add over $68 billion to our economy, create 176,000 jobs and increase the amount of made-in-America' products across the continent. It's a shame Speaker Pelosi held such common-sense legislation hostage while House Democrats devoted all of their time to a fraudulent and evidence-free impeachment.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/historic-win-our-country-and-our-economy", "A Historic Win for Our Country and Our Economy", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke on the House Floor earlier today to celebrate the historic United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement vote. When the forgotten men and women of America told Washington that NAFTA wasn't working for them, President Trump listened.Critics said he couldn't get USMCA done. But with buy-in from our neighbors to the north and south, hard work from the USMCA Whip Team, and the steady hands of Republican leader Kevin Brady and U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer, President Trump did it. Today, Congress delivered President Trump's top legislative priority on a strong bipartisan vote.\n  \nClickhereor on the image above to watch his full remarks.\nFull remarks:\n\"Thank you, Madam Speaker.\n\"I thank Chairman Brady for yielding and I want to thank all the people that we've worked with to get to this point, because passing the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement is going to be a major victory for American workers. Yet another sign that we can improve on our current trade relationships. \"I think a lot of people were concerned that maybe the President would pull out of NAFTA because he was clearly critical of the flaws of the previous agreement. But what he did was actually go and negotiate with Mexico and get a better deal for American workers. Then he went to Canada, who might have been a little more reluctant, but got a better deal with Canada as well. \"And so what you see is not only a trade agreement that is a major win for the American economy  conservative estimates show over 160,000 new jobs get created, agriculture gets a big win because many of our products that we can't sell to Canada will be able to now be sent to those markets. \"So this shows how Congress can work with this administration to do something that's really good for American workers. But what it also does Madam Speaker is it sends a message to the rest of the world that we can work with our friends to get better trade deals. Our other friends around the world like Japan, like the United Kingdom, who would like to work to get better trade deals but knew if you can't get a deal with your neighbors from the north and south, you're surely not going to be able to get a deal with anyone else. \"Now this tells them that we can close deals and that there are other countries lining up that want to be a part of this economy. We have the hottest economy in the world and it's only going to get better for workers here. But it then sends a message to China that not just America wants to send, but a message that all of our allies around the world want to send: that when you do business with America, you have to follow the rules. You can't play by your own set of rules. \"And so now for enforcement of deals, it really shows that China is going to have to become part of the world economy and play by the rules that everyone else in the world plays by. And that's an important win for all of those forgotten men and women across this country, who appreciate the work President Trump's done, Bob Lighthizer, who's been his quarterback on this all the way through, and everyone else. \"So it's going to be a big win for our country, for our economy. And with that I yield back the balance of my time.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/robust-support-usmca-what-theyre-saying", "Robust Supportfor USMCA: What They're Saying", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.As the House prepares to consider the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), support for President Trump's hard-negotiated trade deal has been strong among a wide range of conservative voices, as well as business and industry groups. Passing the USMCA trade deal will be a major boost for our economy, and will provide more than 160,000 new jobs, which is a huge win for American workers. Once USMCA is ratified, the United States can continue working to get better trade deals with other countries around the world who have already recognized that their economies will also benefit if they treat America more fairly in our outdated trade deals. House Republicans stand ready to push this important trade agreement over the finish line. Take a look at what they're saying The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement represents a significant step forward in terms of transparency, regulatory fairness and ensuring open access to the markets of all three countries. The agreement includes new provisions that apply to medical devices that will foster greater patient access to the latest medical technology innovations and further regulatory harmonization.Advamed USMCA provides the stability and predictability that we need for our companies to invest in the region as we grow our footprint.American Apparel & Footwear Association\n\twe believe that USMCA makes a number of improvements to NAFTA: Makes intellectual property protection uniform in North America, updates rules of origin for certain sectors, modernizes customs procedures that will facilitate trade, increases the de minimis for Canada and Mexico which will benefit small and medium size businesses selling to consumers in those markets.American Association of Exporters and Importers\n\tThe United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is a critical step towards strengthening our workforce, country and neighbors. The beverage industry employs more than 264,000 hard-working Americans, contributes $189 billion in direct economic impact and provides $20.8 billion in wages and benefits. On behalf of America's leading beverage companies, we applaud the Administration and Congressional leaders for their commitment to creating a more prosperous outlook for our industry and the communities we serve  and we urge Congress to swiftly consider and pass this trade agreement.American Beverage Association The USMCA contains several positive elements for the life insurance industry. ACLI is particularly pleased that USMCA modernizes NAFTA by including actionable commitments against data localization, providing certainty for American insurance and reinsurance providers in both Mexico and Canada.American Council of Life Insurers\n\tThe U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) today, [is] an important step in preserving free trade across North America. The seamless movement of goods between our nations  via private railroads, as well as trucks  makes our economies stronger and more competitive.Association of American Railroads\n\tThe USMCA would bring significant added value to our industry, to the economy, and to continued efforts to protect human health and the environment throughout the region. It's time to put this agreement to work for all Americans.American Chemistry Council\n\tWe urge members of Congress to swiftly approve the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.  This is an opportunity for Congress not only to help U.S. farmers and ranchers turn the corner on trade, but also show that Washington can still get things done on a bipartisan basis.American Farm Bureau Federation\n\tUSMCA ratification will also benefit American farmers, as the deal is projected to increase agriculture exports by more than $314 million. Through USMCA negotiations, Canada agreed to open market access to American farmers who wish to sell dairy, poultry, and eggs in Canada. In return, Canada will have access to American dairy and peanut productsthe USMCA is a good trade deal that will benefit American workers, businesses, and innovators. Now that an agreement has finally been reached, Congress should ratify USMCA.Americans for Tax Reform\n\tIn key areas, USMCA will bring the rules that govern trade between our three markets into line with the new reality of how insurance trade is conducted today.\"American Insurance Association  The new agreement builds on this success by establishing new rules of origin that will further incentivize the use of North American steel in the manufacturing of automobiles and other steel-intensive goods in North America. The agreement also improves on the original NAFTA by creating new rules to address currency manipulation and state-owned enterprises, and by promoting increased cooperation and information sharing between the three North American governments to address circumvention and evasion of our trade and customs laws. We believe these enhancements provide valuable improvements to the text of the original NAFTA that will help keep our manufacturing supply chains strong throughout North America.American Iron and Steel Institute Having Canada as a trading partner and a party to this agreement is critical for North American energy security and U.S. consumers. Retaining a trade agreement for North America will help ensure the U.S. energy revolution continues into the future.American Petroleum Institute Once approved by Congress, a finalized U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement will bring stability back to the North American markets. Under NAFTA, U.S. soy exports to Canada and Mexico were almost $3 billion in 2017, and U.S. soy exports to Mexico have grown four-fold under the agreement.American Soybean Association Signing this improved trade agreement will strengthen America's relationships with our nearest neighbors and put us all in a position to grow the North American economy. That economic growth will be a boon to the American trucking industry  which already moves 82% of the freight that crosses the Mexican border and 68% that crosses our border with Canada  as well as to consumers in all three countries.American Trucking Association Council of the Americas (COA) welcomes the announcement by the governments of Canada,Mexico, and the United States that they have reached an agreement for a new trilateral pact that will replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.Council of the Americas\n\tModernizing and maintaining important trade benefits in North America will help sustain and enhance Canadian and Mexican market access for America's farmers, ranchers and food manufacturers. It also supports job creation and America's rural economies, and benefits producers and consumers in all three countries.\"Archer Daniels Midland Company  This is a good day for North America. The signing of the USMCA by each country preserves and modernizes the trilateral trade relationship that has made North America the globe's most competitive region for the last nearly quarter century.Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry\n\tThe USMCA promises to spur even greater integration among the North American economies and strengthen the region's stature as a formidable global manufacturing base. Improving the manufacturing competitiveness of North America will unlock more growth, innovation and job creation, benefiting people across the continent and the world.Association Connecting Electronics Industries\n\tA North American trade agreement is key in maintaining economic growth in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. AHAM looks forward to working with the administration and others to secure ratification of the USMCA in Congress and in Canada.Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers\n\tAT&T applauds the White House, the United States Trade Representative, Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Neal for their tremendous work and dedication to reach a bipartisan agreement on USMCA. This effort to modernize digital trade rules has far reaching implications for investment, innovation and future jobs for American workers. We look forward to the prompt introduction of legislation to finalize this critical trade deal.AT&T\n\tStrong digital trade provisions in North America will not only drive future software innovation across the region, but should also serve as a model for the inclusion of strong digital trade provisions in future trade agreements, including with the United Kingdom, Japan, and the World Trade Organization.BSA | The Software Alliance\n\tUSMCA includes many gold-standard provisions, further opens markets and sets new standards that can benefit workers, businesses and farmers across broad industry sectors  including new rules supporting the digital economy and trade, promoting the free flow of data for all sectors, enhancing trade facilitation and e-commerce and supporting small businesses by cutting red tape. Building off the current foundation of duty-free trilateral trade and integrated supply chains across North America, USMCA, once in effect, will increase U.S. jobs, exports and economic growth.Business Roundtable\n\tThe provisions of the NAFTA with Canada and Mexico have been beneficial for U.S. industries, agricultural enterprises, farmers, ranchers, energy companies and automakers.California Chamber of Commerce\n\tFor nearly 25 years, the economic integration of the United States, Mexico and Canada has helped to ensure the prosperity of farmers and businesses in all three nations. We look forward to working with Congress to pass the USMCA, and thereby take a major step toward bringing back the confidence of trade flows between these critical trading partners.Cargill\n\tArizona businesses and workers rely on free trade agreements!Chandler, Arizona Chamber of Commerce\n\tUSMCA includes several provisions that are important to the financial services industry, including protections for the free flow of data, providing greater certainty as we transition to a digital economy. The Agreement also provides important intellectual property and fair competition protections that will encourage investment and job creation across North America.Chubb\n\tWe are encouraged by the modernized financial services chapter and commend the U.S. negotiators for securing strong language that will prohibit data localization in the region.CITI\n\tMexico and Canada are the two largest export markets for refined corn products, averaging over $900 million in shipments per year. CRA is pleased that the USMCA maintains the zero tariffs that were originally achieved for corn wet milled products under NAFTA, as well as the expansion and improvements to critical text concerning sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, good regulatory practices, customs procedures, and cooperation on biotechnology.Corn Refiners Association When fully implemented, the milestone USMCA will modernize NAFTA to reflect the massive changes in the global services landscape over the last quarter century. Specifically, the cross-border services, financial services, telecommunications, and digital trade chapters will benefit the entire spectrum of U.S. services suppliers and the sectors they support such as manufacturing and agriculture.Coalition of Services Industries The USMCA sets a high standard for future free trade agreements and will positively impact the growth of American startups.Engine\n\tBringing this trilateral agreement into the 21st century is a significant achievement that could, if implemented to maximize the benefits it envisions, accelerate the flow of goods through supply chains and create a more competitive business environment across the continent.Express Association of America\n\tThis is welcome news and a relief for American farmers. Now it's time to get the bill passed before politics can get in the way. Farmers and ranchers will be watching closely to ensure that their members of Congress are standing up for American agriculture.Farmers for Free Trade The new USMCA is good for Ford jobs, our dealerships, our suppliers and the families and communities that depend on us. It allows the U.S. auto industry to be globally competitive, encourages U.S. research and development in this new era of mobility, and provides a framework to support good paying jobs in the U.S.Ford\n\tGeneral Motors is pleased to see the USMCA agreement moving forward on a path toward approval. We view the agreement as vital to the success of the North American auto industry and have long supported efforts to modernize it in a way that strengthens the industry and positions it to be a global leader.General Motors\n\tThe cold chain industry plays a critical role in the trade of perishable commodities in North America and globally. With members in all three USMCA countries, the Global Cold Chain Alliance strongly supports the swift ratification of the agreement to promote increased trade in the region.Global Cold Chain Alliance\n\t#USMCA's state-of-the-art rules on digital trade will position North America to forge new opportunities from technology -- benefiting small and large businesses, workers, consumers, and creators.Google These critical updates help to modernize the rules of the game governing the trade relationship with Arizona's most important trading partners in the world. The USMCA will help Arizona further capitalize on these assets  attracting more businesses and bringing more jobs here  by providing a sound framework for companies to invest.Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has been welcomed into rural America with open arms.\"Governor of Missouri, Michael L. Parson The USMCA provides stronger Rules of Origin, new provisions to protect intellectual property and trade in services, and new chapters focusing on digital trade and anticorruption. These important updates modernize rules governing our trade relationship with our most important trade partners.Greater Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce\n\tConclusion of the USMCA negotiations will allow American manufacturers and investors to move forward with increased confidence in a positive business climate. Freer and more open trade puts American families, businesses, workers, and farmers first by reducing prices on goods, increasing exports to our neighbors and the world, and creating more and higher paying jobs as a result of increased economic activity.Heritage Foundation\n\tThis landmark agreement takes important steps to modernize the trade rules for the region, including enabling the digital economy.Honeywell We acknowledge and applaud the trilateral effort between the American, Canadian and Mexican governments in developing a modernized trade agreement that will facilitate open markets, streamline exports and lower trade barriers within our integrated economies.Household & Commercial Products Association USMCA will prevent the establishment of new trade barriers in cyberspace, and will protect intellectual property that is vital to an innovative data economy.IBM The USMCA represents a victory for the entire American economy. Strong provisions in the agreement allow for the free flow of information across borders, prohibit forced data localization, and establish robust intermediary liability protections that ensure internet services can both host and moderate content on their platforms.Internet Association\n\tThe USMCA promotes the seamless flow of data across borders. This is essential to the vibrancy of the international economy and ensures American businesses and entrepreneurs can easily access data and provide services to partners in Canada and Mexico.Information Technology Industry Council\n\tIADC is pleased to see the advancement of a new trade agreement with all three countries at the table. A trade agreement that promotes the swift movement of equipment and personnel across the borders in North America is important to IADC's membership.International Association of Drilling Contractors\n\tWith a smooth path ahead for the USMCA agreement, America's dairy industry anticipates a bright future and continued growth through exports to Canada and Mexico. Once ratified, the new USMCA deal also delivers peace of mind for our businesses, removing the handcuffs of uncertainty that have constrained business decisions over the past two years as the deal was negotiated.International Dairy Foods Association\n\tFrom supply chain management to planned expansions, stability and an even international playing field by virtue of the USMCA will help American franchise businesses thrive.International Franchise Association \"The USMCA updates NAFTA for the internet and smartphone age. The agreement would massively benefit American small businesses, while also making environmental and labor union reforms. It is truly bipartisan.\"Job Creators Network\n\t\"USMCA enjoys bipartisan support among U.S. mayors, and we hope similar support exists in both chambers of Congress. We therefore urge you to schedule a vote on the USMCA implementing bill as soon as possible.\"Letter from 28 U.S. Mayors Louisiana businesses export more than $12 billion to Canada and Mexico every year. The passage of USMCA is critical to a range of industries  manufacturing and agriculture in particular  opening access to markets and increasing commerce for employers, workers, farmers, and fishers through a fair, enforceable, modern agreement. LABI urges Congress to swiftly approve USMCA.Louisiana Association of Business and Industry It sets a new standard for how trade agreements can foster growth, innovation, and economic inclusion in the digital age.Microsoft Strong intellectual property protections and increased market access are imperative to America's creative community.Motion Picture Association of America NAHB commends President Trump and House Democrats for working together in a bipartisan spirit to reach an agreement on approving the USMCA trade deal, which represents a win for the U.S. economy, a win for American jobs and a win for housing affordability. Many of the products that go into American homes come from Mexico or Canada. By moving swiftly to ratify the USMCA, Congress will help to address the nation's housing affordability crisis.National Association of Home Builders\n\tThe signing of the USMCA is a landmark milestone for American manufacturing workers. Manufacturers called for a trilateral agreement, and this moves us one step closer to restoring certainty to the North American market, the biggest market for U.S. exports in the world.National Association of Manufacturers the USMCA is estimated to stimulate up to 1 billion square feet in additional logistics warehouses in the first 5 years of its passage. The agreement also modernizes customs procedures, facilitating foreign buyers' purchase of property by making it easier for Canadians, Mexicans, and Americans to enter and leave our respective nations[for] the numerous positive impacts they have on our members, clients, and consumers across the continent, NAR, CREA, and AMPI support and urge swift ratification of the USMCA by the House.National Association of Realtors\n\tUSMCA captures the original intentions of NAFTA while improving some of the provisions for wheat growers. A yes vote for USMCA means more jobs for Americans, stronger export markets for farmers to sell their crop, and billions of dollars added to the economy.National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG)\n\tOn behalf of America's chicken producers, I want to thank President Trump for his leadership and for the tireless work of the administration, including Agriculture Secretary Perdue and U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer. After a year of negotiations, the time to act is now. We encourage swift Congressional consideration and passage of USMCA before Christmas.National Chicken Council\n\tThe NCC is pleased to see the addition of a textile and apparel chapter to the USMCA and inclusion of provisions to: promote greater use of U.S. origin textile products, incentivize North American textile production, and strengthen customs enforcement in textile and apparel products.\"National Cotton Council of America We are happy to hear a deal has been reached that should help pave the way for USMCA to move forward and we will continue to work for Congressional passage on a clean bill.National Council of Textiles\n\tThe agreement, entitled the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), contains a series of commitments of material importance to U.S. electroindustry manufacturers, including in the areas of market access, standards and conformity assessment, and regulatory cooperation.National Electrical Manufacturers Association The NGFA and NAEGA are pleased USMCA maintains and expands current agricultural market access and preserves the dispute-settlement process for antidumping and countervailing duty cases, while modernizing the agreement to address the challenges of 21st century global trade.\"National Grain and Feed Association The USMCA will benefit America's dairy sector by maintaining the overall U.S.-Mexico trading structure of the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), while incorporating new commitments to strengthen U.S. dairy export prospects throughout the North American region.National Milk Producers Federation We thank the administration for its diligent work to complete recent agreements that maintain zero-tariff access to three of U.S. pork's top five markets.National Pork Producers Council\n\t\"Restaurants across our nation rely on global supply chains and international trade to provide meals to millions of customers daily. USMCA will strengthen critical trade ties with our closest trading partners and ensure supply chain stability and manageable food costs for restaurants and consumers.\"National Restaurant Association\n\tThis new pact takes many important steps toward giving us a modern trade agreement with our two neighboring countries and continues the trilateral framework that protects North American supply chains, supports millions of U.S. jobs and helps retailers provide American families with the products they need at prices they can afford.National Retail Federation\n\tThe USMCA is a win for the U.S. turkey industry, and with today's announced agreement we're one step closer to ratification. It's taken a great deal of hard work to reach consensus on the USMCA, and we thank President Trump, Ambassador Lighthizer, Secretary Perdue, Speaker Pelosi and congressional leaders in both parties who have gotten us to this point.National Turkey Federation\n\tWhen it comes to our digital economy, USMCA puts America first.Netchoice The Pacific Northwest ships more than $500 million of apples, pears and cherries to customers in Mexico and Canada every year. USMCA is a win for our growers and the Northwest Horticultural Council supports Congress working through its legislative process so that USMCA can be implemented as rapidly as possible.Northwest Horticultural Council\n\tUSMCA will provide the industry with further opportunities to grow regionally and contribute to its competitiveness around the world.Personal Care Products Council\n\t\"modernized trade agreement that sets the stage for greater certainty throughout the continentcertainty that will support continued business growth and innovation for the plastics industries of each party to the agreement.Plastics Industry Association  \"As a leading exporter of agricultural, petrochemical, and energy products to Mexico and Canada, the Greater New Orleans region and all of Louisiana will benefit significantly from passage of USMCA, said Michael Hecht, President and CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc. This new agreement will result in greater economic and job growth for foundational Louisiana sectors, and we look forward to capitalizing on the new opportunities this agreement will provide.\"President and CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc., Michael Hecht We believe this agreement will help to solidify trilateral agreements between Canada and Mexico, which are the top two export destinations for the U.S. chemical industry. It also, gives us some certainty with respect to future tariffs and allows for better planning future growth in our industry.President and CEO of the Louisiana Chemical Association, Greg Bowser We applaud Congress for passage of USMCA, said Brandy Christian, President and CEO of the Port of New Orleans. The Port of New Orleans, like other commercial enterprises, needs and depends upon a strong U.S. economy. Free and fair trade policies are the best way to promote growth in the U.S. and in our partnering countries. We continue to be strong advocates of all trade agreements, which reflect market realities and economic growth potentials for all involved - moreover creating certainty for those involved in trade worldwide. We look forward to the USMCA facilitating increased trade with both Canada and MexicoPresident and CEO of the Port of New Orleans, Brandy Christian Farmers and ranchers in Louisiana, and across the country, need USMCA to bring some consistency in trade following years of market uncertainty. Mexico and Canada are our cornerstone trading partners in agriculture. Without the work of our elected leaders in Louisiana and President Trump's administration, these important trade relationships would be at risk of degrading. We look forward to the benefits this modernized partnership will bring Louisiana and our agricultural community. We appreciate the hard work of our delegation, especially that of Congressman Scalise as Minority Whip, for rallying support for this vital trade agreement.\"President of Louisiana's Farm Bureau Federation, Ronnie Anderson It is important to note the inclusion of a Small Business Chapter present in this agreement. This pioneering concept is a first in this or any other trade deal. Small businesses are the backbone of our economies.San Antonio Chamber of Commerce\n\tThe USMCA will promote free trade, reaffirm America's global technology and trade leadership, and ensure that more products made in America  including tech products like semiconductors can be shipped to customers around the world.Semiconductor Industry Association  The USMCA will create stability and growth for cross-border commerce with Canada and Mexico, and various provisions of the agreement are particularly helpful for small businesses. As we have noted previously, maintaining this trilateral deal is critical for entrepreneurs and small business, as navigating one set of rules is more efficient and less cumbersome than dealing with two.Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council\n\tThe signing of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement is a major step forward in creating an open trading system in data. We are pleased with the agreement's cross-border data flow obligations, protections for source code/algorithms, and recognition that the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules system is a valid facilitator of cross-border data flows, including financial data, while protecting personal information.Software & Information Industry Association \"We are pleased to note that USMCA builds on the successes of NAFTA and modernizes several provisions that will bring it in line with subsequent agreements like DR-CAFTA. USMCA creates incentives that will lead to increased investment, employment, and export opportunities for U.S. textile manufacturers.\"Textile and Cotton Manufacturers \"If passed, the USMCA will encourage more materials in the automotive industry to be manufactured within the United States through new rules of origin. And within Michigan's agriculture sector, the agreement secures fairer market access for farmers who take pride and rely on their Independent work styles.\"The Association of Independent Workers\n\tThis agreement is a critical step toward protecting auto-related jobs, including those of the 137,000 Americans who make their living working for Toyota.Toyota\n\tThe new USMCA will help to take time, cost and complexity out of trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Specifically, the agreement will significantly improve customs regulations, spur the growth of e-commerce through new digital trade rules and support the participation of more small businesses in regional and global supply chains.UPS The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) modernizes the previous trade agreement and will allow Black-owned businesses to be more competitive across borders. USMCA delivers on principles laid out in the USBC's 2018 BLACKprint, including expanded opportunities for Black-owned businesses and the protection of intellectual property abroad.U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.\n\tThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce has thrown its support behind the USMCA, which is critical to maintaining strong economic growth in the U.S.\"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Modernized provisions including those on digital trade and customs are key to allowing U.S. companies to continue to thrive in the North American market.U.S. Council for International Business\n\t\"Lower tariffs mean greater exports for American manufacturers, farmers and the travel industry. Stronger trade with key trading partners in Canada and Mexico will generate faster US economic growth and job creation. The good that the USMCA will do ought to transcend politics. Congress should pass it as soon as possible.\"U.S. Travel Association\n\tAmerica sent Mexico $1.4 billion in dairy goods last year, making it our biggest export destination. USMCA locks in this market, increases access to Canada, and makes important reforms to Canada's dairy system. We thank the lawmakers who support USMCA and urge Congress to quickly pass the trade deal.U.S. Dairy Export Council\n\tMore than 330,000 jobs in Washington state are tied to trade with Canada and Mexico, and we believe this new agreement will expand opportunities for Washington companies and workers.Washington Council on International Trade", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-calls-on-fiscal-conservatives-to-reject-domestic-spending-bill", "Cassidy Calls on Fiscal Conservatives to Reject Domestic Spending Bill", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.19.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy Calls on Fiscal Conservatives to Reject Domestic Spending Bill \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) wrote a letter to his Senate colleagues today urging them to vote against the domestic spending bill that will add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national deficit.\r\nThe domestic spending bill repeals Obamacare taxes that health insurance companies agreed to pay, sticking American families with all of the problems of Obamacare without any mechanism to pay for them.\r\nNow we will have Obamacare without the revenue to pay for it. What is worse is that we gave up these taxes without any reforms to help curb the growth of health expenditures. This is a gift to everyone who wants higher insurance premiums and more spending on health care, wrote Dr. Cassidy. There are reforms that we could institute that would allow us to repeal these taxes but nonetheless still control health care costs.\r\nTo read the letter, click here.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-cosponsors-violence-against-women-reauthorization-act-of-2019", "Sen. Kennedy Cosponsors Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-secures-wins-for-louisiana-in-funding-deal", "Sen. Kennedy Secures Wins for Louisiana in Funding Deal", "2019-12-19", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/18/higgins-votes-against-both-articles-impeachment/", "Higgins Votes Against Both Articles of Impeachment", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cNeither article I nor II meet the Constitutional standard for impeachment. They\u2019ve delineated no high crimes nor misdemeanors, no bribery nor treason. The articles narrate no elements of any crime. They stand upon opinion and conjecture, they confirm only disdain for President Trump and those who voted for him. However, Democrats have moved forward, absent of evidence and with hate in their hearts, to impeach President Trump. The American people will see this for what it is\u2026an attempt by one party to weaponize impeachment and overturn an election. It is House Democrats who have abused their power. For that, we will not soon forget. While this partisan impeachment will be soundly defeated in the Senate, only history will tell what lasting damage has been wrought upon our Republic by this attack from within.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-votes-against-both-articles-impeachment", "Higgins Votes Against Both Articles of Impeachment", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against both articles of impeachment.\n \n\tNeither article I nor II meet the Constitutional standard for impeachment. They've delineated no high crimes nor misdemeanors, no bribery nor treason. The articles narrate no elements of any crime. They stand upon opinion and conjecture, they confirm only disdain for President Trump and those who voted for him. However, Democrats have moved forward, absent of evidence and with hate in their hearts, to impeach President Trump. The American people will see this for what it is...an attempt by one party to weaponize impeachment and overturn an election. It is House Democrats who have abused their power.For that, we will not soon forget. While this partisan impeachment will be soundly defeated in the Senate, only history will tell what lasting damage has been wrought upon our Republic by this attack from within.\n \n\nWatch Congressman Higgins speak on the House Floor here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-marshall-statement-federal-appeals-court-decision-constitutionality-aca", "JOHNSON, MARSHALL STATEMENT ON FEDERAL APPEALS COURT DECISION ON CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ACA", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Johnson (LA-04) and RSC Health Care Task Force Chairman Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS-01) today released the following joint statement in response to a federal appeals court rulingthat the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate provision is unconstitutional while remanding the larger question on the overall constitutionality of the ACA back to federal district court:\n\nThe verdict on the ACA was in long before today's decision. It has failed to deliver affordability, choice, or access to quality care  all things vitally important to people with pre-existing conditions.The Republican Study Committee has a better plan  one that will protect people with pre-existing conditions, empower patients & families, and personalize the American health care system.\n\nBackground:\n\nOn October 22, 2019, the RSC releasedThe RSC Health Care Plan: A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care(click hereto download full report). Spearheaded by Johnson, Marshall, and members of the RSC Health Care Task Force, the RSC Health Care Plan would protect vulnerable Americans including those with pre-existing conditions, chronic illness, and serious health issues  while reducing premiums, deductibles, and overallhealth care costs.The product of a year of research and stakeholder discussions, the RSC's approach to achieve more personalized, affordable care isdesigned to empower patients and doctors rather than bureaucrats and insurance companies.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-votes-no-impeachment-0", "JOHNSON VOTES NO ON IMPEACHMENT", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) released the following statement after voting against the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump:\nThis is the first time in the history of this country that an impeachment has been pursued without a specific crime being alleged or proven. Even after 14 hours of debate in the House Judiciary Committee, no one could produce a scintilla of credible evidence. The real abuse of power here is on the part of the House Democrats, as they have recklessly pursued this impeachment  20 times faster than the impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton  to reach their predetermined political outcome.  The founders of this country warned against a single party impeachment because they feared it would bitterly, and perhaps irreparably, divide our nation. This impeachment will fail, but the Pandora's Box House Democrats have opened today will do irreparable damage to our country in the years ahead.\nEarlier today, Johnson delivered a speech on the House floor unraveling House Democrats' politically-motivated, evidence-free impeachment. To watch Johnson's full remarks, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/video-johnson-delivers-speech-ahead-impeachment-vote", "VIDEO: JOHNSON DELIVERS SPEECH AHEAD OF IMPEACHMENT VOTE", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON Ahead of today's impeachment vote, U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today delivered a speech on the House floor unraveling House Democrats' politically-motivated, evidence-free impeachment:\nThe founders of this country warned us against a single-party impeachment because they feared it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation.\nThe truth is, in the 243 years of this republic, there has never been a single-party, fraudulent impeachment process like the one being used today. Our Democratic colleagues have weaponized the impeachment provision of the Constitution to nullify the votes of 63 million Americans who elected President Donald J. Trump.\n...Not only is this a single-party impeachment, it's also evidence-free. [House Democrats] are trying to meet their own arbitrary, completely reckless and Machiavellian timeline to take down a president that they loathe.\nThe real abuse of power here is on the part of House Democrats. They have feverishly pursued this impeachment 20 times faster than the impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton. They've tried to reach their predetermined political outcome, and, along the way, they've steamrolled over Constitutionally guaranteed due process, previously sacrosanct House rules and the federal rules of civil procedure. This must fail, and this is a shameful day for the country.\nTo watch Johnson's full remarks, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/historic-scam", "A Historic Scam", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joinedFox News Channel's Hannity last night and Fox Business Channel's Mornings with Maria this morning to discuss House Democrats' partisan impeachment scam that will be a stain on Speaker Pelosi's legacy. Whip Scalise blasted Democrats for trying to settle a political score with an impeachment inquiry that has always been in search of a crime.Make no mistake, instead of working on behalf of American families, impeaching President Trump has been House Democrats' plan from day one. Whip Scalise emphasized how this historic scam will have severe consequences on Speaker Pelosi and her failing Democrat majority in the House.  \n\nClick here or on the image above to watch the Hannity interview.\n  Click here or on the image above to watch the Mornings with Maria interview.\n  Transcribed remarks from Fox News Channel's Hannity: On the stain that impeachment will have on Speaker Pelosi's legacy: \"The consequences are that this is going to be a stain on Nancy Pelosi's legacy. The fact that this was an impeachment in search of a crime, and they never found a crime, Sean. And instead of moving on, their most radical base want an impeachment regardless of whether or not the President did anything wrong. And so, they went after it anyway instead of doing the things that they could have been doing to work with this President to lower drug prices, to address so many other problems in our country. And so, I think that's going to be something they're going to have to live with. It would be the first time in history Sean, by the way, that an impeachment of a president happened on a party-line vote. The only bipartisan vote will be against impeachment, and again, that's going to be a stain on Pelosi's legacy as Speaker.\" Transcribed remarks from Fox Business Channel's Mornings with Maria: On House Democrats trying to settle a political score through impeachment: \"It is disgraceful. I read the President's letter and he documents so many of the things that are wrong about what Speaker Pelosi is doing. Every other impeachment  there's only been three of them  all started with a crime, a specific crime. Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton all had a crime. There's been no crime. It's been an impeachment in search of a crime, but they thought the Mueller investigation was going to be it, it didn't produce anything. But they kept going because it's a personal vendetta against the President. It has nothing to do with anything he did wrong, they just don't like the fact that he got elected in 2016. And more than that, Maria, they're scared to death he will get reelected because he's following through on his promises. But that's not why you impeach a President.\" [] \"The drum beat from the day he got elected, before he was sworn in to office, you had Democrats who are voting today on impeachment say they were going to impeach the President. Not because he did anything wrong, he wasn't even President, just because they didn't like him personally. I've documented over 100 Democrats [who] already voted to impeach President Trump for various things prior to the phone call with President Zelensky. So it's not about the phone call, it's never been about quid pro quo or anything because all of their own witnesses testified the President didn't do anything wrong. They were asked under oath, 'Can you name a law that he's broken,' 'Can you name any bribery?' Not a single thing. And so, it was never about something he did wrong, it was the fact that they just wanted to appease their most radical left base and they're doing it today. But look, over 50 Democrats voted to impeach him because he criticized NFL players for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance  voting to impeach the President for that  they voted on record, Maria, over a year ago for that.\" On the bipartisan support AGAINST the impeachment of President Trump: \"I think there will be Democrats who vote today against impeachment. So, it will be only the first time  the first time in the history of our country  where impeachment was a partisan vote, where it went on party lines and, in fact, the only [bipartisan] vote will be against impeachment today.\" [] \"There are [Democrats] who have expressed strong concerns with what Speaker Pelosi is doing. But, look, they're scared to death. They've threatened all of them in their primaries. Literally, AOC, Pelosi, threatened that if somebody votes against impeachment, they'll run a Democrat against them in their primary. And, you know, look, they're going to have to go back home and explain this. This is going to be, I think, a stain on Nancy Pelosi's legacy as Speaker, because of the way they've done it in such a partisan way, literally breaking the rules of the House. The rules of the House require a minority day of hearing so that you can present the other side. They didn't even allow that. They voted it down in committee. When the committee doesn't have that jurisdiction, it's a House rule, they broke that because they just want to ram this through.\" On how Democrats' obsession with impeachment has interfered with working on real solutions for American families: \"We would have lower drug prices today, [but Speaker Pelosi is focused on] impeachment. As you know, we've talked about USMCA for months. It should have been signed into law six months ago, but then you got impeachment. There are things we can do to get our deficit under control, and it really starts with mandatory spending. In our health care bill last Congress, one of the things we did was block grant Medicaid to the states so that states could actually run the Medicaid program better, have more flexibility. It would save over $800 billion. That's serious savings. Plus, you get better health care outcomes for low income people. That's just one reform that we could work on together that Speaker Pelosi refuses to work on because she just [has] this obsession with impeachment.\" On President Trump following through on the promises he made, despite Democrats trying to undermine him through impeachment: \"I mean, look, President Trump negotiated a better trade deal with Mexico and with Canada. He's really been working on this from the beginning of his presidency. People thought he was going to get out of NAFTA. Look, I'm a free trade person. I want to have better trade relationships with our allies. And then you go confront China. He's doing all of that, maybe in an unconventional way, but in an effective way. And this is going to be a big win for workers across this country. So, the fact that Speaker Pelosi waited almost a year to get this thing done, it means it's over 160,000 jobs that our economy would already have and higher wages for American workers haven't happened yet because they've [been] delayed because of impeachment. But President Trump's the one who went and renegotiated this while they were criticizing and threatening to impeach him. And the great thing about this President, he doesn't let this get to him. Sure, we shouldn't be here, we shouldn't be doing this. But the President's continued to do his job, fighting for the hardworking people of this country. And I think that's what they hate the most, is that the President's following through on the things he ran on.\" On House Republicans working alongside President Trump on behalf of the American people: Let's move on and focus on real things we can get done. We absolutely can fix many big problems in health care if the Speaker were to work with the President to lower drug prices. Again, there was a bill that came out of committee, unanimously - every Republican, every Democrat - bringing generics to the market quicker, reforms at the FDA, that could get done.\" [] [Democrats] have been infatuated [with impeachment] because it's a personal vendetta against the President. They should be focused on the hardworking families that the President is fighting for. We could get a lot of those big things done. We could have real border security. We could get spending under control, Maria. The plans are out there to get spending under control. Speaker Pelosi has never wanted to address this problem. So, on all these fronts, if they don't address these next year, there will be major issues in the presidential campaign and more reasons why President Trump will get re-elected and we'll get the House back. On the consequences that impeachment will have on the Democrat party: \"It shows you, why are they trying to impeach the President? There's no crime. He didn't do anything wrong. It's because they're scared to death he'll get re-elected because their field is so weak that you've got more people talking about getting in than there are candidates that are actually leading the pack. \"There are a lot of Democrats that are going to vote today to impeach a President, not based on something that he did wrong, but based on hatred and fear of their radical left base. And they're going to pay a deep price for it. They can't go back home to a lot of these districts and explain the vote they're going to cast today. And so, a lot of them [it] might be one of the last votes they cast.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-not-what-founders-expected", "Scalise: This is Not What the Founders Expected", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joinedCBS News Channel's Special Report with Norah O'Donnell to discuss Democrats' plan to impeach President Trump from the day he was sworn in to office. Democrats' baseless articles of impeachment should have never been brought to the Floor. It's a national disgrace. Whip Scalise called out Democrats for their blatant violation of House rules to deny Republicans the right to hold minority hearings with the witnesses Democrats blocked Republicans from calling.\n  \nClickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\nOn the bipartisan support AGAINST impeachment: \"There will be no Republicans voting for impeachment and, in fact, there will be some Democrats who vote against impeachment. So, it will be the first time, by the way, in the history of our country that there will be a partisan impeachment of a President, every other one was bipartisan. The only bipartisan vote today will be against impeachment.\" On Democrats deciding to impeach President Trump from the day he was sworn in to office: \"It says they are out of step with the will of the people that they represent, and they are trying to nullify that vote in 2016 where people all across the country - 63 million people - elected Trump as President. You had Democrats from that day saying they were going to impeach him. You had over 100 Democrats vote to impeach President Trump before the Zelensky phone call for things like criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the pledge, or criticizing the members of the Squad - over 90 members voted to impeachment the President for criticizing members of the Squad. This is not what the Founders expected when they said bribery, treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors. The standard was always you start with a crime and then you investigate. This was an impeachment in search of a crime and they never found a crime yet still move forward.\" On President Trump helping Ukraine stand up to Russia, unlike Obama and Joe Biden: \"When you look at the phone call, President Trump and President Zelensky - when the President said, will you do us a favor?,' he was talking about the Russian interference and potentially the Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. And everyone knew there was corruption in Ukraine, Zelensky got elected on the platform to clean it up and we're glad that he's working on doing that. President Trump thanked him on some of the things he's doing. President Zelensky thanked President Trump for selling the Javelin missiles that allow Ukraine to stand up to Russia. Obama and Biden did not sell the Javelins to Ukraine and so they weren't able to stand up to Putin in the Obama years. I don't know why they didn't help Ukraine back then, but at least President Trump did help and give them the tools they need.\" [] \"Biden himself bragged that he withheld taxpayer money, a billion dollars, if Ukraine didn't fire the prosecutor looking into his son. A lot of people think that doesn't pass the smell test, but at some point I'm sure he'll have to answer for that. But in the meantime, it was never a condition for getting aid to Ukraine. Ukraine got the money, they never did an investigation as far as we know and President Zelensky said there was no pressure multiple times, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine said there was never any pressure and they thanked President Trump for the help he gave them to stand up to Putin, help that Obama did not give Ukraine.\" On urging enforcement of the House rules for Democrats' blatant violation of the minority party rights: \"At the beginning of the debate, [Republicans tried] to make motions to do some things. For example, the House rules require the minority get a day of hearings to present their case. That was never allowed. They rejected our ability to have what the rules allow. The rules say that we shall have a day of hearings to present the alternative case. Why Democrats refused us that ability, they don't want the facts to come out. It's been clear this is a personal vendetta against the President. It has nothing to do with impeachable offenses. Witness after witness was asked on the record, Can you name an impeachable offense,'haveyou seen any bribery?' Every one said no but moved forward because it's a personal vendetta. Let's let the voters decide who the President should be, not Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and people trying to appease the radical base in Washington.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-urges-enforcement-house-rules", "Scalise Urges Enforcement of House Rules", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) today raised a point of order on the House Floor against the articles of impeachment for failure of the Democrats to ever afford Republicans a minority day of hearings with witnesses requested, contrary to House rules. Whip Scalise emphasized how this is a blatant violation of minority rights under House Rules and urged the enforcement of this rule.\n    Clickhereor on the image above to view the remarks.\nFull remarks: \"Madam Speaker, I raise a point of order [against H. Res. 767] for failure to disclose the waiver of Clause 2(j)(1) of Rule 11, pursuant to Clause 6(g) of Rule 13, which requires the Rules Committee to specify in their report any waiver of a point of order against a measure under consideration.\n\t\n\t\"And Madam Speaker, this underlying resolution violates Clause 2(j)(1) of Rule 11, which entitles the minority [members] of the committee to have the ability to call witnesses to testify during at least one day of a hearing on any given measure.\n\t\n\t\"This was not afforded to the Judiciary Committee minority members during consideration of the Articles of Impeachment, despite numerous requests by the minority's members. Therefore, I raise a point of order against consideration of the rule, and the underlying resolution for the violation of minority rights and the denial of this evidence to be put into the record. And for this hearing, which the House rules require, which was not complied with and was denied. I would urge the enforcement of this rule.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/vendetta", "A Vendetta", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) took to the House Floor just minutes before House Democrats' vote to impeach President Trumpand noted that impeachment will not just be a stain on Democrats' legacy  it will be their only legacy. Scalise made one thing clear: this process was never about an impeachable offense, it was about carrying out a vendetta against President Trump. Democrats rigged the very rules of the impeachment inquiry, flagrantly broke House rules, abused their power in every sense, and denied President Trump and Congressional Republicans basic due process rights. Speaker Pelosi put politics over country. She put her insane partisanship over finding common solutions for the American people. It's a disgrace. Republicans are united against this travesty.\n  \nClickhereor on the image above to view the remarks.\nFull remarks: \"Impeaching a President of the United States. This isn't about some solemn duty tonight. Let's talk about what this is really about. This has been about a political vendetta. A political vendetta that didn't just start with the Zelensky call, it started long before that. Just listen to some of the quotes from Democrats in this chamber. Speaker Pelosi, quote, it's been going on for 22 months. Two and a half years, actually. We cannot accept a second term for Donald Trump. What's more serious is that he can't win.' This isn't about some crime that was committed. It's about fear that he might win re-election. That's not why you impeach a President. [Representative Al Green], quote, I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this President, he will get re-elected.' The list goes on, Madam Speaker. In fact, there are some quotes that I can't even read on this House Floor that some of our colleagues made. \"Keep in mind, more than 100 Democrats on this House Floor voted to impeach this President before the Zelensky phone call. Just look at some of these articles of impeachment that they voted for. Two years ago, 58 democrats voted to impeach the President over comments he made about NFL players kneeling for the Pledge of Allegiance  impeaching the President  over 50 Democrats voted to impeach him for that. Just this summer, over 90 Democrats voted to impeach the President for comments he made about the Squad. So, he makes comments about some other Members of Congress who make a lot of comments about him, and 95 members vote to impeach the President of the United States. This is a political vendetta. It has nothing to do with the crime committed. There was no crime. \"Why don't we listen to some of the witnesses? Obviously, [Republicans] weren't able to call all of the witnesses we wanted, but there were witnesses. In fact, Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, he's mentioned over 600 times in the Schiff report. He was their star witness. And what did he say when asked? Quote, Did President Trump ever tell you personally about any preconditions for anything?' His answer, no.' Any preconditions for the aid to be released?' No.' Any preconditions for a White House meeting? Under oath, he testified no.' \"Abuse of power, let's talk about that article of impeachment, Madam Speaker. George Washington law professor [Jonathan Turley], who admitted under oath that he voted against Trump, spoke to this claim of abuse of power. In fact, he said, quote, If you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power, it's your abuse of power.' You are doing precisely what you are criticizing the President of doing.' Abuse of power. There's a House Rule, Madam Speaker, that requires, not allows, but requires that the minority get a day of hearing, which we asked for multiple times. They broke this rule. They didn't allow us to have a minority day of hearing. They didn't want to hear the facts about this case because it was never about the facts. Because there was no crime. It is about a personal, political vendetta. \"Now, let's talk about obstruction of Congress. As they make up these terms to impeach a President because they didn't find a crime and they were looking. It's been an impeachment in search of a crime. But they talk about obstruction of Congress, saying the President defied subpoenas. Subpoena after subpoena. Let's go through the departments. The Department of State they subpoenaed. Do you know that literally just four days after the subpoena, the Secretary of State himself responded to your subpoena? The Department of Defense, a week later, responded to the subpoena. The Department of Energy responded to the subpoena. We can go on and on with all of these agencies. That's an abuse of power, that's an obstruction of Congress? Responding to your subpoena? That's what they did. They responded. You might not have liked the answer, but that's not the way this works. You don't impeach a President because you don't like his foreign policy. As so many of those foreign policy experts came and testified. But this isn't just about Donald Trump. They don't just hate Donald Trump, Madam Speaker, they hate the 63 million Americans who voted for this President. \"The forgotten men and women of this country who have been left behind. It's those forgotten men and women of this country that Washington had left behind. And what's this President doing for them? He's delivering for them. 600 jobs in Pennsylvania. 1,000 jobs, workers in Mingo Junction, Ohio. $750 million-dollar investment for 600 new jobs across this country. Detroit News, Chrysler, 6,500 new jobs. That's what this President is doing to deliver for those men and women of this country who had been left behind. It's about time somebody stands up from them, and President Trump is. So, it is a political vendetta. But if they're going to go through with this, Madam Speaker, impeachment will not just be a stain on this Democrat majority, impeachment will be their legacy.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-issues-statement-on-anticipated-impeachment-vote", "Cassidy Issues Statement on Anticipated Impeachment Vote", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.18.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy Issues Statement on Anticipated Impeachment Vote \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statement in anticipation that the U.S. House of Representatives will vote to impeach President Donald Trump:\r\nI will be a juror and will take this seriously, but this impeachment is motivated by Democrats' hatred of Donald Trump, not justice. Impeachment is sucking up all the time that could be used for positive things. We need to get back to the kitchen table issues that actually affect Louisiana families, said Dr. Cassidy.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-to-vote-against-domestic-spending-bill-support-defense-spending-bill", "Cassidy to Vote Against Domestic Spending Bill, Support Defense Spending Bill", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.18.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy to Vote Against Domestic Spending Bill, Support Defense Spending Bill \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced today his intention to vote against HR 1865, the 2020 domestic priorities and international assistance spending bill, that would add more than $400 billion to the deficit while failing to address key Louisiana priorities. Cassidy will support the defense spending bill.\r\nCassidy is opposed to the provisions in the domestic spending bill that repeal the Cadillac Tax and Health Insurance Tax (HIT), which alone would add more than $350 billion to the deficit, without providing guarantees that Americans will see lower premiums.\r\nThis legislation increases the deficit by $400B and lets health insurance companies skip out on taxes they agreed to pay in order to force Obamacare onto Americans. Now, insurance companies are making record profits and they don't want to pay the taxes they agreed to pay, said Dr. Cassidy.\r\nThe domestic spending bill also ignores Congress' responsibility to reform the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by kicking the can down the road with another temporary extension of the program, instead of passing a long-term fix to improve accountability, affordability and sustainability. Cassidy recently introduced bipartisan and bicameral legislation to reform and provide long-term stability for the NFIP.      What it doesn't do is reform the National Flood Insurance Program and ensure Louisiana homeowners can get affordable flood insurance. Instead, it pushes the 14th temporary extension in the just two years. It does not address Surprise Medical Billing, does not lower the cost of prescription drugs and most of all, does not serve our country as a whole, said Dr. Cassidy.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-s-provision-to-bar-tax-cheaters-from-federal-contracts-included-in-spending-deal", "Sen. 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The team\u2019s app titled \u201cHappybytes\u201d is designed to help with suicide prevention and connect individuals experiencing depression with local resources.\n\nIn coordination with Congressman Higgins\u2019 office, CGI, UL-Lafayette Informatics Research Institute, CajunCodeFest, and WAITR will host a project showcase and awards ceremony on Wednesday, December 18 at the LITE Center in Lafayette. Students will demonstrate their apps and receive recognition for their efforts. For more information, click here.\n\nThe \u201cHappybytes\u201d app will be featured in an exhibition at the U.S. Capitol. The students are also invited to attend the annual \u201cHouse of Code\u201d reception in Washington D.C., which features winning teams from across the country. That event is scheduled for Spring 2020.\n\nThis year\u2019s competition saw 11 teams with a total of 40 students participating. The winning team was selected by a panel of expert judges including computer science and software professionals from McNeese State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana.\n\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cI want to congratulate Brendan, Weston, Jaydon, and Cailey on their winning app. They used their coding abilities to connect individuals with suicide prevention and other local mental health resources. This is a real problem that we face as a society, and the Happybytes app helps address that issue. The students challenged themselves with advanced coding methods, and their hard work paid off.\n\n\u201cI would also like to thank our community partners for their continued support of the Congressional App Challenge. This is a team effort.\u201d\n\n\u2014\n\nAbout the Congressional App Challenge\n\nThe U.S. House of Representatives officially launched the Challenge in 2015 to help inspire innovation and learning in computer science and coding. The Challenge is a nationwide effort that allows students to compete against their peers by creating an application or \u201capp\u201d for mobile, tablet, or computer devices. Student teams compete against each other by congressional district, and the winning apps are showcased at the U.S. Capitol each year.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/17/higgins-votes-against-spending-bills-totaling-14t/", "Higgins Votes Against Spending Bills Totaling $1.4T", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cWhile I support many elements within these Appropriations Bills, their totality forces a level of deficit spending that I cannot support. American generations yet unborn are being forced to inherit another trillion dollars added to our national debt. American families must balance budgets and control spending, thus, in service of those American families, Congress should minimize or eliminate annual deficit spending and begin to address the national debt. Further, the use of minibus and omnibus spending packages is reflective of a broken, unrighteous budget process. Bundling incredibly disparate bills together forces representatives to violate core principles and ideological beliefs. We have 12 Appropriations Bills, so Congress should have 12 Appropriations votes.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-higgins-announces-winners-2019-congressional-app-challenge", "Congressman Higgins Announces Winners of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy students Brendan Duhon, Weston Simon, Jaydon Huval, and Cailey Bianchini are the overall winners of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for Louisiana's 3rd District. The team's app titled Happybytes is designed to help with suicide prevention and connect individuals experiencing depression with local resources.\nIn coordination with Congressman Higgins' office, CGI, UL-Lafayette Informatics Research Institute, CajunCodeFest, and WAITR will host a project showcase and awards ceremony on Wednesday, December 18 at the LITE Center in Lafayette. Students will demonstrate their apps and receive recognition for their efforts. For more information, click here.\nThe Happybytes app will be featured in an exhibition at the U.S. Capitol. The students are also invited to attend the annual House of Code reception in Washington D.C., which features winning teams from across the country. That event is scheduled for Spring 2020.\nThis year's competition saw 11 teams with a total of 40 students participating. The winning team was selected by a panel of expert judges including computer science and software professionals from McNeese State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana.\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n \n\tI want to congratulate Brendan, Weston, Jaydon, and Cailey on their winning app. They used their coding abilities to connect individuals with suicide prevention and other local mental health resources. This is a real problem that we face as a society, and the Happybytes app helps address that issue. The students challenged themselves with advanced coding methods, and their hard work paid off.\n\tI would also like to thank our community partners for their continued support of the Congressional App Challenge. This is a team effort. \n \n\n--\nAbout the Congressional App Challenge\nThe U.S. House of Representatives officially launched the Challenge in 2015 to help inspire innovation and learning in computer science and coding. The Challenge is a nationwide effort that allows students to compete against their peers by creating an application or \"app\" for mobile, tablet, or computer devices. Student teams compete against each other by congressional district, and the winning apps are showcased at the U.S. Capitol each year.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-votes-against-spending-bills-totaling-14t", "Higgins Votes Against Spending Bills Totaling $1.4T", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against two minibus packages totaling over $1.4 trillion in spending.\n \n\tWhile I support many elements within these Appropriations Bills, their totality forces a level of deficit spending that I cannot support. American generations yet unborn are being forced to inherit another trillion dollars added to our national debt. American families must balance budgets and control spending, thus, in service of those American families, Congress should minimize or eliminate annual deficit spending and begin to address the national debt. Further, the use of minibus and omnibus spending packages is reflective of a broken, unrighteous budget process. Bundling incredibly disparate bills together forces representatives to violate core principles and ideological beliefs. We have 12 Appropriations Bills, so Congress should have 12 Appropriations votes.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://garretgraves.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/usmca-statement", "USMCA Statement", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Garret Graves", "G000577", "garretgraves.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) released the following statement today regarding Congress and President Trump reaching an agreement on the new United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement (USMCA), which the House will vote on next week: \n\nTrade with Mexico and Canada is important to Louisiana's families and employment opportunities, but it needs to be fair. We cannot allow for unfair trade practices to simply shift jobs from the United States to Mexico. This new trade deal is going to inject even more energy into America's growing economy, and its positive impacts will be felt across the country  especially in Louisiana. In 2018, Louisiana exported $9.22 billion worth of goods to Mexico and $3.57 billion to Canada. With this new agreement moving closer to ratification, the stage is set for even more explosive growth. The $68 billion of new economic activity and nearly 200,000 new American jobs that USMCA is expected to produce come on the heels of last week's historic jobs report showing the unemployment rate at a 50-year low and consumer confidence red-lining at 99% -- all of which show what our economy can do when government isn't in the way. Bottom line is this: USMCA is an improvement to NAFTA, it puts American workers first  where they belong, and it should not have been held hostage by congressional politics this long. I urge swift passage in the House and Senate.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/impeachment-search-crime", "Impeachment in Search of a Crime", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) and Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) at today's leadership press stakeout to discuss Democrats' baseless accusations against President Trump on the eve of their partisan vote in support of impeachment. Despite any evidence of a crime committed by President Trump, Democrats have used impeachment as a personal and political vendetta to overturn the results of the 2016 election. Whip Scalise emphasized how Democrats have failed to make their case clear to the American people while President Trump and House Republicans have remained focused on fighting for American families.  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch his full remarks.\nOn Democrats wanting to impeach President Trump since the day he took office: \"Tomorrow's impeachment vote will be a stain on Nancy Pelosi's legacy as Speaker. From the very beginning, you could see that this was more about settling a political score. A personal vendetta against President Trump where the most radical elements of Speaker Pelosi's base called for impeachment before he even took the oath of office. ... By the way, tomorrow will mark the first time in our country's history where a president was impeached on a party line vote. Never before has that been done. And, in fact, the only bipartisan vote tomorrow will be against impeachment. And so, instead of starting with a crime - which is what the case was with Andrew Johnson's impeachment, with Richard Nixon's impeachment, and with Bill Clinton's impeachment. They all started with a specific crime and then ultimately went through their inquiries and moved to impeachment. That's never been the case here. There was never a crime. It was an impeachment in search of a crime meandering around as a witch hunt trying to find something wrong, starting with the Mueller investigation. They kept promising - you remember Schiff's statements - he promised that he had more than circumstantial evidence that there was collusion with the President and Russia. And then the Mueller report comes out, and in fact there was no collusion.\" On how Democrats' obsession with impeachment has interfered with working on real solutions for American families: \"Instead of just ending it there, they kept going on. And then there was a whistleblower report. We heard all the salacious allegations against the President, and none of those turned out to be the case. In fact, every single witness that came before the committees of jurisdiction when they were asked point-blank, under oath, 'Can your name and impeachable offense?' Not one. 'Can you name any bribery?' Not one. And again, at that point, you would've thought maybe [common sense] would prevail and they would move on to actually working to solve the problems that people across this country face. When there was a unanimous bill that came out of committee to lower drug prices - literally a layup waiting to be sent to the President's desk, where every Republican and every Democrat on the committee of jurisdiction voted to lower drug prices and to bring generics to market quicker so that families could be playing less today for their drugs at home, which is a major problem. [Democrats] wouldn't bring that bill to the [House Floor] because they were so fixatedwith impeachment.\" On President Trump standing with Ukraine, unlike President Obama: \"So, this obsession continued and it's going to play itself out tomorrow. It's going to be a sad day. But again, when you look throughout history, when they focused on the facts, those were the times that they produced bipartisan votes. The facts here have strongly supported the President. The Zelensky call, you ask Zelensky, and he said he appreciated the phone call. He actually got Javelin missiles that he was able to buy that President Trump sold him to stand up to Russia that President Obama and Joe Biden wouldn't sell. Why wouldn't President Obama and Joe Biden sell missiles to Ukraine so they could stand up to Russia and Putin? I don't know, it's a good question that they should be asked. But President Trump did. In his first year, he sold those Javelin missiles. There was no exchange of any quid pro quo. There was no investigation. He did it because it was the right thing to do and he stood by an ally. President Zelensky thanked him for that and in fact, when asked, President Zelensky said there was no pressure on the phone call. He got the aid and ultimately there was no investigation, and yet they still march on. Not because they found any facts or evidence, but because they've been wanting to score a political and personal vendetta against the President that started well before the phone call.\" On Democrats using impeachment as a personal vendetta against President Trump: \"Before the phone call, over 100 Democrats voted to impeach this President, before the phone call. In fact, there is one article that we forced a vote on that they were trying to impeach the President because he criticized NFL players for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance. Over 50 Democrats voted to impeach the President of the United States for that. Now, do people across the country think that meets the constitutional standard of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors? Of course not. Doesn't pass the smell test. But it shows that this has been a personal vendetta against the President, not a fact-finding mission in search of an impeachable offense, because there was no impeachable offense.\" On House Republicans working alongside President Trump to deliver on promises made to the American people: \"So, we're going to continue doing our work. We're going to work hard to pass USMCA so we can have a better trade deal with our friends Canada and Mexico, and then work to get better deals with other countries around the world. And then focus our efforts on holding China accountable. And I'm glad that President Trump continues to work for the American people and the families that he fought for, the forgotten men and women in this country that had been left behind. President Trump is still fighting for them, even while Pelosi is wasting her majority on trying to score a personal vendetta.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-tillis-introduce-santa-act-to-protect-children-from-dangerous-online-products", "Cassidy, Tillis, Menendez Introduce SANTA Act to Protect Children from Dangerous Online Products", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.17.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Tillis, Menendez Introduce SANTA Act to Protect Children from Dangerous Online Products \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  As Americans increasingly turn to online vendors for holiday shopping, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) want parents to know that what they buy is safe for their families. They introduced legislation today to help parents protect their children against dangerous counterfeit toys and products.\r\nThe Stop All Nefarious Toys in America (SANTA) Act would require new information be included in online marketplaces that clearly show product origins and business name and contact information, among other requirements, for children's toys and products.\r\nNot all online vendors' toys are as reliable as those from Santa's workshop. Parents should know that the presents they buy their children are safe. This bill is about keeping our children safe both during the holidays and throughout the year, said Dr. Cassidy.\r\nAs families across North Carolina celebrate Christmas and the holidays, parents buying toys should have the peace of mind that they are buying safe and reliable products for their children,said Senator Tillis.I'm proud to co-introduce the SANTA Act so online marketplaces like Amazon must include important information to ensure families aren't buying counterfeit products that put their children at risk.\r\nAs New Jerseyans prepare to celebrate the holidays, all of us want our children to have funnot get hurt by overlooked hazards in toys,said Sen. Menendez. Our Stop All Nefarious Toys in America Act will ensure that online customers are not duped into buying dangerous counterfeit toys that could cause unwanted injuries and keep our children safe during the holidays and beyond.\r\nNew information required under the SANTA Act include:\r\n \r\n Full name, full business address, whether the seller is the manufacturer, importer, retailer or reseller of the children's product and contact information for the seller, including working phone number and working email.\r\n Online marketplaces should also notify parents if the product is fulfilled or shipped from a seller or warehouse that is different from the original seller.\r\n Online marketplaces should verify seller information prior to listing through government issued ID, bank accounts, individual and business contact information. This should exclude sellers of used children's products and resellers of children's products.\r\n \r\nThe SANTA Act has received support from the Toy Association, the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) and the Halloween & Costume Association.\r\nThe Toy Association applauds Senator Bill Cassidy for his leadership on the SANTA Act. The legislation is an important step forward in empowering families who shop online. By providing online shoppers with information on who, and from where, they are purchasing toys from they will be better able to make smart, informed decisions about the toys and games being purchased online for their loved ones, said Steve Pasierb, president and CEO of the Toy Association. Third-party sellers on online marketplaces have thus far not been held to the same high level of accountability that is expected from the U.S. toy and retail industries. Online sellers who seek to deceive consumersand profit from the sale of untested, unsafe and fake toys  and place children and other consumers at risk  must be stopped. This bill stands to be an important tool toward achieving this objective.\r\nJPMA supports this effort to require greater transparency in online marketplaces so Consumers can better know the source of products that provide for the care and protection of babies. Consumers expect legitimate branded, safety tested, affordable baby products when they purchase them online, said Kelly Mariotti, Executive Director of JPMA.\r\nConsumers want to know that when they are buying children's Halloween Costumes and accessories online that the products are legitimate brands and safe. 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Kennedy Secures Funding To Help Distribute $26 Billion in Unclaimed U.S. Savings Bonds", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/impeachment-political-vendetta", "Impeachment is a Political Vendetta", "2019-12-14", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's Hannity last night and Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends this morning to discuss Democrats' baseless articles of impeachment that were unveiled this week. Despite years of witch hunts and investigations, Democrats have not produced a single piece of evidence that President Trump engaged in bribery, extortion, or any other high crimes or misdemeanors. And yet, this week, they unveiled two articles to impeach the president. Whip Scalise blasted House Democrats for pursuing their unprecedented, partisan impeachment as a political vendetta in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election.  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the Hannity interview.\n\tClickhereor on the image above to watch the Fox & Friends interview.\nTranscribed remarks from Fox News Channel's Hannity: On President Trump helping Ukraine stand up to Russian aggression, unlike Obama and Joe Biden: \"When you look, I mean, even in [Chairman Adam Schiff's] statements on the comedy show, he expresses his disdain for the people of Ukraine and their fight against Russia. Where was that disdain when Barack Obama was saying no to Ukraine, when [Ukraine] said, 'Hey, help us stand up to Russia?' \"You know, Sean, President Trump has sold 360 Javelin missiles to Ukraine. [President Zelensky] actually thanked President Trump on that infamous phone call. Do you know how many of those Javelins Obama sold? Not one, zero. Obama would not help Ukraine. Obama and Biden, by the way, why haven't they answered for that?\" On Democrats' baseless allegations in their disastrous articles of impeachment: \"So, President Trump gave them the things they need, there was no quid pro quo. You even look at the responses, there were agencies, [Democrats] say 'obstruction of Congress,' whatever they mean by that. Agencies like the Department of Defense, [Democrats] subpoenaed information. \"I've got a letter, you had October 7th, they subpoenaed the Department of Defense for information. On October 15th, the Secretary of Defense himself responded, and not once did they come back to the Defense Department. Not once did they go to court. \"These agencies complied, they might not have given them the answers they wanted, in some cases they might have gone on to courts like President Obama and every other president in history has done. Fast and furious, took us six years to get information. [...] \"And you look at what we've done to comply. What President Trump is doing, by the way, to get the facts out there, releasing the transcripts to show there was no quid pro quo, and yet they still go on with this. It's a political vendetta. It's not an impeachment. That's with the people of this country are seeing right before our very eyes.\" On Democrats' unprecedented partisan impeachment sham: \"Not only will there be no Republicans, there will be Democrats voting against impeachment. Never before in the history of our country have they ran through a partisan impeachment. Never before. It was always bipartisan. Until now, there will be Democrats voting no as well.\" Transcribed remarks from Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends: On Democrats' mission to impeach President Trump from day one, despite any evidence of an impeachable offense: \"[Democrats] biggest problem is that they never started with facts. That's how every other impeachment began, where there was an actual crime committed. There's never been a crime in this case. They've tried to find a crime starting with the Muller investigation. It's been very clear, and I think you're seeing through it this whole impeachment inquiry, this is a political vendetta. This is all about them, first of all, not liking the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected President in 2016, and frankly, they're scared to death he's going to win again because he's been delivering on his promises. \"But that's not why you impeach a President. It's why we have an election next year, let the voters decide this. But there are no facts, there's nothing to impeach this President on. The articles of impeachment that just came out confirmed that, and yet instead of giving it up and moving on to things that people really care about, like lowering drug prices, and securing in our border, it's like their radical base has demanded this the day that Donald Trump got elected office and they can't help themselves.\" On Dems using impeachment as a purely political exercise: \"[Democrats] are going back home and they're hearing from people saying 'you ran saying you were going to be different, you said you're going to work with everybody, and now all you've done is have this obsession against Donald Trump, not because he broke any laws.' The President didn't do anything wrong. The phone call, [President Zelensky]himself said there was nothing wrong, but because you don't like the results of an election, and frankly you're more afraid of your radical left base in Washington than you are the constituents who elected you back home, that's the real reckoning. \"Look, every one of these Democrats, if you look at the facts the clear vote is no, you vote against impeachment on these articles because there is no law broken. The constitutional standard is high crimes and misdemeanors. Here there's not even a traffic violation, and yet they're still going to do it, not because of the crime, but because they're afraid of the repercussions from the radical left like [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] up in Washington. That's where they're going to pay a political price, but it's a sad day for our country that it's come to this.\" On Pelosi finally agreeing to bring USMCA to the Floor, after nearly a year of delays: \"It's not only desperation, its fabrication. Look, President Trump worked for over a year to negotiate a better trade deal with Mexico and Canada. He's the one who negotiated that, not Nancy Pelosi. And, by the way, that should have been law months ago. At the beginning of this year that could have been law, and over 160,000 new jobs would've be created. You know when people wonder what is the price of impeachment, first of all, it's trampling over our Constitution in the standard of impeachment, but it's all the things that have not gotten done like USMCA, like lowering drug prices, and that's the problem that [Democrats] haven't delivered for the American people. But luckily, President Trump has delivered and continues to.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-votes-no-impeachment", "JOHNSON VOTES NO ON IMPEACHMENT", "2019-12-13", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today released the following statement after voting against articles of impeachment brought before the House Judiciary Committee. Democrats, who yesterday abruptly postponed the vote after 14 hours of debate, were unable to secure the support of a single Republican committee member in their partisan effort to impeach the President of the United States:\nOur radical, liberal colleagues have vowed to impeach President Donald J. Trump since the day of his election. They have desperately created a fraudulent, unprecedented process to pursue that goal, and now they are pulling the trigger on what was described by the Minority's expert witness in our House Judiciary Committee as 'the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president.'\nThe real abuse of power here is on the part of the House Democrats, as they have recklessly pursued this impeachment20 times faster than the impeachment investigation of Bill Clintonto reach their predetermined political outcome. This impeachment will fail, and the Democrats will justly pay a heavy political price for it. But the Pandora's Box they have opened today will do irreparable damage to our country in the years ahead. God help us.\nTo watch Johnson's closing remarks at yesterday's House Judiciary Committee markup, click here.\nJohnson also released a line-by-line analysis yesterday critiquing House Democrats' articles of impeachment. To view,click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/impeachment-disaster-dems", "Impeachment is a Disaster for Dems", "2019-12-13", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel'sThe Ingraham Anglelast night to discuss the deeply flawed process and striking abuse of power that House Democrats have used to pursue their disastrous articles of impeachment. Whip Scalise blasted Speaker Pelosi for the anti-democratic course of action she's taken on this impeachment sham. From the beginning, Speaker Pelosi and her liberal lieutenants have denied President Trump his rights, broken House rules to push their phony narrative, and tried to undo an election because the radical Democrat base can't accept the results. It's disappointing to see what the Democrat party has become.  \n\t\n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\nOn Democrats bringing disastrous articles of impeachment to the House Floor: It's sad to see what [the Democratic] party has become and look, the socialist movement has taken over on the Democrat side. There are no moderates. There's surely no liberals even. It's a socialist party and you're seeing it play out. And so, with these articles of impeachment, there's no case. The President didn't break any laws. In fact, the President actually helped Ukraine. Barack Obama didn't help Ukraine. He didn't sell the Javelins. [] It's a farce. It's a sham. [Democrats] are losing in the court of public opinion miserably. There are Democrats right now who want to vote no [on impeachment] who can't, because they know [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] is going to primary them, so they're going to vote yes. There is nothing to impeach this President on. I think it's played out incredibly well. President Trump has stayed focused on getting the economy back on track. This is going to be a disaster for them next week. On Dems using impeachment as a purely political exercise: [Democrats] still keep referencing the Mueller report. And then you read the articles of impeachment, there's not a single reference to the Mueller report, because there was nothing impeachable in the Mueller report. There is nothing impeachable on the phone call. There is nothing to impeach this President on. Number one, and you know this, they are upset that he won the 2016 election. And two, they are scared to death that he's going to win the 2020 election because he's done everything he promised. The economy is back on track. We're creating more jobs. We're going to get the USMCA trade deal. And so, look at their opponents. They've got a bunch of socialists competing against each other and the country has tuned them out. So, [Democrats] are in a free fall as a party. And so, their answer is to impeach the President. They ought to go and figure out how to rebuild their party as opposed to how to destroy our democracy.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-announces-2019-congressional-app-challenge-winner", "Scalise Announces 2019 Congressional App Challenge Winner", "2019-12-13", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)today announced the 2019 Congressional App Challenge winner for Louisiana's First Congressional District. This year's winner, Jakob Wismar from Haynes Academy, took home the prize. Jakob created ISS Search  Space Station Tracker, an app that allows you to easily track the International Space Station. Whip Scalise said: Congratulations to Jakob Wismar from Haynes Academy in Kenner, Louisiana for winning the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for Louisiana's First Congressional District! As a former software engineer, I am proud to see students in Southeast Louisiana pursue an interest in technology and the applied sciences to provide innovative opportunities that may not be available otherwise. It's critical to ensure that we preserve America's superiority and involvement in space exploration, and Jakob's app makes it easier for anyone with an interest in learning more about the International Space Station an opportunity to engage in our country's space program.    I applaud Jakob for his creativity and hard work, and commend Haynes Academy for their investment in encouraging students to embrace computer science and technological education.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-joins-senate-bipartisan-task-force-for-combating-anti-semitism", "Cassidy Joins Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism", "2019-12-13", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.13.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy Joins Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced today that he has joined a Senate task force charged with combating anti-Semitism.\r\nAnti-Semitism and religious bigotry have no place in the United States, said Dr. Cassidy. It's a pleasure to join mybipartisan colleaguesto educate and protect our communities.\r\nThe task force is chaired by U.S. Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV).\r\nWith anti-Semitism on the rise here in the US and around the world, we are taking a stand against this disturbing ideology and violent acts of hatred,said Lankford and Rosen.We are proud to be joined by colleagues on both sides of the aisle who are committed to working together to prevent anti-Semitism before it starts, and to educate, explain, and empower our communities to combat anti-Semitism.\r\nEarlier this year, Lankford and Rosen launched theSenate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism. The collaboration is the first of its kind in the United States Senate, serving as a corollary to the House of Representative's Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism.\r\nTask force members include U.S. Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tom Carper (D-DE), Rob Portman (R-OH), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tim Scott (R-SC), Bob Casey (D-PA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Chris Coons (D-DE), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Todd Young (R-IN), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Gary Peters (D-MI), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Doug Jones (D-AL), Mike Braun (R-IN), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Josh Hawley (R-MO),bringing the task force to a total of 32 Senators, with an even number of Republicans and Democrats.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-r-la-urges-declassification-of-entire-fisa-record-on-former-trump-campaign-aide-carter-page", "Sen. Kennedy (R-La.) Urges Declassification Of Entire FISA Record On Former Trump Campaign Aide Carter Page", "2019-12-13", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/12/higgins-pelosi-drug-plan-another-far-left-messaging-bill-threatens-bipartisan/", "Higgins: Pelosi Drug Plan is Another Far-Left Messaging Bill, Threatens Bipartisan Efforts to Lower Drug Costs", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cSpeaker Pelosi\u2019s drug plan is bad policy, designed to increase government control over the health care industry and move America closer to fully socialized government-controlled health care. The included provisions attack the free market and would lead to higher drug prices and fewer cures. Further, Speaker Pelosi\u2019s bill undermines bipartisan efforts to lower prescription drug prices, efforts which have indeed resulted in many next-generation cures and beneficial drugs being introduced over just the last two years. This includes legislation like H.R. 19, which would encourage innovation, promote more low-cost generics, and cap seniors\u2019 out-of-pocket costs. Unlike Speaker Pelosi\u2019s H.R. 3 socialist plan, the bipartisan alternative which I support, H.R. 19, has the support of President Trump and would significantly help American families. That\u2019s the bill the Democrats should have brought to the House floor. Instead, we have this monstrosity messaging bill, politically-driven and strictly intended to appease the far-left base of Speaker Pelosi\u2019s party. America grows weary of this socialist political strategy to seize power and diminish American freedoms.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-pelosi-drug-plan-another-far-left-messaging-bill-threatens-bipartisan", "Higgins: Pelosi Drug Plan is Another Far-Left Messaging Bill, Threatens Bipartisan Efforts to Lower Drug Costs", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) voted today against H.R. 3, Speaker Pelosi's far-left prescription drug plan, which has no chance at passing the Senate or becoming law.\nThe bill would:\n \nEstablish government price-setting mandates, allowing the federal government to determine who gets which drugs and at what price.\n\tCreate a 95% tax on manufacturers that will lead to higher drug prices and fewer options.\n\tUndermine access to lifesaving cures, blocking an estimated 100 new medicines from reaching patients.\n\tJeopardizemonths of bipartisan work to cap senior citizens' out-of-pocket costs for prescription drug spending by opting for a partisan plan to appease progressives.\n\t\t\n \nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n \n\tSpeaker Pelosi's drug plan is bad policy, designed to increase government control over the health care industry and move America closer to fully socialized government-controlled health care. The included provisions attack the free market and would lead to higher drug prices and fewer cures. Further, Speaker Pelosi's bill undermines bipartisan efforts to lower prescription drug prices, efforts which have indeed resulted in many next-generation cures and beneficial drugs being introduced over just the last two years. This includes legislation like H.R. 19, which would encourage innovation, promote more low-cost generics, and cap seniors' out-of-pocket costs. Unlike Speaker Pelosi's H.R. 3 socialist plan, the bipartisan alternative which I support, H.R. 19, has the support of President Trump and would significantly help American families. That's the bill the Democrats should have brought to the House floor. Instead, we have this monstrosity messaging bill, politically-driven and strictly intended to appease the far-left base of Speaker Pelosi's party. America grows weary of this socialist political strategy to seize power and diminish American freedoms.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-destroys-house-democrats-impeachment-line-line", "JOHNSON DESTROYS HOUSE DEMOCRATS IMPEACHMENT LINE BY LINE", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04), a Constitutional law attorney and member of the House Judiciary Committee, todayreleased aline-by-line analysisobliterating the Democrats' articles of impeachment. Johnson writes:\n  Our radical liberal colleagues have vowed to impeach President Donald J. Trump since the day of his election, they have desperately created a fraudulent, unprecedented process to pursue that goal, and now they are pulling the trigger on what was described by the Minority's expert witness in our House Judiciary Committee as 'the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president. This is impeachment a sham, and here is why.\n  \n\tFor Johnson's line-by-line analysis of House Democrats' articles of impeachment,click here.\n\nTo watch Johnson's opening remarks from today's House Judiciary Committee markup,click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-votes-yes-defense-bill", "JOHNSON VOTES YES ON DEFENSE BILL", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04), whose district is home to Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB) and Fort Polk Army Base (AB), voted in favor of a $738 billion defense bill that delivers on key Louisiana priorities, including:\n \nIncreased pay for military service members\n\tImproved housing for military families\n\tEngine replacements for B-52s at Barksdale AFB\n\tThe extension of an innovative, cost-saving pilot program that has allowed Fort Polk AB to partner with local businesses for services and infrastructure improvements\n\tOccupational licensing reimbursements for military spouses\n\tThe repeal of the so-called Widow's Tax on military survivor benefits\n \nThis defense bill is a win for our men and women in uniform, a win for our military families and a win for Louisiana,said Johnson.I'm proud to support a bill that does so much to strengthen our military and keep our nation safe. Congress ought to be spending a lot more time on important work like this and a lot less on the politically-motivated, partisan nonsense the majority party is currently obsessed with.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://richmond.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-richmond-statement-passage-future-act", "Rep. Richmond Statement on the Passage of the FUTURE Act", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Democrat", "House", "LA", "Cedric Richmond", "R000588", "richmond.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.  Congressman Cedric Richmond (LA-02) released the following statement on the passage of the FUTURE Act, a bipartisan bill that secures critical permanent funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs):\nThe passage of the FUTURE Act marks a turning point both in higher education and American history, said Rep. Richmond. Despite facing persistent financial disadvantages in comparison to majority institutions, HBCUs have continued to produce top tier talent. HBCUs and other MSIs deserve sustainable funding, and this bill provides just that. As a product of an HBCU education and having prominent HBCUs in my district and throughout Louisiana, I am proud that this bill will enable more potential college students the chance at a quality education.\nWe are definitely thankful to Congressman Richmond and the members of Congress who supported passage of the FUTURE Act. Dillard University has been able to use these funds in the past for capacity building activities, from establishing a quality enhancement plan as part of our accreditation process, to support of student housing and instructional technology. As a national leader in producing graduates in physics and nursing, as well as those who will go on to receive doctorates in the biological and life sciences, the support provided by the FUTURE Act ensures the university continues its key role as a vehicle for social mobility for students, and an engine of economic development for New Orleans and Louisiana.-Dr. Walter Kimbrough, President of Dillard University.\nLet me express deep gratitude to our legislators for bipartisan passage of the FUTURE ACT. With this exemplary result, you have secured funding for the great work of our minority-serving institutions, whose exemplary efforts are essential to our national strength in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and other creative fields. Xavier is one of the nation's leaders in STEM education, and an example of the vital contributions of HBCUs to the nation. -Dr. Reynold Verret, President of Xavier University of Louisiana.\n\"It is a great day for Historically Black Colleges and Universities as we applaud Congress on the passage of the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act. The funding provided through this important legislation will allow hundreds of thousands of young people to expand opportunities in postsecondary education. This critical Title III funding ensures stability for our universities for the next 10 years. We appreciate the leadership and commitment of Congressman Richmond to the Southern University System, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and higher education.\" -Dr. Ray Belton. President-Chancellor of Southern University System\nEach time the federal government designates more funding to HBCUs, they are making a bold declaration that these institutions are still undeniably essential for national progress. I am excited about the advancement that the FUTURE Act will fund for students at minority serving institutions. -Richard Gallot, Jr., JD, President of Grambling State University\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/dems-never-accepted-results-2016-election-and-never-will", "Dems Never Accepted the Results of the 2016 Election and Never Will", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)pressed Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) in today's colloquy to explain the deeply flawed process that House Democrats have used to pursue the impeachment of President Trump. Whip Scalise pointed out that Chairman Schiff has targeted his political opponents' phone records, Chairman Nadler has denied Republicans the minority hearing they are entitled to under House rules, and they have both called committed partisans without firsthand knowledge of the underlying events to advocate for the impeachment of an innocent president. All the while, Democrats have accused President Trump of any number of different crimes, yet been unable to provide any direct evidence that he has committed impeachable offenses. Given that over 100 Democrats voted to impeach President Trump before the July phone call took place, it's no surprise they're not giving him a fair shake. See highlights from the colloquy below. On Democrats bringing baseless impeachment articles to the Floor:  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the clip.\n\"When you look at the articles of impeachment at the beginning of all of this, of course, there was the Mueller investigation for 22 months, which alleged many things. And ultimately, the results turned out that there were no crimes committed by the President. As we had looked into when we were in the majority and knew that years ago, but for whatever reason others wanted to continue making assertions, those assertions turned out to be false. \"And so instead of dropping it there, then you had the whistleblower complaint and the allegations of all of these things that happened on a phone call. Only problem is, the President then released the transcript of the phone call and not only did those things not get reflected in the transcript, but the two people who actually participated, who should be listened to the most, both said there was nothing wrong with the call. President Zelensky was asked, was there any pressure applied? He said no, he got the money, he got the money and he also got the Javelin missiles. He thanked President Trump on the phone call for the aid that allowed him to push back Russia. And as I'll point out, President Trump sold 360 Javelin missiles to Ukraine so they could defend themselves pushing back against Russia. President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sold zero Javelin missiles to Ukraine to help them push back from Russia. \"So, all of this assertion that one President's not allowing Ukraine to get the aid they need to stand up to Russia, turned out to be true. President Obama's the one who didn't allow Ukraine to have the tools they need. He sold them zero, they asked, please sell us the Javelin missiles so we can defend ourselves against Russian aggression,' and President Obama and Vice President Biden said no. Why? That's a good question. Maybe somebody wants to open an investigation into that, but in the meantime, President Trump said yes. He actually sold [Ukraine] 360 Javelins. President Zelensky, on the call, thanked him. Was there pressure applied? Actually there were thanks involved. President Zelensky thanking President Trump for allowing him the tools to stand up to Russia. He said we may buy more, but he thanked him for the ones that he sold. No quid pro quo, there was no investigations. They asked for help and President Trump said absolutely, we will help you stand up to Russia,' and the facts are there. \"And then you look at the catch-all articles of impeachment. It wasn't the bribery and the quid pro quo that were alleged for months, because there was none. And so that's not in the articles of impeachment. So, you see these catch-all phrases like abuse of power,' obstruction of Congress,' and then you read what they allege to be obstruction of Congress  it's the President exercising his rights. The different federal agencies that were asked for information, this is the obstruction of Congress. These federal agencies all responded, they responded to the committee, said here, let's have a conversation about how to get you information that you want without violating the executive privileges that every President's been afforded.\" On the lack of criminal evidence in the Mueller report:  \nClickhereor on the image above to watch the clip.\n  The gentleman cites the Mueller report. The whole investigation that went on for 22 months with thousands of subpoenas, witnesses, innuendoes, and at the end of the day, with the full authority, by the way, Mr. Mueller had to file any criminal charges. If there were any laws broken that he saw, not one charge was [brought forward], and you know what's the most interesting and maybe the most telling, is that in your articles of impeachment, eight pages that you filed, not one time did you mention the Mueller report, because there is nothing criminal in the Mueller report. If there was, you would have put it in the articles of impeachment.\n\t\n\t\"You're trying to remove a President of the United States from office. And the Constitution says the standard should be treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Which you would think means you would list high crimes and misdemeanors, or treason, or bribery? There was not a word of bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors listed in this. Not one time is the Mueller report mentioned. So, if there's all that rich data, it would be here and it's not, because there wasn't anything that came out of the Mueller report.\" On House Democrats' abuse of power during this sham impeachment process:  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the clip.\n\n\"You want to talk about abuse of power? What's going on in that Judiciary Committee right now is an abuse of power. Denying the minority the ability to even present the other side of an argument. You've got two sides of any argument, and maybe you think you've made a strong case if you only present yours. You look at what's going on across the country when only one side's been presented, the country still thinks this is a waste of time. Not going after a President because he broke the law, but going after a President because you don't like him, you're unhappy that he got elected in 2016, and you're afraid he might get elected again in 2020. Well you know what, I trust the people of this country to make that decision next year, and they will. Not Members of Congress who have expressed that they wanted him impeached before he took the oath of office. Members of Congress on your side who said, impeachable offenses aren't required to impeach a President.' And so, when we talk of abuse of power, absolutely  that's an abuse of power.\" On House Democrats' alarming FISA Court abuse:  \n\n\n\tClickhereor on the image above to watch the clip.\n\t  \"But then you look at something equally alarming that's come out, that deserves real attention in this Congress, and that's the Horowitz report. Seventeen listed abuses of the FISA process. The gentleman knows, and I supported the FISA process to allow us to combat terrorists. It's a controversial program, a program that's got a very narrow scope to allow the United States to protect our national security, but it also has a very strict requirement from our intelligence agencies. The FBI, the CIA, have the ability to go unfettered and ask the judge for the ability to surveil people, and the judge trusts that they're giving him the full information. And we saw abuses listed in that Horowitz report of the FISA process. Even more, Mr. Durham, is initiating and conducting his own criminal investigation. And what the Attorney General talked about this week, is that they know that there are people in those intelligence agencies who were spying on the Trump campaign.\n\t\t\n\t\t\"Imagine federal agencies  FBI, CIA  spying on the campaign of a candidate for President. Republican or Democrat, we should equally be alarmed that that happened. I hope it gets rooted out. I hope whoever did that and abused their power, goes to jail. But it happened and it's being investigated in a criminal way. But Horowitz himself pointed out where there were abuses of the FISA process. And you know what? That's coming back up to this Congress early next year for renewal. Parts of that program will come back up again. Important tools to combat terrorism, but tools that now have been identified to have been abused. We need to work together to clean that up so that doesn't happen again. But that happened, and it was used against the Trump campaign. I haven't heard the disdain and outrage from both sides, I'm surely outraged, our side is surely outraged, I would hope we're all outraged that that happened. But when we talk about those reports, again, if there were all of those things that the gentleman asserts in the Mueller investigation and ultimately report, I'm curious that not one of those things, not any mention of the Mueller report in these articles of impeachment that we'll be facing on the House Floor next week.\"On Democrats breaking House rules to block the minority from unveiling the truth about their sham impeachment:  \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tClickhereor on the image above to watch the clip.  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\"Just today, yet another rule has been broken. House Rule, Clause 2(j)1 of Rule 11 provides that once the demand is made for a minority day of hearing, minority members shall be entitled  shall means it has to happen  to call witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to the measure or matter during at least one day of hearings thereon. Well guess what? That didn't happen. We requested it multiple times and the rules that the gentleman said, the rules have been followed, the only problem is the rules been broken. Shall be entitled to a hearing and it's been denied. The Chairman denied it again today.\"\n\t\t\n\t\tOn Democrats' mission to impeach President Trump from day one, despite any evidence of an impeachable offense:  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tClickhereor on the image above to watch the clip.\n\t\t  \"Then you allege that [President Trump] conspired with Russia, but he didn't. Russia tried to interfere on Barack Obama and Joe Biden's watch. It was their watch that it happened. President Trump didn't have any involvement in that, and the Mueller report made that clear. But then you kept going on make assertion after assertion, just like in these two articles of impeachment and you come up with abuse of power. And to quote [Professor Jonathan Turley], one of the witnesses from last week, the only abuse of power is by this majority trying to remove a President from office for exercising his rights under the law.' A week after your request, your subpoena, a week after you got a letter from the Secretary of Defense himself and that's enough to impeach a President.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/pelosi-plays-politics-prescription-drug-prices", "Pelosi Plays Politics with Prescription Drug Prices", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after House Democrats voted down H.R. 19, The Lower Costs, More Cures Act, and instead passed H.R. 3, the Fewer Cures and More Government Price Control Act:    Today was a disaster for every American struggling to pay for their prescription medicines. Given the choice between a partisan drug plan that can never become law, and a bipartisan prescription drug bill that could be on the President's desk this week, radical Democrats chose Pelosi's partisan drug plan.    The American people want a bipartisan solution to this pressing problem, not another messaging bill from progressives. We can still forge a consensus on prescription drug costs if Democrats quit with their partisanship and come to their senses. I call on Speaker Pelosi to halt all House Floor action on impeachment until we pass a bipartisan, realistic plan to lower prescription drug costs for American seniors and families.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-cassidy-speaks-during-white-house_paid-leave-summit", "VIDEO: Cassidy Speaks During White House  Paid Leave Summit", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.12.19\n\t\t\t VIDEO: Cassidy Speaks During White House  Paid Leave Summit \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) participated in a paid family leave summit hosted by Ivanka Trump today at the White House. Cassidy joined U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) in a panel discussion on the path forward for passing paid leave legislation.\r\nIf we successfully implement these policies, there is some family that because of this policy their lives will be tangibly better. Not only will their lives be better, but their child's life will be better, said Dr. Cassidy. This is a wonderful thing that will pay off upwards from generation to generation. I'm not sure there are that many public policies we have that we can confidently say that of, but this is one of them.\r\nCassidy is the chairman of Senate Paid Family Leave Working Group and a leader on the issue in Congress. Earlier this month, Cassidy was joined by U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and U.S. Reps. Colin Allred (D-TX) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) in introducing the only bipartisan, bicameral paid leave legislation currently before Congress. The bill has received the support of the White House, and President Trump mentioned the bill during his speech at the summit.\r\nTo view Cassidy's remarks on YouTube, click here.\r\nTo download video of Cassidy's remarks, click here.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://abraham.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/abraham-urges-swift-passage-long-overdue-bipartisan-agreement-2020", "Abraham Urges Swift Passage of Long Overdue Bipartisan Agreement on 2020 Military Authorization", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Ralph Abraham", "A000374", "abraham.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON-Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, Louisiana's only member of the House Armed Services Committee, on Wednesday urged swift passage of a bipartisanagreement on the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). \"Republicans have fought since July, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi proposed the most partisan defense authorization bill in history, to remove its harmful poison pills and produce a bipartisan agreement that fully supports our military and their families,\"said Abraham.\"The final version gives our troops their largest pay raise in a decade, maintains a top line budget of $738 billion to rebuild our readiness, and contains a number of provisions whose aim is to improve Louisiana's various military installations including Camp Beauregard, Barksdale AFB, Fort Polk, and Belle Chasse. The annual NDAA represents a more than 50 year history of putting our troops first, and I'm proud of what we've been able to accomplish this year despite HouseDemocrats ignoring the needs of our men and women in uniform in order to pursue a yearlong campaign to impeach the President.\" Louisiana-specific provisions:\n The 2020NDAA authorizes $16.5 million in emergency funding for damages to Camp Beauregard from anOctober 2018 tornado.\n\tIt authorizes $25.26 million in funding for facilities at Belle Chasse.\n\tIt authorizes funding for modernization of B-52 aircraft housed at Barksdale AFB.\n\tIt improves housing for our service members at Fort Polk, Barksdale, and Belle Chasse.\n Military-wide provisions:\n The 2020 NDAA repealsthe harmfulwidows tax.\n\tIt provides a 3.1% pay raise for our troops, the largest increase in a decade.\n\tIt continues to improve our security and readiness with a top line budgetof $738 billion.\n\tIt creates the Space Force as the first new branch of the military since 1947.\n Harmful provisions removed:\n Their original version from July would have blocked the President from building the wall on our southern border.\n\tIt would have allowed prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to U.S. soil.\n\tIt would have hurt our nuclear modernization by banning low-yield nuclear weapons, which are being developed by our adversaries.\n \"This bill improves the safety and security of our nation by countering growing threats from adversaries like China and Russia while taking better care of the men and women in uniform who dedicate their lives to protecting it,\"Abraham said.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/11/higgins-votes-against-amnesty-illegal-immigrants/", "Higgins Votes Against Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Higgins Urges Federal Investigation Into Los Angeles Election Fraud Allegations, Calls for Funding Freeze\n\nLAFAYETTE, LA \u2014 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter today to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD...\n\nread more\n\nHiggins Urges Nation to \u2018Stand Back Up in the Glory of God\u2019 in House Floor Speech\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) spoke on the House Floor Tuesday evening, celebrating this year\u2019s...\n\nread more", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-votes-against-amnesty-illegal-immigrants", "Higgins Votes Against Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) voted against H.R. 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019. The bill would effectively grant amnesty and a path to citizenship to over one million currently illegal immigrants.\nMore specifically, the bill would:\n \nAllow illegal aliens who worked in agriculture for at least 180 days in the last two years, and their spouses and children, to apply for Certified Agricultural Worker (CAW) status. This status is valid in five-and-a-half year increments and can be renewed indefinitely.\n\tProvide CAW workers with a green card path to citizenship after an additional period of work in the agriculture industry.\n\tEnable illegal aliens to be eligible for CAW status even if they illegally re-entered the U.S. after a prior removal, committed immigration fraud, or have two serious misdemeanor convictions in certain cases.\n\tShield aliens who are eligible for CAW status from detention or removal while they apply, even if there are pending criminal charges or other negative factors that could cause the DHS Secretary to deny an application.\n \n  Congressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n \n\tWe certainly support America's farmers and ranchers. However, providing illegal immigrants and their families with amnesty is not the solution to workforce challenges. This bill would hurt America and weaken our justice system.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-congress-doesn-t-get-remove-president-just-because-they-don-t-him", "JOHNSON: CONGRESS DOESNT GET TO REMOVE A PRESIDENT JUST BECAUSE THEY DONT LIKE HIM", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, made the following remarks during the committee's impeachment markup Wednesday evening:\nHouse Democrats can't stand this president. They bristle at literally everything he does. But in our system, Congress doesn't get to remove a president just because they don't like him. They don't get to ignore the Constitution just because they abhor his policies, his staff members or his manner of speaking.\nWhen the rule of law in our system rules, we all do better, and it has to be followed, defended and preserved. I pray that we can still do that when this charade is over and after this dangerous precedent is set for the future of this blessed nationGod help us.\nTo watch Johnson's full remarks, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-and-kennedy-urge-governor-of-us-virgin-islands-to-pay-louisiana-businesses", "Cassidy and Kennedy Urge Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands to Pay Louisiana Businesses", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.11.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy and Kennedy Urge Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands to Pay Louisiana Businesses \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON U.S. SenatorsU.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and John Kennedy (R-LA )announced today a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) toexpedite the funding processfor the U.S. Virgin Islands to pay Louisiana contractors who provided immediate aid after hurricanes Irma and Maria.\r\nAfter two hurricanes devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017, Louisiana businesses were hired to provide relief and repairs to families who experienced home damage. Their work provided families with safe, clean homes immediately after the disaster.\r\nMany of these Louisiana contractors are still waiting on millions in past due payments for their work and have begun laying off Louisiana employees. Some of these companies have even filed for bankruptcy. Earlier this year,Cassidy andthe Louisiana delegationsent a letterto U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan requesting the continuation of work towards a solution to paying the contractors and the scheduling of a second strike team meeting to iron out bureaucratic hurdles that have impeded payment.\r\nNew FEMA funds are expected to be released in the coming weeks, but there is a growing concern that significant bureaucratic hurdles remain and will, again, delay payments to Louisiana businesses.\r\nLouisiana contractors rushed to help the U.S. Virgin Islands recover in the aftermath of Irma and Maria. Two years later, they have not been paid,said Dr. Cassidy.This funding is intended for Louisiana contractors. Gov. Bryan making these payments is vital for these firms to remain open and able to aid in future disasters.\r\nLouisiana businesses have waited long enough and are dying on the vine as a result of all of this,said Sen. Kennedy. Now it's up to Gov. Bryan to ensure that this funding is directed towards Louisiana contractors who badly need these funds to pay their workers before Christmas and keep their doors open. We've left these contractors in the lurch for far too long, and enough is enough. I'm optimistic that Gov. Bryan is aware of our dire situation and will remove any remaining obstacles in the coming days.\r\n\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-r-la-about-15-of-the-way-through-the-fisa-report-it-made-me-want-to-heave", "Sen. Kennedy (R-La.): About 15% Of The Way Through  The FISA Report, It Made Me Want To Heave", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-r-la-files-legislation-to-continue-making-rail-shipments-affordable-and-efficient", "Sen. Kennedy (R-La.) Files Legislation To Continue Making Rail Shipments Affordable And Efficient", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-r-la-we-will-offer-both-sides-due-process-in-the-senate", "Sen. Kennedy (R-La.): We Will Offer Both Sides Due Process  In The Senate", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sens-kennedy-and-cassidy-urge-governor-of-u-s-virgin-islands-to-pay-louisiana-businesses", "Sens. Kennedy and Cassidy Urge Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands to Pay Louisiana Businesses", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://abraham.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/abraham-welcomes-progress-usmca-condemns-partisan-obstruction", "Abraham Welcomes Progress on USMCA, Condemns Partisan Obstruction", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Ralph Abraham", "A000374", "abraham.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON-Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, released the following statement after anagreement was announced which will allow the USMCA trade agreement to be brought before the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration. \"I'm glad to hear Speaker Pelosi has finally decided to bring USMCA up for a vote after delaying it for more than a year. President Trump and Republicans worked tirelessly on this agreement for the American people which is expected to add $68 billion and 176,000 jobs to the U.S. economy,\"said Abraham.\"Agriculture exports are expected to increase by more than $2 billion annually  that's $2 billionfor our farmers and ranchers we can never get back. It's a shame the benefits of this historic agreement have been delayed by petty politics and partisan animosity.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/10/higgins-issues-statement-articles-impeachment/", "Higgins Issues Statement on Articles of Impeachment", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Higgins Urges Federal Investigation Into Los Angeles Election Fraud Allegations, Calls for Funding Freeze\n\nLAFAYETTE, LA \u2014 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter today to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD...\n\nread more\n\nHiggins Urges Nation to \u2018Stand Back Up in the Glory of God\u2019 in House Floor Speech\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) spoke on the House Floor Tuesday evening, celebrating this year\u2019s...\n\nread more", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-issues-statement-articles-impeachment", "Higgins Issues Statement on Articles of Impeachment", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after the House Judiciary Committee released draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.\n \n\tThese articles of impeachment are no surprise. Democrats are unhinged. Triggered. They've been charging toward impeachment since President Trump was first elected. This was an investigation in search of a crime. The outcome was predetermined long ago. Democrats are moving forward in the absence of any direct evidence, driven by deep hatred for President Trump. Have faith. Our Republic shall prevail. This attack from within, this effort to overturn the 2016 election... will be soundly defeated. The American people will remember what the Socialist Democrats have done.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-pays-tribute-dr-co-simpkins-introduces-legislation-his-honor", "JOHNSON PAYS TRIBUTE TO DR. C.O. SIMPKINS, INTRODUCES LEGISLATION IN HIS HONOR", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today introduced legislation designating a United States Post Office in Mansfield, La., to Dr. C.O. Simpkins Sr. to honor his life and service as a Louisiana veteran and legendary civil rights activist. Dr. Simpkins passed away Wednesday evening.\nJohnson's legislation is cosponsored by U.S. Representatives Steve Scalise (LA-01), Cedric Richmond (LA-02), Clay Higgins (LA-03), Ralph Abraham (LA-05) and Garret Graves (LA-06).\nKelly and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Dr. C.O. Simpkins, a man who fought valiantly for civil rights alongside many of America's heroes, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said Johnson. While it is only a small symbol of our area's appreciation, I am honored to have my fellow colleagues in the Louisiana congressional delegation join me in introducing legislation that designates a U.S. Post Office in Mansfield, Louisiana, to Dr. Simpkins and his family. We offer our prayers and sincerest condolences to them all. Dr. Simpkins' profound contributions will never be forgotten.\nJohnson also delivered a speech on the House floor today honoring the life and service of Dr. Simpkins. To watch Johnson's full remarks, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-statement-house-democrats-articles-impeachment", "JOHNSON STATEMENT ON HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after House Democrats introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump:\nAs Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler release their articles of impeachment, there is less support for impeachment today among the American people  and even among House Democrats  than there was when their sham proceedings began.\nRadical Democrats have vowed and voted to impeach President Donald Trump since the day of his election, and now they are pulling the trigger on what was described in our House Judiciary Committee by one of the expert witnesses as 'the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president.'\n\"The founders of this country feared a single-party impeachment because it would bitterly, and perhaps irreparably, divide our nation. Nancy Pelosi and her radical lieutenants simply don't care. This will backfire on them politically, but it will do serious harm to America in the process.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-statement-usmca-approval", "JOHNSON STATEMENT ON USMCA APPROVAL", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) released the following statement in response to President Trump's announcement that he has reached a deal with Speaker Pelosi to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA):\n  President Trump has never delivered a better deal for America's workers and Louisiana's economy than the USMCA. While I'm disappointed Democrats needlessly held it up for more than a year, I'm proud to have helped get the USMCA across the finish line so it can finally bring more jobs, higher wages and greater opportunities to hardworking Louisianians.\nLouisiana heavily relies upon a vibrant trading relationship with Canada and Mexico. Last year alone, our state exported $12.7 billion in goods to these nations. The USMCA builds upon this success by expanding market access and modernizing our trading relationship with Canada and Mexico in a way that is favorable to Louisiana businesses and workers.  \n\t  \n\tIt's a shame House Democrats have used the vital reforms provided by the USMCA as a political prop in their larger impeachment charade. Americans' success should never be used as leverage for the benefit of the Democrat majority's political agenda.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/farce", "This is a Farce", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel'sThe Ingraham Anglelast night to discuss Speaker Pelosi's embarrassing rush to impeach President Trump because Democrats' failing majority cannot compete with the unparalleled results the President has accomplished for our country. Whip Scalise blasted House Democrats for their complete disregard of facts or the truth as they march towards impeachmentwith no new information, and no evidence that President Trump committed impeachable offenses.  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\nOn Speaker Pelosi's rush towards impeachment in an attempt to protect Democrats' failing majority:\nWhen a witness literally gets up from the witness table, runs over to the dais, and then asks another witness questions, people are just looking  they're not looking, they're turning this off  they're tuning this out, because I think they realize this is all about Nancy Pelosi holding on to power. They know that Donald Trump's done a great job  260,000 new jobs created last month. [Democrats] don't want this President to get reelected, they can't beat him on the merits, and so they've got to go down the road of impeachment and that's what this is about, it's a farce, it's an embarrassment what they've been doing.\n\t  On Chairman Adam Schiff's abuse of power throughout Democrats' impeachment investigation:\nHiding the whistleblower after saying he was going to bring the whistleblower. You know, going back to the Mueller investigation, 'more than circumstantial evidence' he said he had, he never had any because there wasn't any. Really, if you look at what happened last week, you want to talk about something Laura, it's an abuse of power. We found out later [Adam Schiff] was spying on members of the press, Members of Congress, we don't know who else. I've heard reports that there are up to 3,500 pages of telephone records that Adam Schiff is sitting on, and he only selectively released it against his political opponents. Against Devin Nunes, against a conservative reporter. Why isn't the press outraged, by the way, that he's spying on members of the press? Their sources, all of their private information is at risk. The FISA Court itself is at risk when you talk about the abuses of power we saw from the FBI.  \n\t  On Democrats' mission to impeach President Trump from day one, despite any evidence of an impeachable offense:  \n\t  [The lead author of the Articles of Impeachment, Rep. Al Green] also said you don't need an impeachable offense to impeach a President. And, most importantly, he said 'if we don't impeach President Trump, he'll get reelected.' It's not about any impeachable offenses, it's about the fact they're scared he'll get reelected because their field is so weak and President Trump has done such a great job.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-republicans-are-focused-fighting-hard-american-families", "House Republicans Are Focused on Fighting Hard for American Families", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)joined Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.), Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), Congressman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY) at today's leadership press stakeout to discuss the official agreement on USMCA, the bipartisan counterproposal to Speaker Pelosi's partisan drug pricing plan, and House Democrats' release of articles of impeachment against President Trump despite any evidence of wrongdoing. Whip Scalise emphasized the stark contrast between House Republicans who have consistently been focused on working alongside President Trump to deliver real wins for hardworking American familiescompared to Speaker Pelosi and her failed Democrat majority who are abusing their power to undermine President Trump and American voters.\n  Click here or on the image above to view the remarks.\n  Full remarks: On Pelosi finally agreeing to bring USMCA to the Floor, after nearly a year of delays: \"There's a lot we're working on. As House Republicans, we're working to fight for American families to help improve their lives, help lower drug costs, help address some of the problems that they're confronting. And it's an unfortunate, very disappointing contrast with what you're seeing Speaker Pelosi do with her majority. And let's start first with USMCA, because this is something that we've been working on since President Trump took office, when he said that he would make NAFTA better for American families, that he would actually go and negotiate a better trade deal with Mexico and Canada to open up more opportunities. Right now, a lot of products that we make in America, we can't sell in Canada, we can't sell in Mexico, and under the USMCA, we open those doors up and we create more jobs. Over 160,000 more jobs for American workers. Higher wages for American workers, and the ability to sell our products.\n\t\n\t\"But even more than that, what it does is sends a message to the rest of the world. There are a lot of friends of ours around the world. You see it with Japan, you see it with the United Kingdom, so many other countries want to have better trade relationships with the United States. But until USMCA can get done, they don't believe that they can actually go and negotiate a deal with America until they see that we can actually get the agreement with our neighbors from the North and the South put into law.\n\t\n\t\"So, the fact that we're going to finally get a vote on USMCA is a big win for those American workers. But also, then it sends a message to China, and everybody knows, not just in America, but all of our friends around the world that know that China doesn't play by the same rules and that they have to come into line with the rest of the world. And they haven't needed to because nobody stood up to them until President Trump finally stood up for America, but also for our allies all around the world by saying China is going to have to play by those same rules. And getting USMCA passed also sends that message to China, that if they want to be a part of the greatest and hottest economy in the world, which is the United States economy, they're going to have to play by those rules too.\n\t\n\t\"So, getting USMCA moved through has been a top priority of ours. I set up a Whip team just specifically for USMCA. This morning, Chairman Brady and myself hosted a call with Ambassador Lighthizer where he laid out those details and we talked about how important it is for American workers, for the President, to get this done, and hopefully it gets done quickly.\" On Pelosi refusing to bring a bipartisan drug pricing bill to the Floor: \"It should have done a long time ago, but again, as we've seen with Speaker Pelosi, instead of using her majority to focus on things like lowering drug prices  which [Republicans] have got a great bill, H.R. 19, that would lower drug prices, that only includes bipartisan legislation  not a partisan approach, something that can't get signed into law  but ideas that actually bring Republicans and Democrats together.\n\t\n\t\"We've worked on this incredibly hard for months, to get an agreement between Republicans and Democrats to lower drug prices, something that can get signed into law by the President. Something that would actually work for families. Families that expect Congress to work for them, families that are struggling with the high cost of drug prices, and they know that there's a better approach and we bring those approaches in H.R. 19, a really important piece of legislation that I hope Speaker Pelosi would bring to the Floor instead of the partisan approaches that she's been taking. And finally, when you look at what she really has done with this majority. That is from day one, when she became Speaker, she made it very clear that the most radical elements of her base who didn't want to work with this President, but they wanted to overturn the results of the 2016 election, and so they were committed to impeaching him, regardless of the facts. That's been going on from day one that Speaker Pelosi took that gavel, and today, unfortunately, she bowed down to the most radical elements of her base instead of standing up to them and saying that she was going to work for the American people.\" On Democrats' bringing baseless impeachment articles to the Floor: \"By bringing articles of impeachment, after years of investigations, with the Mueller investigation being the linchpin, what they thought was going to be the thing that delivered something to impeach the President on, and it didn't. There was no violation. The only collusion that happened where Russia tried to interfere with our election, was when Barack Obama was President. That's when Russia tried to interfere with our election. Why Barack Obama and Joe Biden aren't being asked why they didn't stand up to Russia and stop them from interfering in our election is a really good question that's not being asked. \"But President Trump has stood up to Russia on so many accounts. President Trump stood up to Russia with our ally Ukraine, and still is standing with Ukraine against Russia. When he sold the Javelin missiles that President's Zelensky, on that now infamous call, thanked President Trump for doing. Giving Ukraine the tools that they need to stand up against Russia. All the times that the Democrats brought witness after witness that were supposed to be the star witness, they were asked by our Members point blank, 'can you name an impeachable offense?' Not one. 'Can you name any kind of bribery?' Not one. Yet they still go forward with impeachment, not because there's evidence  which is what the constitutional standard should be  but because they're afraid he will get reelected. And time after time, you've heard Democrats in this House say exactly that. They're not impeaching the President because they can list an impeachable offense, they're impeaching him because they're afraid he will get reelected. That's not why you have the power of impeachment, that's the abuse of power.\" On House Democrats' abuse of power during this sham impeachment process: \"Speaker Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and her counterparts have been abusing the power of impeachment because they're afraid Donald Trump will get reelected on his own. The American people should be the ones that decide who the President is. Not Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff, because they disagree with the results of the 2016 election. It's going to be a low mark in Congress when you see what they've done to the standard of impeachment. Turning it instead of what it's always been, is a unique power of Congress to hold the President accountable if they violate the law, and instead now using it against a President because they're afraid he will get reelected on his own. That's something that she's ultimately going to have to account for.\n\t\n\t\"Again, you've seen a lot of her own colleagues trying to find an offramp, trying to say let's get away from impeachment, but she couldn't stand up to the most radical elements of her conference. And make no mistake, they wouldn't be talking about this if they felt confident in their field of candidates. More and more Democrats are talking about getting in the race for President to this day. But ultimately, they ought to trust the American people with the election and not still try to reverse the results of the last election. That's what impeachment was supposed to be for, but not an impeachable offense and keep in mind, Zelensky never did the investigation and got the money. Zelensky himself said there was no pressure applied and that's the basis for them impeaching a President.\n\t\n\t\"I think people know what's really going on here, they know this is all about politics, and they've seen the abuse of power. Last week, Adam Schiff, spying on members of the press. Subpoenaing phone records of journalists, we don't know how many. I asked [Majority Leader Steny Hoyer] at the colloquy last week, can you tell me how many journalists Adam Schiff was spying on? He couldn't answer that. How many Members of Congress is he spying on, or other citizens across this country? And they can't even answer a basic question like that. We all should be alarmed at how they've abused their power with this majority in Congress. And it's a shame, because there's a lot more we should be doing that families across this country are counting on us to do  like lower drug prices. At least, as House Republicans, we're going to stay focused on fighting hard for those families across America who are counting on us and working with President Trump to go deliver more wins for American workers in the American economy.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-statement-articles-impeachment", "Scalise Statement on Articles of Impeachment", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Trump:\nWashington Democrats have wanted to impeach President Trump since before he even took office. Despite years of witch hunts and investigations, Democrats have not produced a single piece of evidence that President Trump engaged in bribery, extortion, or any other high crimes or misdemeanors. And yet, they just unveiled two articles to impeach the president.\nSpeaker Pelosi is bowing to the demands of the most radical elements of her base who want to reverse the results of the 2016 election, and deny the American people the right to determine who is president next year at the ballot box.\nWhat is just as disappointing as this abuse of power by Speaker Pelosi, is the long list of important things that are not getting done for hard-working families by this Congress, like legislation to lower drug prices, secure our border, or provide our men and women in uniform the tools they need to safely train and defend our nation.\nThis is a shameful day in the House of Representatives.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalises-whip-group-ready-get-usmca-over-finish-line", "Scalise's Whip Group Ready to Get USMCA Over Finish Line", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement upon news of an official agreement on USMCA:\nPassing the United StatesMexicoCanada Agreement(USMCA) trade deal will be a major boost for our economy, and will provide more than 160,000 new jobs, which is a huge win for American workers. For months, House Republicans pushed vigorously for a final deal on USMCA while Speaker Pelosi wasted time and resources on her sham impeachment inquiry.\nI predict an overwhelming vote for this agreement, and my USMCA Whip Team is engaged and ready to push this important trade agreement over the finish line as soon as it is scheduled for the House Floor. Republican support for President Trump's hard-negotiated trade deal will be strong. Every day we delay this vote only costs us more jobs, better ability to sell American products into neighboring countries, and a stronger economy.\nPresident Trump, in particular, deserves tremendous credit for his dedication to delivering results for American families.U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer also deserves credit for his relentless determination and patience to get USMCA done.\n\"I also want to thank Rep. Kevin Brady, Republican leader of the House Ways and Means Committee, for his hard work in negotiating important details and answering all the questions our colleagues had about this historic agreement.\n\"Once USMCA is ratified, we can continue working to get better trade deals with other friends around the world who have already recognized that their economies will also benefit if they treat America more fairly in our outdated trade deals.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-issues-statement-on-impeachment-announcement", "Cassidy Issues Statement on Impeachment Announcement", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.10.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy Issues Statement on Impeachment Announcement \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statement in response to the House of Representatives bringing articles of impeachment against President Trump.\r\nHouse Democratic leadership turned impeachment into a series of partisan hearings searching for a crime that changed by the day. The Senate will offer President Trump a fair process, and I look forward to fairly judging the facts, said Dr. Cassidy.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-issues-statement-on-usmca-deal", "Cassidy Issues Statement on USMCA Deal", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.10.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy Issues Statement on USMCA Deal \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) released the following statement regarding news that House Democrats and the White House have reached a deal on a new trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada, known as the United States, Mexico, Canada Agreement (USMCA).\r\nThe USMCA will directly benefit Louisiana's farmers and manufacturers, allowing them to build on the success of our national economy. I look forward to this legislation passing, said Dr. Cassidy.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-jones-moran-shaheen-introduce-bill-to-allow-health-savings-accounts-to-be-spent-on-direct-primary-care", "Cassidy, Jones, Moran, Shaheen Introduce Bill to Allow Health Savings Accounts to Be Spent on Direct Primary Care", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.10.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Jones, Moran, Shaheen Introduce Bill to Allow Health Savings Accounts to Be Spent on Direct Primary Care \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Doug Jones (D-AL), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today introduced bipartisan legislation to lower the cost of health care and expand patients' access to their primary care providers.\r\nThe Direct Primary Care (DPC) model encourages patients to develop personal relationships with their primary care physician, including extending access to care beyond office visits and business hours and through telemedicine. It focuses on prevention and primary care, relying less on specialist and hospital referrals. It is a growing model used by more than 1,000 practices across 48 states and the District of Columbia.\r\nDPC models replace copays and deductibles with flat, affordable monthly fees. Current law makes DPC incompatible with health savings accounts (HSAs) paired with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs).\r\nThe senators' bill, the Primary Care Enhancement Act, clarifies federal law to state DPC is eligible for HSA contributions and that pre-tax HSA funds may be used to pay DPC fees.\r\nHealth savings accounts anddirectprimarycareare some of the best ways to give patients the power and let them take back control of their family's healthcaredecisions, said Dr. Cassidy. This law builds on the administration's action and allows a patient to use their money for the doctor they want.\r\nWe need to do everything we can to improve access to quality, affordable health care. Direct Primary Care models are growing in Alabama and across the country as a way to improve health outcomes and lower health care costs for families. This bill will help families save money on health care by clarifying that patients can use their Health Savings Accounts to pay for direct primary care fees, said Senator Jones.\r\nThe Primary Care Enhancement Act will improve choice for patients and will give individuals and families the option to choose how to spend their healthcare savings,said Senator Moran.Health savings accounts can be utilized on a wider scale, and this bill is a step in the right direction towards putting patients in charge of their own healthcare. As direct primary care options continue to grow, it is important to ensure these services are an allowable expense for HSAs.\r\nCongress needs to work across the aisle to expand access to affordable, quality health care. This bill is a reflection of that effort and demonstrates the common ground we share and the progress we can make by working together,said Senator Shaheen. The Primary Care Enhancement Act expands access to high quality primary care by allowing individuals to enroll in Direct Primary Care Arrangements in addition to comprehensive health plans, without having to forfeit eligibility for making Health Savings Account contributions. This is common sense, bipartisan legislation to improve health care and I urge Leader McConnell to hold a vote on this bill as soon as possible.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-lake-charles-citgo-employee-released-from-venezuelan-prison", "Cassidy: Lake Charles Citgo Employee Released from Venezuelan Prison", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.10.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy: Lake Charles Citgo Employee Released from Venezuelan Prison \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today announced that six Americans imprisoned in Venezuela, known as the Citgo 6, have been released from prison and entered into house arrest. Among those released is Lake Charles resident Tomeu Vadell.\r\nWe want him back in the United States. We want him back with his family, but I'm glad for this first step. We'll celebrate when we finish this story, said. Dr. Cassidy.\r\nCassidy has been actively involved in trying to free Vadell. Since the group's arrest in November 2017, Cassidy has been in regular contact with the Vadell family, the State Department, and other intermediaries working on a solution and a way to bring them home.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://abraham.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/abraham-supports-helping-able-bodied-snap-recipients-re-enter-workforce", "Abraham Supports Helping Able-bodied SNAP Recipients Re-enter Workforce", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Ralph Abraham", "A000374", "abraham.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON -Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, released the following statementafter the USDA announced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)to encourage able-bodied adults between ages18 and 49 without dependents to re-enter the workforce.\n\"Thanks to President Trump's pro-growth policies like deregulation and tax cuts, the American economy is booming and providing greater opportunity than has been seen in generations.The national unemployment rate has fallen to 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years, and unemployment amongAfrican-Americans and Hispanics is the lowest in recorded history,\" said Abraham.\"Despite this great news, 37 million people are still receiving SNAP assistance, even while an estimated seven million jobs go unfilled. By reinstatingSNAP rules as they were intended,able-bodied adults with no dependents will be required toparticipate in 20 hours per week of work, job training, or even volunteering to helpthem re-enter the workforce. Those with dependents or disabilities will be unaffected by this change andareas withunemployment higher than 6% will remain eligible for a waiver from therequirements.\"\n\"Shortly after taking office, President Obama relaxed work requirements for SNAP recipients, more than doubling the number of able-bodied adults receiving assistance in less than two years,\" Abraham continued. \"By reinstating these requirements, the Trump administration has restored a crucial part of the bipartisan Gingrich-Clinton welfare reform of 1996.\"\n\"This rule change will help tomove more Americans from poverty to prosperity while expanding the labor force and ensuring the best possible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.\"\nTo read the USDA's announcement, click here.\nTo read the USDA's fact sheet, click here.\nRep. Abraham has been a member of the House Committee on Agriculture since 2015.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/09/higgins-bill-improve-dhs-opioid-detection-capabilities-passes-house/", "Higgins\u2019 Bill to Improve DHS\u2019 Opioid Detection Capabilities Passes House", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The U.S. House of Representatives today passed Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Clay Higgins\u2019 (R-LA) H.R. 4761, the DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2019, in a 393 \u2013 1 vote.\n\nThe bill requires the Commissioner of CBP to implement a strategy ensuring CBP chemical screening devices are able to identify narcotics in an operational environment with purity levels of 10% or less. According to the 2018 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Drug Threat Assessment, fentanyl seized at the southwest border tends to be less than 10% pure. These changes would fill the detection capability gap that currently exists. The bill also requires DHS to implement a plan for the long-term development of a centralized spectral database for chemical screening devices, allowing DHS to push out data to the field as new drug analogs or spectra are identified.\n\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cThe DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act helps CBP law enforcement officers carry out their mission and stop the illegal flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Our legislation ensures that DHS has the necessary technologies to detect synthetic opioids and combat evolving smuggling methods. This is a bipartisan effort, and I\u2019m uplifted to see it pass with broad support.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/09/higgins-ig-report-confirms-obama-era-fbi-abused-fisa-process/", "Higgins: IG Report Confirms Obama-Era FBI Abused the FISA Process", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Justice Department\u2019s Inspector General today released a report on the review of four FISA applications and the origins of the FBI investigation into President Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign.\n\nIn a statement issued today, Attorney General William P. Barr noted:\n\n\u201cThe Inspector General\u2019s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump\u2019s administration. In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General\u2019s report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.\u201d\n\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cThe Inspector General\u2019s report confirms that the Obama-era FBI abused the FISA process to target and spy on President Trump\u2019s 2016 election campaign. We should all be alarmed at the abuse of authority and manipulation of probable cause to obtain FISA warrants and wrongfully target American citizens. This is a poor reflection on the standards of evidence expected from one of our nation\u2019s most well-established law enforcement organizations.\n\n\u201cThe IG report is an objective look at facts surrounding misuse of the FISA process. The ensuing criminal investigation will further address the motives and intent of bad actors within the Obama-era FBI. Those responsible should be held to account. The watchers should note that the American people are watching. We, the People, are paying attention and we will not tolerate purposeful, targeted violation of our 4th Amendment protections.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-bill-improve-dhs-opioid-detection-capabilities-passes-house", "Higgins Bill to Improve DHS' Opioid Detection Capabilities Passes House", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today passed Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Clay Higgins' (R-LA) H.R. 4761, the DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2019, in a 393 - 1 vote.  \n\t  \n\tThe bill requires the Commissioner of CBP to implement a strategy ensuring CBP chemical screening devices are able to identify narcotics in an operational environment with purity levels of 10% or less. According to the 2018 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Drug Threat Assessment, fentanyl seized at the southwest border tends to be less than 10% pure. These changes would fill the detection capability gap that currently exists. The bill also requires DHS to implement a plan for the long-term development of a centralized spectral database for chemical screening devices, allowing DHS to push out data to the field as new drug analogs or spectra are identified.  \n\t  Congressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n \n\tThe DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act helps CBP law enforcement officers carry out their mission and stop the illegal flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Our legislation ensures that DHS has the necessary technologies to detect synthetic opioids and combat evolving smuggling methods. This is a bipartisan effort, and I'm uplifted to see it pass with broad support.\n \n  View a summary ofthe DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2019 here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-ig-report-confirms-obama-era-fbi-abused-fisa-process", "Higgins: IG Report Confirms Obama-Era FBI Abused the FISA Process", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  The Justice Department's Inspector General today released a report on the review of four FISA applications and the origins of the FBI investigation into President Trump's 2016 campaign.\nIn a statement issued today, Attorney General William P. Barr noted:\nThe Inspector General's report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump's administration. In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General's report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.    Congressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n \n\tThe Inspector General's report confirms that the Obama-era FBI abused the FISA process to target and spy on President Trump's 2016 election campaign. We should all be alarmed at the abuse of authority and manipulation of probable cause to obtain FISA warrants and wrongfully target American citizens. This is a poor reflection on the standards of evidence expected from one of our nation's most well-established law enforcement organizations.The IG report is an objective look at facts surrounding misuse of the FISA process. The ensuing criminal investigation will further address the motives and intent of bad actors within the Obama-era FBI. Those responsible should be held to account. The watchers should note that the American people are watching. We, the People, are paying attention and we will not tolerate purposeful, targeted violation of our 4th Amendment protections.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/democrats-endless-political-mission", "Democrats' Endless Political Mission", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends to discuss House Democrats' political mission to impeach President Trump since day one because they can't stand the fact that he was elected President. Whip Scalise pointed out over 100 Democrats for voting to impeach President Trump before the phone call with Ukraine even took place. Their entire inquiry is a political sham and the American people deserve better.\n\t\n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\nOn Democrats' mission to impeach President Trump since day one:\n\"[Democrats] were set out from day one to impeach the President. You had over 100 Members of Congress vote to impeach the President before there was even a whistleblower report. [Democrats] made it clear when they got the majority, they were going to use it not to help American families.\"\n\t\n\t[...]\n\t\n\t\"I think [Democrats] are questioning the voters of this country, it's an insult to the voters of this country who should be the ones to decide whose President next year, when they would rather take that option away because they think the President's going to get elected. It's not why you impeach a President, because you disagree with his policies or because he won an election when you would wish you would have won the election.\"  \n\t  On Chairman Schiff's apparent abuse of power:  \n\t  \"It's a real concern, I mean the fact that Adam Schiff has been spying on members of the press, on Members of Congress, on the President's own attorney. Who else is Adam Schiff spying on, and where are the rest of these phone records? Literally, where he subpoenaed phone records of people and he released selectively some of those reports. We don't know all of what he has, he only selectively went after people who he has political disagreements with.\"\n\t\n\t[...]\n\"Adam Schiff has those sources now, because again, he went after using his subpoena powers, this is why it's a potential abuse of power, he used his subpoena powers to go and start getting phone records of people. We don't know who all the people are that he got phone records of. We do know some people in the press, some Members of Congress, are people who he had been spying on. The press ought to be outraged about this, by the way, because it does really go after their ability to do their job because you get sources, anonymous sources sometimes, [Adam Schiff] now has their phone records. He knows who's calling some journalists. Who are the other people that he's spying on right now, why doesn't he release all of those records? Not selectively to try to hurt his political opponents. It's not why you have that power of subpoena.\"  \n\t  On the failure of the Democrat majority to accomplish results for the American people:  \n\t  \"[Nancy Pelosi] has been on this rush for impeachment from day one and she wants to do this to appease her political base. The radical left has wanted to impeach the President from day one. She knows politically it's a bad thing for them to be doing.\"\n\t\n\t[]\n\t\n\t\"I think she's beholden to the far left and the AOC's of the world. AOC tweeted out, just days before [Speaker Pelosi] announced impeachment, AOC tweeted out that it's the Democrats in Congress, not Republicans or the President, who are the threat because they're not going after him. Literally days later, [Speaker Pelosi] announces she's going to impeach the President. That's all out there. The bottom line is, people wish we were focusing on real things that matter to them, like lowering drug prices. A package of bills came out of the [House Energy and Commerce Committee] unanimously. Every Republican, every Democrat voted to lower drug prices. Pelosi won't bring that package of bills to the [House Floor], because of impeachment. USMCA, more jobs and better trade relations, but she won't do that because of impeachment.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/only-bipartisan-prescription-drug-bill-can-become-law", "Only a Bipartisan Prescription Drug Bill Can Become Law", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after House Republican committee leaders introduced H.R. 19, The Lower Costs, More Cures Act, a bipartisan counterproposal to Speaker Pelosi's partisan drug pricing plan:\nLowering prescription drug prices is a top priority for American families. While Republicans worked with Democrats to pass bipartisan prescription drug pricing bills unanimously out of committee, Speaker Pelosi has ignored this important work and will instead bring a partisan, radical, Democrat-only bill to the House floor.\nAmericans deserve better. Speaker Pelosi's partisan plan attempts to dictate drug prices, but would prevent lifesaving cures from ever being developed or coming to market. The Council of Economic Advisers estimates that Speaker Pelosi's partisan plan would prevent as many as 100 new cures from coming to market and lower Americans' life expectancy by four months.\nOnly one of these bills has the potential to become law. While Speaker Pelosi's partisan plan is dead on arrival in the Senate and won't be signed by President Trump, H.R. 19 could be on President Trump's desk today. Speaker Pelosi must come to her senses. I am calling on her to bring H.R. 19 to the House floor for a vote this week. Americans need a bipartisan solution to prescription drug prices, not another doomed proposal from the Democrats.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-republican-warnings-about-fisa-court-abuses-proven-true", "Scalise: Republican warnings about FISA court abuses proven true", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report on the origins of the FBI investigation into President Trump's 2016 election campaign:\nRepublican warnings about abuses of the FISA court process have been proven true by IG Horowitz's report. Obama administration officials clearly abused their power to help trigger an investigation into President Trump's election campaign. In any other instance, an administration using the weight of the federal government to spy on the campaign of a political rival would be a national scandal. But, as we've seen for the past four years, Washington Democrats are willing to break any rule, any precedent, or twist any facts to prevent the American people from deciding who the president is because they're afraid President Trump will win re-election. \nAs we await the criminal investigation being conducted by US Attorney John Durham, this report is just the first step in ensuring justice is servedand unelected bureaucrats are held accountable when they abuse their power.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy_hassan-introduce-bill-to-lower-costs-for-medicare-patients", "Cassidy , Hassan Introduce Bill to Lower Costs for Medicare Patients", "2019-12-09", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.09.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy , Hassan Introduce Bill to Lower Costs for Medicare Patients \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) today introduced legislation to lower health care costs and strengthen patient choice in their treatment plans.\r\nThe bill would launch a shared patient savings program with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to drive down insurance costs for patients under Medicare Part D. The program would reward patients and provide them with a portion of the financial savingsif they choose to switch to a less expensive medicine that maintains the same health benefits as a more expensive medicine.\r\nIf patients with insurance choose a better medicine with a better price, they should enjoy a part of the savings,said Dr. Cassidy.This encourages competition, lowers the cost of health care, and puts patients in control.\r\nThis is a win-win bill: Medicare spends less money on prescription drugs, and patients receive rewards for switching to a doctor-approved, lower cost drug, said Senator Hassan. Given the exorbitant cost of prescription drugs along with an increasingly aging population, I'm glad to be working across the aisle on commonsense measures like this to support our seniors while saving taxpayer dollars.\r\nIf all the financial savings go to the insurance plan, there is little incentive for Medicare Part D patients toswitch to amore cost effective drugwith the same health benefits. By empowering patients to make these smart decisions, premiums can be loweredas competition is leveraged to lower drug prices and health care expenditures.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-hassan-bennet-statement-on-senate-house-agreement-on-legislation-to-lower-health-care-costs-stop-surprise-medical-bills", "Cassidy, Hassan, Bennet Statement on Senate, House Agreement on Legislation to Lower Health Care Costs, Stop Surprise Medical Bills", "2019-12-08", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.08.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Hassan, Bennet Statement on Senate, House Agreement on Legislation to Lower Health Care Costs, Stop Surprise Medical Bills \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTONU.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) released a joint statement following the announcement of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on legislation to lower health care costs announced today by the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee. The agreement will include several health care provisions championed by Cassidy, Hassan and Bennet, including a solution to stop patients from receiving surprise bills for medical services not paid by their insurance.\r\nIn their release announcing the bipartisan and bicameral agreement, HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and House E&C Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) commended Cassidy and Hassan for their leadership and dedicated work in developing the solution that ends the harmful practice of surprise medical billing.\r\nWe appreciate committee leadership for their work to progress efforts to end the practice of surprise medical billing, including by adding a simple arbitration safety valve to help providers and plans resolve these billing disputes, said Senators Cassidy, Hassan and Bennet. As our discussions continue around the final details, we are encouraged that we're one step closer to giving patients these vital protections. Patients have waited long enough, and we remain hopeful that we can get this done by the end of the year.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://garretgraves.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/graves-announces-28-million-grant-galvez-primary-school", "Graves announces $2.8 million grant to Galvez Primary School", "2019-12-06", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Garret Graves", "G000577", "garretgraves.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "This is the second announcement of FEMA grants to schools in the 6th Congressional District this week.\nCongressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a federal grant totaling $2,806,758.53 to the Ascension Parish School Board for Galvez Primary School for the replacement of contents damaged in the 2016 flood.\nThis is the second announcement of FEMA grants to schools in the 6th Congressional District this week. \nGalvez was hit hard in the 2016 Flood. These important funds are long overdue, and we're expecting similar progress for Livingston schools, hopefully very soon. For many families, having their school flood in addition to their homes was tragic. I am proud to have helped secure these FEMA grants to help our schools rebuild, Graves said.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://garretgraves.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/parish-will-have-shot-portion-12-billion-through-louisiana-watershed", "Parish will have shot at portion $1.2 billion through Louisiana Watershed Initiative", "2019-12-06", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Garret Graves", "G000577", "garretgraves.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "It would appear that the statement continually uttered by Congressman Garret Graves, that 'disaster recovery is six times more expensive than disaster prevention,' has hit the right ears.\n\n\n\tPresident Donald Trump signed into law a $28 billion block grant through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).\n\n\n\tWhile Graves is not pleased with the amount of time it took to get the money out, when compared to the disaster, the state of Louisiana will receive $1.21 billion of that total outlay. The federal government required an Action Plan, presented by the recently formed Louisiana Watershed Initiative (LWI) as to how they intended to distribute the funds.\n\n\n\n\tThe LWI will focus on four specific areas:\n\n\n\t Watershed projects and programs - $570,666,243 (47%)\n\t\tState projects and programs - $327,757,590 (27%)\n\t\tWatershed monitoring, mapping, and modeling - $145,670,040 (12%)\n\t\tWatershed policy, planning, and local capacity assistance - $24,278,340 (2%)\n\t\tNon-federal cost share assistance - $96,988,107 (8%)\n\t \n\n\tAdministrative costs are baked into the grant at $48,556,680 or 4% total.\n\n\n\tFunding will come in rounds, with round 1 consisting of $100 million total statewide. LWI divided the state into eight total watersheds, with Livingston sitting in group 7 - along with portions of Washington, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, East Baton Rouge, Ascension, St. Helena, East Feliciana, and West Feliciana.\n\n\n\tEach watershed will elect a fiscal agent to represent their interests at the 'table,' so to speak, which is the LWI board that meets regularly. Group 7's fiscal agent is, at this time, the Capital Region Planning Commission (CRPC).\n\n\n\tLivingston received a special designation as a HUD-specific, major disaster area. That puts it in line with nine other parishes for 50% of the community block grant monies as an automatic distribution. 26 other parishes will compete for the other 50%, if applicable, or the HUD-specific will take the remainder.\n\n\n\tGroup 7's first meeting will be this Friday, Dec. 6, at the Bluebonnet library beginning at 9:30 a.m. The group will discuss their action plan for pursuing the first round of funding, coming in 2020, with phases 2 and 3 coming in 2022 and 2024, respectively.\n\n\n\tPhase 1 funding is provided as an incentive for local governments to act within their group, as opposed to alone, to develop regional drainage plans on a watershed basis, as opposed to single drainage outlet basis. Rounds 2 & 3 will be more restricted to models that prove a specific return on investment, based on developed modeling, for their specific watershed.\n\n\n\tLivingston's inclusion in the HUD-specific parishes comes on the back of the Great Flood of 2016. The state's action plan lists the August flood as a special section, highlighting the devastation incurred by the disaster with the following facts and figures:\n\n\n\t An estimated 8,000 people were evacuated to emergency shelter sites\n\t\t30,000 search-and-rescues were performed\n\t\t11,000 sheltered at the height of the disaster\n\t\t30 state roads washed out\n\t\t1,400 bridges requiring inspection\n\t\t200 highways closed during the flood\n\t\tPortions of interstate closed, in some cases for multiple days\n\t\t91,628 homes were document with damage\n\t\t31% of homes in declared parishes were impacted by flooding, only 11% with flood insurance\n\t\t19,900 Louisiana businesses or roughly 20% of all Louisiana businesses\n\t\t278,500 workers disrupted, 14% of Louisiana's workforce\n\t\t$300 million in labor lost, $836 million in terms of value added\n\t\t6,000 businesses flooded directly\n\t\tLSU Ag Center estimated crop loss in the $110 million range\n\t \n\n\tIn order to try and stop that from happening again, watersheds will participate in what is being defined as a competitive process. The action plan outlines the ability for watersheds to pursue grant funding through all of the program areas to work in tandem.\n\n\n\t\"As local, regional, and state government and organizations work through the LWI toward regional, watershed-based coordination and as the LWI develops datasets and modeling tools to inform watershed management policy and project mitigation activities (see also Program Areas 3 & 4), the LWI will provide funding and assistance to local and regional organizations to implement identified projects and program with demonstrable and quantifiable mitigation outcomes,\" the plan states.\n\n\n\tProgram Area 1, which are focused on local watershed projects and programs, are focused (but not limited to) the following list:\n\n\n\n\t Watershed restoration and preservation, flood mitigation of critical facilities and infrastructure, nonstructural mitigation, stormwater management, and other innovative/replicable flood control activities;\n\t\tElevation, buyout or acquisition of floodplain easements in strategically located flood abatement areas or existing developments located in repetitive loss areas;\n\t\tVoluntary relocation projects enabling residents to move out of high flood risk areas;\n\t\tMajor capital projects that improve resilience to flooding, provide regional stormwater detention, or other flood protection measures;\n\t\tCapacity building toward implementation of resilient development standards and floodplain management regulations;\n\t\tHousing developments using sound, resilient construction practices to mitigate long-term flood risk;\n\t\tTraining and certification in resilient building methods;\n\t\tTraining and apprenticeship programs to educate elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students in watershed data collection, modeling, and resilient best practices; and\n\t\tAny other relevant projects and programs developed through the LWI's watershed modeling, statewide planning, and regional planning efforts.\n\t \n\n\tProgram area 2 includes State projects and programs, which can include regional retention and detention projects that would help with the large rainfall events that lead to flash flooding. Also on the list for state projects are:\n\n\n\tLarge area buyouts - Purchasing subdivisions and homes that are in repetitive loss situations\n\n\n\tResilient, affordable housing programs - Moving poor out of flood hazard areas and into more flood-mitigated housing\n\n\n\tRemote lands purchasing - Land that was once subdivided for development but is no longer desirable due to a disaster. The state could potentially use funds to purchase these areas for detention and retention.\n\n\n\tLivingston Parish, in their pursuit of a master drainage plan, could benefit from program areas 3 & 4 - which deal with monitoring, mapping, modeling, and policy, however their fund totals are much lower.\n\n\n\tThe Livingston Parish Council allocated roughly $167,000 as a grant match to improve the Master Plan to include a zoning and master drainage plan.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/dems-frightening-abuse-power", "Dems' Frightening Abuse of Power", "2019-12-06", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) strongly criticized Democrats' abuses of power and legislative irresponsibility intoday's colloquy withMajority Leader Steny Hoyer(D-Md.). Whip Scalise once again pressed Majority Leader Hoyer on when the American people can expect Democrats to bring USMCA to the House floor. Whip Scalise also blasted Chairman Schiff's apparent abuse of power in selectively leaking the subpoenaing of his colleagues' phone records, and the complete lack of transparency throughout this sham impeachment inquiry. Democrats simply do not have the facts to support their assertion that President Trump committed impeachable offenses. Congress should get back to legislating, and let the American people decide who will be our next president. See highlights from the colloquy below. On Chairman Schiff's apparent abuse of power:  \n\nClick here or on the image above to watch the clip.\n\n\"Well, I would hope that [Majority Leader Steny Hoyer] would work with us to get to the bottom of this. As the gentleman pointed out, he's not aware of what [Chairman Schiff] is really doing, neither am I. But I'm very concerned about what the Chairman has done and that is still, and I'll yield in a moment, but he's selectively put in a report the names of members of the press, of Members of Congress, who he has had political disagreements with. He didn't put the names of everybody else in there. If he's got 3500 pages of reports of phone records of people he's been spying on, he won't share all of those people that he's spying on, but he's selectively going to leak out names of members of the press who've written articles maybe that he disagrees with. That's frightening. \"That would be an abuse of power, but we don't know because the Chairman won't share the details of what he's up to, but he did selectively put some of that in a report that wasn't even discussed in the hearings. And so yes, it raises alarms, it raises concerns, and I would hope we get to the bottom of it.\"\n  OnDemocrats' liberal law professor witnesses failing to justify that President Trump should be impeached:  \n\t\n\n\tClick here or on the image above to watch the clip.\n\n\"I appreciate the gentleman yielding, I guess he's acknowledging it's a foregone conclusion that [Democrats] are going to pass impeachment of the President by saying it's going to go to the Senate. But let's keep in mind, as you talk about the three out of the four witnesses from this week, all four of them, first of all, acknowledged that they had absolutely no firsthand knowledge of anything that happened. So, they were giving their opinions. All four of them acknowledge not one of them voted for President Trump, which is their prerogative, but some of them actually testified under oath that they have given money to Democrat candidates for President who are running against President Trump. So, they're actively engaged in defeating President Trump and then we're supposed to expect that they're giving some impartial, scholarly assessment of evidence that they've seen  acknowledging they have no firsthand knowledge themselves. But they're incredibly biased because they're campaigning against the President, but you brought them in to try to make them look like they're objective witnesses. I think that came out very clearly, their political bias,and I'm glad, at least under oath, they acknowledged that they had a political bias.\"But even one of the witnesses, all of whom said they voted against the President, said it would be abuse of power of this committee, of your [Democrat] majority, to impeach a President based on him exercising his rights, and frankly, following the law. Which part of the law says[the law] that the gentleman from Maryland [Majority Leader Steny Hoyer] voted for, the Chairman of the [Intelligence Committee], even the Speaker of the House voted for that requires a President of the United States, prior to sending hard-earned taxpayer money to a foreign country, to ensure that they're rooting out corruption. Which President Zelensky ran on a platform of. But the old Reagan doctrine of trust but verify was in process where they were verifying that President Zelensky was in fact the real deal, and we determined that. And we have high confidence that President Zelensky is following through on rooting out corruption and the money was released  prior to the deadline for the money to be released. And there was no investigation, there was no announcements and all these other things.\"So, let's keep in mind, the bias of those witnesses. But ultimately, the people of this country I think are deciding this already.But the people of the country are the ones next year who should be the ones to select the President of the United States. Not some people who have said since 2016 that they didn't like that election so they're going to try to impeach the President regardless of facts.\"\n  Onthe lack of facts to support Democrats' assertion that President Trump committed impeachable offenses:  \n\t\n\n\tClick here or on the image above to watch the clip.\n\"Well, we're beyond the processargumentsbecause we are into the details now, and the facts have been very clear that the President did not abuse power. The President did not commit impeachable offenses. The Mueller report confirmed that first of all, and then even the witnesses, the witnesses that the Democrats brought forward time and time again were asked can you name an impeachable offense?' Not one. Can you name bribery?' Which was the new term after the majority party focus grouped quid pro quo and realized that wasn't getting them where they wanted to go. Bribery, they were asked, can you name any cases of bribery?' Not one. Even the witnesses earlier this week, none of whom had any firsthand knowledge of anything. You know, why they were there, who knows, but not one of them could name any firsthand account of wrongdoing.\n\t\n\t\"What we do know, is that over 100 Democrats in this chamber voted for impeachment prior to the phone call with President Zelensky. Voted for impeachment without any facts, because that was the objective of many in the majority was to impeach the President just because they didn't agree with the results of the 2016 election. Not because there were high crimes and misdemeanors. [They] still haven't been able to lay out any innuendo, hopes and dreams, none of which have come to fruition when the witnesses have come forward. And basically, the two people that are really most pertinent to this are President Trump and President Zelensky, because they were the two who participated in the phone call.\n\t\n\t\"Both of them said there was nothing wrong done. In fact, President Zelensky appreciated the phone call from President Trump. Thanked him for help he's given, that President Obama didn't give to stand up to Russia and ultimately said there was no pressure and got the money for additional aid that he requested. Those are the facts.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://richmond.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-richmond-and-colleagues-introduce-legislation-banning-afro-textured", "Rep. Richmond and Colleagues Introduce Legislation Banning Afro-Textured Hair Discrimination", "2019-12-05", "2019", "2019-12", "Democrat", "House", "LA", "Cedric Richmond", "R000588", "richmond.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.- Today, Congressman Cedric Richmond (LA-02) along with Congresswomen Barbara Lee (CA-13), Marcia Fudge (OH-11), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) issued the following statement after introducing the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (CROWN Act):\nFor far too long, Black Americans have faced senseless forms of discrimination merely because of how they choose to wear their hair. As states begin to tackle this issue, it is long overdue for Congress to act, said Rep. Richmond. From Louisiana to New Jersey, textured hair should never serve as a professional or educational impediment nor should it ever lead to a reprimand of consequence. In America, we regularly subscribe to the notion that our diversity is our strength. Now is the time to walk the walk, not just talk to the talk. That is why I partnered with Representatives Lee, Fudge, Pressley, Senator Booker, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Crown Coalition advocate Adjoa B. Asamoah, and Civil Rights activist, lawyer, and #FreeTheHair Movement founder Wendy Greene to introduce this urgent legislation. Together, with this bill, we can ensure this form of discrimination no longer goes unchecked.\nEvery day, Black women and men are forced to consider if their natural hair is appropriate or professional by Eurocentric standards, said Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13). With the introduction of the CROWN Act of 2019, we are making it clear that discrimination against Black women and men who wear their natural hairstyles is wrong and must be prohibited. I began this fight in 2014 when I stood up to the U.S. military's policy that prohibited servicemembers from wearing natural hair, and I will continue until every woman and man is protected. With the CROWN Act, we can turn the page on forcing cultural norms that penalize Black people and other people of color from wearing their natural hair. I thank Congressman Richmond for his leadership in introducing this important bill.\nIt is disheartening that, in 2019, hair discrimination creates additional barriers for people of color in education and places of employment, said Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. Traditional hairstyles worn by African Americans are often necessary to meet our unique needs, and are a representation of our culture and ethnicity. To require anyone to change their natural appearance to acquire educational resources or a job is undeniably an infringement on their civil rights. I'm proud to be a cosponsor of the House companion of the CROWN Act, which protects against discrimination based on hair in federally funded institutions and in the workplace.\nFor too long, Black women and girls have been told that their hair is too curly, too unprofessional, too distracting said Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. As a Congresswoman, I choose to wear my hair in twists because I want to intentionally create space for all of us to show up in the world as our authentic selves  whether it's in the classroom, in the workplace or in the halls of Congress. I am proud to support the CROWN Act, which is a bold step towards ensuring that people can stand in their truth while removing the narrative that Black people should show up as anything other than who they are.\nDiscrimination against Black hair is discrimination against Black people, Senator Booker said. Implicit and explicit biases against natural hair are deeply ingrained in workplace norms and society at large. This is a violation of our civil rights, and it happens every day for black people across the country. You need to look no further than Gabrielle Union, who was reportedly fired because her hair was too black'  a toxic dog-whistle African Americans have had to endure for far too long. No one should be harassed, punished, or fired for the beautiful hairstyles that are true to themselves and their cultural heritage.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/shameful", "This is Shameful", "2019-12-05", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Chanel'sHannityto discuss Democrats' useless 8.5 hour lecture from liberal anti-Trump law professors, which failed yet again to make their case for impeachment. Whip Scalise blasted Democrats for wasting time on liberal professors who have no firsthand knowledgeof this case instead of conducting the American people's business. Every minute spent in impeachment hearings is a minute we could have spent fixing trade deals, lowering prescription drug prices, addressing the security and humanitarian crisis on the southern border, and funding our military.It's a shame and this process is a sham.  \n\n  Clickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\n\nFull remarks:\n[Democrats] really have no idea where they want to go with [impeachment] because they thought it was going to be the Mueller report that was going to give them impeachable charges that they can go and [bring forward]. And there's nothing this President's done wrong ultimately at the end of the day. You know, Jim Jordan says it best with the four facts  the bottom line is President Zelensky and President Trump were the only two people participating in the phone call and neither of them had a problem with the call. Zelensky was thanking President Trump for helping him, for selling him the Javelin missiles so he can stand up to Russia, something President Obama and Joe Biden wouldn't do. No one in the media wants to ask that.\n\t\n\tEvery witness [Democrats] bring forward, you know Matt Gaetz did it really well today where he said can any one of you raise your hand if you've seen anything wrong?' Not any of the witnesses from [the House Intelligence Committee] or here today in [the House Judiciary Committee], no witness can tell you anything that the President did illegal. The disdain that these law professors had for Donald Trump and the fact that he got elected in 2016 was clear. I thought it was disgraceful what Stanford Law Professor Karlan, or whatever she's a professor of, she owes an apology, [an] unequivocal apology. I don't know if she supports bullying, but to pick on a minor child to try to make yourself look cute in front of your colleagues or something, it's disgraceful, and I hope Stanford doesn't stand for that because that's what they had to do today.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-larson-buchanan-wyden-introduce-know-your-social-security-act", "Cassidy, Larson, Buchanan, Wyden Introduce Know Your Social Security Act", "2019-12-05", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.05.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Larson, Buchanan, Wyden Introduce Know Your Social Security Act \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  Senate Finance Committee Member U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced the Know Your Social Security Act along with Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John Larson (D-CT) and Ways and Means Committee Member Vern Buchanan (R-FL). The legislation will clarify the requirement for the Social Security Administration (SSA) to mail an annual Social Security Statement to all workers ages 25 and older with covered earnings, who are not receiving Social Security benefits. Since Fiscal Year 2011 SSA has failed to mail annual Statements to these Americans, citing limited operating budgets, even though in 1989 and 1990 Congress enacted requirements for SSA to provide a Statement annually. Social Security is our nation's foundation to a solid retirement. Americans who contribute to Social Security should receive an update every year so they know what benefits they are earning and can plan for their retirements. No matter what happens in the stock market, Social Security will always be there for them, said Larson. I'm proud to introduce this bipartisan, bicameral legislation alongside Ranking Member Wyden, Senator Cassidy and Congressman Buchanan. Too many hardworking Americans enter retirement without enough savings, Buchanan said. Because Social Security is the primary source of income for a majority of seniors, it is imperative they have a full understanding of their benefits as they plan for retirement. Americans pay into Social Security out of every paycheck in exchange for a guaranteed benefit in their old age. As younger Americans grow more doubtful about their chances for a secure retirement, this bill will provide them clear view of what their earned benefits will be, said Wyden. I'm pleased to introduce this bill on a bipartisan, bicameral basis with a view towards passing it into law swiftly.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-senate-passes-permanent-funding-for-historically-black-colleges-and-universities", "Cassidy: Senate Passes Permanent Funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities", "2019-12-05", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.05.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy: Senate Passes Permanent Funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), a member of the Senate Education Committee, today announced the Senate passage of the FUTURE Act, legislation to permanently authorize funding for America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSI). Previously, authorization for funding of HBCUs and MSIs expired on Sept. 30, creating uncertainty for these institutions and the students they serve. The legislation now awaits consideration by the House of Representatives.\r\nNothing is more powerful to help achieve the American dream than education. We hope the House of Representatives will pass this legislation quickly to give certainty to these important institutions and their students, said Dr. Cassidy\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-tillis-coons-hirono-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-seize-counterfeit-products-and-protect-american-consumers-and-businesses", "Cassidy, Tillis, Coons, Hirono Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Seize Counterfeit Products and Protect American Consumers and Businesses", "2019-12-05", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.05.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Tillis, Coons, Hirono Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Seize Counterfeit Products and Protect American Consumers and Businesses \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced bipartisan legislation to authorize U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize imported merchandise that infringes a design patentand harms U.S. consumers and businesses.\r\nAccording to a recentstudy, the estimated value of international and domestic trade in counterfeit and pirated goodswas over $1 trillion in 2013 and the estimated value is projected to reach nearly $2 trillion in 2022. TheCounterfeit GoodsSeizure Act of 2019would help reduce the flow of counterfeit goods entering the United States and protect U.S. consumers and businessesfrom dangerous, harmful, and illegal products.\r\nCounterfeit products undermine American businesses and put families in danger,said Dr. Cassidy.Criminal organizations sell counterfeit goods to fund illegal activity. This Legislation better enables American law enforcement to combat criminal groups and protect Americans.\r\nThe inflow of counterfeit goodsinto the United States is an issue that affects American consumers and businesses alike and results inthe American economy losingbillions of dollarsevery year,said Senator Tillis.I am proud to introduce thisbipartisan legislation to give U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to seize merchandise that infringes on design patents so we can take steps to stem the flow of counterfeit goods and protect American interests.\r\nCounterfeit goods brought into the United States from overseas cheat Americans who don't get the products they expect with their money,said Senator Coons.They also pose serious safety risks, line the pockets of organized crime, damage the reputations of legitimate American businesses, and rob them of hard-earned revenue. I am proud to introduce this bipartisan bill that will empower U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize products for design patent infringement and safeguard American businesses and consumers.\r\nCounterfeit products from China and other countries flood our country at an alarming rate. These products steal sales from American companies and damage the brands those companies have worked so hard to build. Even more concerning, counterfeit products put the health and well-being of American consumers at risk,Senator Hirono said.While Customs and Border Protection has the authority to seize products that infringe copyrights and trademarks at the border, it lacks this same authority for products that infringe a design patent. Counterfeiters exploit this loophole by importing counterfeit products separately from labels containing an infringing trademark, only attaching the label once the counterfeit product has cleared customs. The Counterfeit Goods Seizure Act of 2019 closes this loophole by giving CBP the authority to seize counterfeit products that infringe design patents at the border. This simple change will go a long way toward protecting American consumers and businesses from harm.\r\nThe Intellectual Property Owners Association and American Intellectual Property Law Association wrote a letter of supporthere. The International Trademark Association also wrote a letter of supporthere.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2019/12/sen-kennedy-r-la-a-public-auction-of-c-band-for-5g-deployment-is-a-win-for-american-taxpayers", "Sen. Kennedy (R-La.): A Public Auction of C-band for 5G Deployment is a Win for American Taxpayers", "2019-12-05", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "John Kennedy", "K000393", "www.kennedy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Home\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tServices\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLegislation\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMedia\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-whole-production-sham-and-reckless-path-pre-determined-political", "JOHNSON: THIS WHOLE PRODUCTION IS A SHAM AND A RECKLESS PATH TO A PRE-DETERMINED, POLITICAL OUTCOME", "2019-12-04", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today made the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing exposing Democrats' partisan impeachment inquiry:\nFrom the fraudulent process and the broken procedure to the Democrats' unfounded claims, the full facts are obviously not before us today. We've been allowed no fact witnesses here at all. For the first time ever, this committee  which is the one in Congress that has the actual jurisdiction over impeachment  is being given no access to the underlying evidence that Adam Schiff and his political accomplices claim supports this charade. This is a shocking denial of due process.\nThe greatest danger of this fraudulent impeachment production is not what happens this afternoon, or by Christmas or in the election next fall. The greatest danger is what this will do in the days ahead to our 243-year experiment in self-governance and what effect this foolish, new precedent  this Pandora's box  will have upon our beleaguered nation six or seven years from now, a decade now from now, in the ruins of public liberty that are created by this short-sighted exercise today.\nTo watch Johnson's full remarks, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-applauds-house-passage-traced-act", "Scalise Applauds House Passage of the TRACED Act", "2019-12-04", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)made the following statement after the House passed the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act to combat the robocall epidemic:    Robocalls are out of control, and we took a significant action today to combat this nuisance that affects millions of families across America by passing the TRACED Act. Not only are these calls a nuisance, they are often perpetrated by criminals who are willfully ignoring the law in an attempt to defraud American families. This bill requires telephone carriers to verify calls, and empowers people with updated technology to block calls from scam artists, all at no additional cost to consumers. The bill also gives law enforcement and the FCC the tools needed to quickly pursue robocall scammers. I look forward to this legislation being signed into law by President Trump soon.    Background:    In May, the Senate passed the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act. In July, the House passed the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act. The bills were merged as part of the final agreement.    Please find the text for the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://scalise.house.gov/media/press-releases/scalise-dems-realize-impeachment-disaster", "Scalise: Dems Realize Impeachment is a Disaster", "2019-12-04", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel'sThe Ingraham Angleto discuss Democrats' impeachment disaster, which has been a circus from the beginning. Whip Scalise emphasized that Democrats are starting to feel the pressure as their impeachment witch hunt proves to have a serious cost to the American people. The failed Democrat majority is neglectingbipartisan solutions, like USMCA, lowering drug prices, and funding our military to pursue their impeachment scam and hardworking families are paying the price.  \n\nClickhereor on the image above to watch the interview.\nOn Democrats beginning to realize their impeachment sham is a disaster:\n\t\"This thing from the beginning has been a circus. And if you talk about, you know, Jerry Nadler, the clip you just showed, that is going to be repeated over and over again like Andy Biggs said because what Nadler talked about back then were things that hold true still to this day. You know, there is nothing to impeach this president on, unlike Clinton. There were actual crimes committed by Bill Clinton. Whether they were impeachable, you could argue, but they were crimes.\n\"With [President Trump] they have tried. It is a hope for violation of law but they have yet to show anything because the President didn't break any law. And so they just keep going on a witch hunt and it started with the President was tied to the interference with the elections, then the President was tied to collusion, then it was obstruction, over and over. There are some Democrats that are starting to realize this is a disaster. They don't know where to go with this because they have put themselves in a hole and they can't get out of it.\"  \n\t  On the Ukrainian President admitting President Trump didn't do anything wrong and there was no pressure:  \n\t  \"The President didn't do anything wrong. And ultimately, the victim they're trying to claim was [Ukrainian President Zelensky], and Zelensky himself said nothing wrong was done to him. He got the aid, there was no pressure, and yet they still want to try to make him out as a victim and he wasn't. [President Trump] stood up to Russia and helped Ukraine and Obama didn't do it.\"  \n\t  On the abuse of the FISA Court:  \n\t\"When [Republicans] were in the majority, we already covered abuses of the FISA Court. It concerns me. It should concern all Americans because we need to have confidence that the FISA Court works properly. I hope that Attorney General Barr uncovers and unroots all of the bad apples that are over there because there are still bad apples there.\n\t\n\t\"Everybody who has faith and confidence in the FBI and every intelligence agency should want to get to the bottom of this. Get the bad apples out of there. Some maybe should go to jail because of what they did to violate the law. But then, let's clean up and make the process work for all Americans. It shouldn't be a partisan issue.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-hassan-statement-on-report-that-white-house-open-to-surprise-medical-bill-compromise", "Cassidy, Hassan Statement on Report that White House Open to Surprise Medical Bill Compromise", "2019-12-04", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.04.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Hassan Statement on Report that White House Open to Surprise Medical Bill Compromise \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH)released the following statement on Politico's report that the White House is open to a surprise medical bill fix similar to what Senators Cassidy, Hassan, and their bipartisan working group put forward.\r\nWe deeply appreciate the White House's shared goal of getting legislation to end the practice of surprise medical bills signed into law before the end of the year. Our bipartisan working group put forward legislation that first and foremost takes consumers out of the middle of payment disputes between providers and plans. Our approach uses a simple baseball-style arbitration as a safety valve to help providers and plans resolve these billing disputes because after working on the issue for more than a year, it became clear that this solution was the best one for communities in all parts of the country, and because it is the only one that we believe can pass the Senate. We've been encouraged by our ongoing discussions with Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray, and we're grateful for the White House's engagement as we work together to get this bill across the finish line and protect patients from this outrageous practice.\r\nSenators Hassan and Cassidy have led efforts to address surprise medical bills and worked for months with members from both parties to craft the STOP Surprise Medical Bills Act to end this practice. In May, Senators Hassan and Cassidy joined President Trump at a White House eventon the need to address this issue. In June, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee  on which both Senators serve  passed legislation to end surprise medical bills as part of a broader package of legislation to address health care costs called the Lower Health Care Costs Act. Both Senators recently participated in a Bipartisan Policy Center discussion on their efforts to end surprise medical bills.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-sinema-allred-stefanik-introduce-bipartisan-bill-supporting-parents-in-critical-first-year-following-births-adoptions", "Cassidy, Sinema, Allred, Stefanik Introduce Bipartisan Bill Supporting Parents in Critical First Year Following Births, Adoptions", "2019-12-04", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.04.19\n\t\t\t Cassidy, Sinema, Allred, Stefanik Introduce Bipartisan Bill Supporting Parents in Critical First Year Following Births, Adoptions \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t First-of-its-kind bipartisan bicameral plan allows families to receive advance Child Tax Credits to offset leave, childcare, other expenses\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t WASHINGTON U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and U.S. Representatives Colin Allred (D-TX) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) today introduced legislation with resources to pay for leave and cover the cost of day care, baby supplies and other expenses associated with a new child.\r\nThe Advancing Support for Working Families Act would allow families the option to advance up to $5,000of theirrecently-doubledchild tax credit in the first year of a child's life or the first year a family adopts a child. Families can also choose to advance their child credit without having to miss workor sacrifice a state or employer's family/medical leave policy to pay for other expenses.\r\n\r\nMost other paid leave proposals require parents to take off work to receive benefits, this bill allows teleworkers the option to access child care benefits and to continue working fromhomewhile they take care of their new child. Additionally, the bill does not raise taxes or take away from Social Security.\r\nLow income earners who do not qualify for the full refundable portion of the child tax credit can elect to receive a benefit adjusted to 100 percent wage replacement over 12 weeks of work.\r\n\r\nThe bill is the only bipartisan, bicameral legislation to support working families during their child's first year. It is the product ofmore than a year of workto craft a bill that could pass with bipartisan support.\r\n\r\nThe first year of a child's life is the most expensive. This bill achieves our goal of helping working families better provide for their child in the way that best works for their family,said Dr. Cassidy.\r\n\r\nToo often, Arizonans who start families are forced to decide between going back to work right away, or losing wages by taking time off to spend with their growing families, saidSinema. Arizona families deserve better. Our bipartisan bill represents an important first step that can pass Congress now, offering parents a new option to finance time off of work or help pay for childcare.\r\nEarlier this year I took a short parental leave from Congress to be with my wife Aly for the birth of our son, and I want to ensure more parents have access to financial help that could fund leave or offset other costs like child care,said Congressman Allred.I was able to be there for my family, and we need to make sure more parents can do the same. This bipartisan bill will provide families with flexibility and much-needed cash in hand within weeks of the arrival of their new baby.\r\nThe joy of starting a family should not be dampened by the fear of being unable to make ends meet if a parent takes time off work,said Congresswoman Stefanik.This bipartisan effort to support hardworking families in the first year after birth or adoption will prove critical to ensuring families can thrive without the burden of potential bankruptcy or debt. I'm proud to introduce the Advancing Support for Working Families Act with my colleagues, which will bring tangible benefits and enhance paid leave options for the hardworking families in the North Country.\r\nCosponsors are U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-MT), Shelley Capito (R-WV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and U.S. Representatives Joe Cunningham (D-SC), Jeff VanDrew (D-NJ), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Jamie Herrera-Beutler (R-WA), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) and Bryan Steil (R-WI).\r\nTo view bill text, click here.\r\nTo view section by section, click here.\r\n###\r\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t   \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2019/12/03/higgins-introduces-resolution-prohibiting-present-vote-impeachment/", "Higgins Introduces Resolution Prohibiting \u201cPresent\u201d Vote on Impeachment", "2019-12-03", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) is introducing H. Res. 736, the \u201cStand for Something Resolution,\u201d which eliminates the option to vote \u201cpresent\u201d and forces members of the U.S. House of Representatives to take a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d stance on legislation.\n\nMembers of Congress have used the \u201cpresent\u201d voting option to avoid taking a stand on consequential pieces of legislation. Some recent examples include:\n\nOn July 18, 2018, 133 House Democrats voted \u201cpresent\u201d on H. Res. 990, Congressman Higgins\u2019 resolution to support ICE agents and their mission.\n\nOn March 26, 2019, 43 Senate Democrats voted \u201cpresent\u201d on S.J. Res. 8, the Green New Deal. This included Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet, and Kirsten Gillibrand.\n\nOn October 29, 2019, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) voted \u201cpresent\u201d on H. Res. 296, a bill condemning the Armenian genocide.\n\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cMembers of Congress weren\u2019t sent to DC to sit on the sidelines and vote \u2018present.\u2019 With a vote on articles of impeachment potentially forthcoming, voting \u2018present\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be an option.\n\n\u201cWe were not elected to be silent. The American people deserve to know where every member of Congress stands. We should have the courage of our convictions to either vote for or against every piece of legislation. To vote \u2018present\u2019 reflects fear.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"], ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-introduces-resolution-prohibiting-present-vote-impeachment", "Higgins Introduces Resolution Prohibiting \"Present\" Vote on Impeachment", "2019-12-03", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) is introducing H. Res. 736, the Stand for Something Resolution, which eliminates the option to vote present and forces members of the U.S. House of Representatives to take a yes or no stance on legislation.\nMembers of Congress have used the present voting option to avoid taking a stand on consequential pieces of legislation. Some recent examples include:\n \nOn July 18, 2018,133 House Democrats voted present on H. Res. 990, Congressman Higgins' resolution to support ICE agents and their mission.\n\tOn March 26, 2019,43 Senate Democrats voted present on S.J. Res. 8, the Green New Deal. This includedDemocratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet, and Kirsten Gillibrand.\n\tOn October 29, 2019,Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) voted present on H. Res. 296, a bill condemning the Armenian genocide.\n \n  Congressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n \n\tMembers of Congress weren't sent to DC to sit on the sidelines and vote present.' With a vote on articles of impeachment potentially forthcoming, voting present' shouldn't be an option.\n\tWe were not elected to be silent. The American people deserve to know where every member of Congress stands. We should have the courage of our convictions to either vote for or against every piece of legislation. To vote present' reflects fear.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/in-the-news/amid-impeachment-groups-press-limits-foreign-influence", "Amid impeachment, groups press for limits on foreign influence", "2019-12-03", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "As foreign influence takes center stage in House impeachment proceedings, lawmakers, candidates, and outside groups are tossing around proposals to curb, or shed new light on, efforts from abroad to sway U.S. policy and elections.\nLiberal-leaning groups, including Public Citizen, are prodding House Democrats to sign on to forthcoming legislation that would overhaul foreign lobbying regulations. The Center for American Progress on Thursday will unveil a set of proposals calling for new limits on the political contributions of companies that have significantforeign ownership.\nAs foreign influence takes center stage in House impeachment proceedings, lawmakers, candidates, and outside groups are tossing around proposals to curb, or shed new light on, efforts from abroad to sway U.S. policy and elections.\nLiberal-leaning groups, including Public Citizen, are prodding House Democrats to sign on to forthcoming legislation that would overhaul foreign lobbying regulations. The Center for American Progress on Thursday will unveil a set of proposals calling for new limits on the political contributions of companies that have significantforeign ownership.\nA bipartisan bill to revise the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law that has found unprecedented fame during the Trump era, appears stalled in the Senate, while outside groups say they are working to gin up bipartisan support for a companion bill in the House. \nWe are still working to get commitments from Democrats who are on the House Judiciary Committee, said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen. Impeachment hearings are kind of taking up all the air out of the room.\nHe said Rep.Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, is still interested in such a measure, which he championed in the last Congress. Rep.Madeleine Dean, a Pennsylvania Democrat, has also expressed interest, Holman said. Two spokesmen in her office did not respond to a request for comment. \nJohnson, during a C-SPAN Newsmakers interview earlier this month, said he'd never let go of his objective of moving legislation to overhaul foreign lobbying laws. I think it is a bipartisan concern and something that we can get folks across the aisle to work on together, he said, adding that House members were working on that.\nHolman called the legislation, which would give additional subpoena-like authority to the Justice Department's FARA unit, a very realistic bill.\nThis is something we can get done in the 116th Congress, he said.\n Stalled in Senate \nStill, there's been little sign of action in the Senate, whereCharles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, and DemocratsDianne Feinsteinof California andJeanne Shaheenof New Hampshire are among the bill's backers. The bill has been referred to the Foreign Relations Committee and nohearing has been scheduled, said the panel's spokeswoman Suzanne B. Wrasse.\nAdvocates from outside organizations with concerns about the measure say they're continuing to monitor the process, too, and making their views known on Capitol Hill.\nWe understand the concerns about protecting American democracy from foreign interference, but we want to make sure the act is targeted so it does not undermine the activism of nonprofits and others, said Nicholas Robinson, legal adviser at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, who said the current FARA language is overly broad and stepped up enforcement could lead to new problems for international organizations. We're concerned about how the act can be weaponized against nonprofits and activists.\nLast year, for example, House Republicans  including Utah Rep.Rob Bishop, then chairman of the Natural Resources Committee  sent letters to environmental nonprofit organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice, suggesting they may need to register as foreign agents;Earthjustice registered under FARA in September, while the NRDC has not registered under FARA, according to filings.\nFARA applies mainly to U.S. lobbyists and other representatives of foreign governments and foreign political parties, but critics say it is so vaguely written that, amid increasing enforcement, it could rope in organizations that receive foreign funding.\nWarren's campaign says on its website that it seeks to ban foreign corporate influence in U.S. elections, which is a similar aim of the Center for American Progress' new proposals. (CAP has not endorsed Warren or any Democrat running for the party's White House nomination.)\n Foreign ownership threshold \nUnder CAP's proposals, companies would not be allowed to spend unlimited sums on federal, state and local electioneering efforts if a single foreign entity owns or controls at least 1 percent of a company, or if multiple foreign entities own or control at least 5 percent of a corporation. It would not, however, limit the lobbying activities by such companies, nor would it affect such companies' political action committees, which are funded by the donations of individual employees. \nCAP's proposal would apply to U.S.-based companies, as well as U.S. subsidiaries of foreign corporations.\nOne of the big problems today that is not talked about enough is this issue of foreigners influencing our elections via U.S. companies in which the foreigners own stock, and it's essentially a loophole through which foreign influence comes into our elections, said Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at CAP. He added that foreign investors own approximately 35 percent of corporate stock in the United States, though he noted that his group was not interested in curbing those investments, only such companies'direct spendingon elections.\nSuch a plan would apply to corporate donations to super PACs or nonprofit organizations, such as trade associations, that engage in electioneering activities. Companies that meet the thresholds could still pay dues to trade associations, though, Sozan noted. \nCorporations that are foreign influenced should not be allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money from their corporate treasuries to influence our elections and our policies, he said.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/in-the-news/impeachment-hearings-produced-no-bombshells-rep-johnson-says", "Impeachment hearings produced no bombshells, Rep. Johnson says", "2019-12-03", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to GOP Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana and NPR's Tim Mak about the conclusion of the first public phase of the impeachment inquiry. What is the next phase of the probe?\nListen to the interview here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"], ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/in-the-news/johnson-announces-huge-grant-leesville-airport", "Johnson announces huge grant for Leesville Airport", "2019-12-03", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Representative Mike Johnson has officially announced that the Leesville Municipal Airport will be given $548,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation. This grant is intended to make runway safety area improvements.\nJohnson released the following statement earlier this week:\nLeesville Municipal Airport plays a critical role in producing income and access for the city and its surrounding area. This investment will go a long way in making sure it is able to continue those operations safely and successfully. I am grateful for the Trump administration's decision to support our local communities and enable them for further economic success.\nAdditionally, U.S Transportation Secretary Elaine L. 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