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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BRPROUD)- Congressman Troy Carter announced his bill to forgive up to $50,000 in federal student loans for any and all federal borrowers.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana households could begin getting direct payments Thursday, as part of the expanded child tax credits.

It’s all part of the American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed back in March.

The goal is to reduce child poverty in the country by 50%.

“And there hasn’t been a program that has this kind of impact in families, since 1960,” said Congressman Troy Carter (D), 2nd District.

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and eight others were arrested Thursday after they took part in a voting rights protest that illegally blocked the door of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill.

Johnson, 66, who has represented a majority-African American district east of Atlanta since 2007, tweeted that he was “protesting against Senate inaction on voting rights legislation & filibuster reform.

Troy Carter lost congressional races to represent New Orleans in 2006 and 2008 before winning the seat in a special election in April.

So, what’s it like to finally secure his dream job?

“It’s everything I hoped it would be,” Carter said in an interview. “It’s been everything and then some. It’s not a walk in the park, though. You start early. It’s a lot of work. It’s been like drinking from a firehose – fast-paced. But I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it.”

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy last week joined Louisiana’s congressional delegation in urging the Office of Management and Budget to prioritize Louisiana’s request for supplemental disaster relief in response to Hurricanes Laura and Delta.

In 1970, River Parishes leaders who were worried that the new levee system being built in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Betsy would push flooding to communities on the western edge of Lake Pontchartrain met with the Corps of Engineers to ask for greater protection.

A day after U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins revealed he is ill with COVID, he along with Rep. Garret Graves and Rep. Mike Johnson would not disclose Monday whether they have been vaccinated.

The other five members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation say they have received their COVID shot and are encouraging others to do so as well.

“The benefits vastly outweigh the costs,” U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy, R-Madisonville, said in an interview.

Days after Gov. John Bel Edwards said he couldn’t instill a statewide eviction moratorium despite demands from U.S. Rep. Troy Carter (D-New Orleans) and housing advocates that he take decisive action, the governor praised President Joe Biden’s administration for implementing a new 60-day federal moratorium on evictions that will apply to most (if not all) of Louisiana.