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BATON ROUGE, L.A. – Today, Congressman Troy A Carter Sr., alongside Governor Jon Bel Edwards, Southern University Chairman Edwin Shorty, and Southern University President-Chancellor Ray Belton, announced $7.62 million in funding for the Southern University Ravine Protection project in East Baton Rouge Parish.
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. – Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. released the following statement after the heinous shooting in his district at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, LA.
“Today there was another senseless loss of life to gun violence at the Morris Jeff graduation taking place on Xavier’s campus.”
“This must stop!”
“We cannot be a community divided on this issue. It’s time for federal, state, and local partners to join together to find real solutions. This is an issue of life!”
NEW ORLEANS —
After news broke April 23 of three kids swept away by the Mississippi River's current, emotions overwhelmed U.S. Rep. Troy Carter.
Carter is from Algiers, where the kids — 8-year-old Ally Wilson-Berry, 14-year-old Brandy Wilson and 15-year-old Kevin Poole — lived. As a child, he occasionally dipped into the river, just like those kids did, underestimating the river's might.
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. -- Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. released the following statement in response to President Biden’s Executive Order on police reform, actions announced on the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. – Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. released the following statement after the terrible attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that killed at least 21 people, including 19 students under the age of ten.
Congressman Troy Carter accompanied US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on her trip to Louisiana Tuesday, touring the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Bayou Choctaw and GE’s Wind Turbine facility at the Michoud Assembly in New Orleans. Carter said it’s important to show how Louisiana is using resources to create green energy.
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— The Mississippi is the lifeblood of our region and a significant economic engine. But the last 3 weeks have shown that this river can be very dangerous to people that live nearby.
The loss of 3 young lives to the dangerous currents prompted Congressman Troy Carter to propose an amendment hoping to get the Army Corps of Engineers to improve safety along the banks of the Mississippi.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the two members from Louisiana on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D, LA-02) and Congressman Garret Graves (R, LA-06) partnered to successfully advance several bipartisan amendments and funding priorities in the markup of the Water Resources and Development Act of 2022 (WRDA).