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BATON ROUGE – Federal disaster aid remains elusive because of political gamesmanship in Washington as Louisiana residents struggle through Hurricane Ida’s lasting impacts and the remaining effects of natural disasters dating to last hurricane season.
After visiting New Orleans and other hard-hit areas of southeast Louisiana following Hurricane Ida, President Joe Biden agreed to request supplemental recovery aid from Congress. The request also included long-sought assistance for southwest Louisiana, which has endured four declared natural disasters since August 2020.
Small business advocates and economic-improvement organizations focusing on economic development within disadvantaged New Orleans communities echoed the thoughts of Congressman Troy Carter, who wrote a letter to the heads of FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pressing the federal agencies to include small, local, disadvantaged business enterprises (DEBs) in the post-Hurricane Ida rebuilding process.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. voted to pass $28.6 billion in disaster recovery funds, including billions for Louisiana to recover from hurricanes Ida and Laura. He spoke on the House Floor in support of the measure and delivered the following remarks:
“I stand in support of this CR.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. joined his colleagues in righting the injustices of the past and voted to pass the EQUAL Act. This legislation will finally eliminate the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses, a arbitrary differentiation that has fueled mass incarceration and enormous racial disparities. |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States Department of Justice indicted a former Louisiana State Police trooper on a federal civil rights charge for using excessive force on a Black motorist in 2019.
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What happened: Infrastructure wasn't the only part of the White House’s Hill outreach Wednesday. A group of Congressional Black Caucus members met with White House officials to discuss the treatment of Haitian migrants, Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty said.
“We were able to express our concern for people who look like us. We had not seen the horses and the whips with any other population of people so that to us goes to racism."
— CBC Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty