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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
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) met with senior White House officials on Wednesday and called for the suspension of border patrol agents photographed on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants near the southern border town of Del Rio, Texas.
Hurricane-battered Louisiana’s congressional delegation is divided over Democrats’ package to avert a government shutdown, raise the nation’s legal debt limit, and allocate nearly $30 billion in emergency aid responding to Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters.
Louisiana will need at least $2.5 billion in federal assistance to help its residents rebuild their homes and recover after Hurricane Ida, Gov. John Bel Edwards wrote Monday in a letter to Congress, urging support for disaster relief legislation.
The Democratic governor traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with lawmakers as deliberations heat up over a stopgap spending bill that includes $28.6 billion in funding for communities hammered over the last two years by natural disasters ranging from hurricanes to wildfires.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. joined his colleagues to pass H.R. 5306, The Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act. This bill contains crucial funding for Louisiana disaster recovery for the state to rebuild from Hurricane Ida and other recent disasters. This is part of a bigger package funding the government and suspending the debt ceiling. |
When the Louisiana Legislature meets next February 1, 2022 to finalize new maps of state house, senate and congressional districts, neither the Republican-controlled legislature nor Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards will automatically have the upper hand. The legislature will propose the maps but Governor Edwards must sign them into law. Hence, there will be plenty of negotiations along the way.
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The nation’s Housing and Urban Development chief spent the day in the New Orleans area touring Hurricane Ida damage.
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge first stopped at Westminster Tower, a residential complex for senior citizens in Kenner, a suburb just outside the city of New Orleans.