Thank you so much. Thank you for all that you are doing for Louisiana. You are changing the landscape of our State, and eventually the country.

Today I rise to honor the life of a truly remarkable gentleman, Mr. Ray Young. Mr. Ray was born in Hico, Louisiana, in 1929 and grew up no stranger to hard work or getting his hands dirty on his family's farm. Building a successful…

Today my community is hurting. They are mourning the loss of Tarver Mickel Braddock, a student athlete at Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana, who left an indelible mark on everyone who knew him. Tarver was known for his contagious…

To be hit with GPO later on is absolutely abhorrent, and I am sorry that you had to go through that.

It is the number one issue I hear about from my constituents.

Thank you to Congressman Garrett Graves for leading H.R. 82. We are encouraged that we are going to get that across the finish line this Congress.

What are we saying to those people when we are robbing them of what is rightfully theirs?

It is absolutely unfair, and it is--it must be righted.

In honor of Veterans Day, I would like to take the time to recognize one of our very own veterans from the Fifth District of Louisiana. Mr. Gerald McClellan, a resident of Pineville, Louisiana, is a retired Master Sergeant E-8 of the…

I stand before you to honor an extraordinary individual who has dedicated over 50 years of his life to public service in the great State of Louisiana. That person is my good friend, State representative Francis Thompson, the longest…

Earlier this week we passed H. Res. 363 that I proudly introduced with Representative Michael Guest memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. I join 110 of my colleagues recognizing and commemorating the ultimate…

My home State of Louisiana is responsible for over 60 percent of LNG produced and exported from the United States.

What is the Department of Energy doing to facilitate the export of American LNG to our allies?

I am afraid that the budget you are advocating for today picks winners and losers.

There is a crisis with American energy independence, and our country must cut back on its reliance on foreign oil.

The longer we wait to fund these projects, the more expensive they will be for the taxpayers.

We must increase the domestic production of energy.

The United States has the opportunity and the responsibility to enact policies that could support the export of American LNG to our partners.

I represent 24 parishes in Louisiana who are mostly rural, and so my heart is definitely with our rural communities.

What I hear from them overwhelmingly is that they know that the federal funds are there.

As a member of this subcommittee, I would love to work with HRSA in investing in the health of the nearly 10 million people residing in the Delta region.

I am gravely concerned about our kids.

I think this legislation received a false narrative that we were going to be dictating curriculum.

Those programs include the Maternal Mental Health Hotline, the Innovation for Maternal Health, and the Screening and Treatment for Maternal Depression.

I am particularly interested in RMOMS program and how that works in conjunction.