WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Congressman Rick Crawford (R-AR) led a bipartisan letter to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Matthew Tueller, urging him to work with Iraq's Minister of...
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Higgins Votes Against $1.9T Budget Reconciliation Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against the Senate amendment to Democrats' $1.9 trillion budget reconciliation package."Democrats are...
Higgins Calls on Governor Edwards to Fully Reopen Louisiana
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter today to Governor John Bel Edwards urging him to fully reopen Louisiana's economy and cease all state-level COVID-19 mandates.The...
Higgins Votes Against Democrats’ Partisan Policing Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 1280, Democrats' misguided police reform bill."Democrats' anti-police bill would legislate...
Higgins Commends Edwards’ Letter to Biden, Calls for State-Level Reforms in Support of Oil and Gas Jobs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter today to Governor John Bel Edwards commending him for pushing back against the Biden administration's job-killing energy policies and...
Higgins Introduces Disaster Recovery Amendments to Budget Reconciliation Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) is introducing two disaster recovery amendments to House Democrats' $1.9 trillion budget reconciliation package. The amendments would support...
Higgins Announces Over $33M for Debris Removal, Utility Repairs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that FEMA will award $14,168,295 to the City of Sulphur for debris removal operations and $19,211,022 to Jefferson Davis Electric...
Higgins Will Vote Against $1.9T Budget Reconciliation Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced that he will vote against Democrats' $1.9 trillion budget reconciliation package. Less than 9% of the $1.9 trillion will be used for...
Higgins Announces Flood Mitigation Funds for Erath
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that FEMA will award $2,232,261 for flood mitigation efforts in Erath. The hazard mitigation grant will be used to finance the...
Louisiana GOP Rep. Higgins challenges Biden ‘to live without oil & gas’
Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins floated an environmental challenge to President Biden Tuesday – introducing a House resolution calling on the commander-in-chief to live without any petroleum...
Congressman Higgins challenges Biden Administration to stop using oil and gas products
Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins has filed a resolution challenging the Biden Administration to operate without the use of any oil and gas energy or petroleum-based products. In doing so, Higgins...
State gets boost in federal cost-share for hurricanes
President Joe Biden on Monday approved a request by Gov. John Bel Edwards to increase the federal cost-share for FEMA public assistance programs in response to Hurricane Laura from 75 to 90...
Higgins Challenges Biden to Live Without Oil & Gas, Petroleum-Based Products
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) has introduced H. Res. 149, a resolution challenging the Biden administration to operate the White House without using any oil and gas energy or...
Higgins Announces Increased Federal Assistance for Hurricane Laura Recovery
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that President Biden has approved a 90/10 cost-share adjustment for FEMA Public Assistance programs in response to Hurricane...
Higgins, Krishnamoorthi Introduce Bipartisan Fixing America’s Bridges Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) are reintroducing the bipartisan Fixing America's Bridges Act, which would reestablish a federal funding...
‘The Worst of Times’: Biden’s Keystone XL Cancellation Means Job Losses and a Host of Other Problems
The Biden administration's recent cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline has shaken an entire industry and may cost thousands of workers their jobs. Some of those workers are already facing sudden...
Democrats Consider Piecemeal Approach to Immigration Bills
Democrats in Congress and progressive advocates are coalescing around a strategy to try to pass immigration bills piecemeal, as the Biden administration looks for ways to enact a pathway to...
Higgins Slams Biden’s Amnesty Proposal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after President Biden and Congressional Democrats released a legislative proposal that would provide over 11 million...
Higgins Introduces Pro-Energy, Pro-Law Enforcement Amendments to Budget Reconciliation Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) introduced three amendments today that would prevent COVID relief funds from being used to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Accords,...