Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446, which impose new restrictions on firearm purchases and infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.
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.
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 Trade to announce and execute a U.S.-specific rice tender under the terms of the U.S.-Iraq Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Since the first MOU was signed in 2016, the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that FEMA will award $2,144,867.45 for flood mitigation efforts in Iberia Parish. The hazard mitigation grant will be used to finance the elevation of 15 repetitive loss and severe repetitive loss properties.
Congressman Higgins issued the following statement:
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 1280, Democrats’ misguided police reform bill.
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 calling on the Governor to implement additional state-level reforms to support oil and gas jobs.
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 COVID-19 public health response efforts. Some of the most egregious funding items include:
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 Cooperative for power restoration efforts in response to Hurricane Laura.
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 hurricane recovery efforts in South Louisiana by: