WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed the Save the Liberty Theatre Act, which Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) introduced in the Senate and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) introduced in the House. The bill...
Kennedy introduces bill to help small-sized companies trade more efficiently on stock market
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), today introduced the Intelligent Tick Study Act to require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to look at the economic impact that trading in...
Kennedy urges Biden administration to end UN’s bias against Israel
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined more than 60 other senators in urging the Biden administration to end the bias against Israel expressed in the United Nations Human Rights...
Kennedy announces $3.5 million for Louisiana flood alert system
MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $3,495,473 in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for a regional...
Kennedy meets with local officials in southeast Louisiana to discuss storm recovery efforts
ARABI, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) met with St. Bernard Parish president Guy McInnis, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann and St. Bernard Parish Director of Homeland Security John Rahaim...
Kennedy announces $27.6 million in Laura, Ida relief for Louisiana
MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $27,629,733 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants in disaster aid...
Kennedy, Judiciary Republicans urge Jackson to provide information on lenient sentencing of sex offender
MADISONVILLE, La. – Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and the other Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today sent a letter asking Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to...
Kennedy urges FEMA to waive rent payments for southwest Louisiana disaster victims
MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) today urged Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell to...
Kennedy, Inhofe introduce bill to protect Medicaid recipients
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) in introducing the Protecting Medicaid Beneficiaries Act to expand existing safeguards for Medicaid. “The...
Kennedy, Shaheen introduce bipartisan bill to improve rural broadband in Louisiana
WASHINGTON – Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced the bipartisan Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Enhancement Act to address the lack...