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 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, 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 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, 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...
No More IMF Subsidies for Dictators
This op-ed by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) first appeared in the Wall Street Journal on March 22, 2022.U.S. European Command warned a year ago that a crisis could be imminent in...
Kennedy to Jackson: You’d be okay with 28 Supreme Court justices?
Watch Kennedy’s comments here. WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her nomination hearing to become an associate justice on the U.S....
Kennedy announces $1.7 billion in hurricane disaster relief for Louisiana
Watch the senator’s comments here.WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today announced $1,737,906,000 in disaster aid for Louisiana. The relief funds come through the Department of...
ICYMI: No More IMF Subsidies for Dictators
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) penned this op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, which discusses President Biden’s decision to send Russia billions of dollars in special drawing rights....