Maritime
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement on the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Lease Sale 257:
“After their radical energy policies have wreaked havoc on our country, the Biden Administration was forced into re-instating this latest offshore lease sale. Offshore energy provides nearly 20% of America’s domestically produced oil and natural gas, and in this time of Democrat-created record high inflation and energy prices, it’s insane this wasn’t done sooner.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) announced that he has secured $1.5 million in the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee bill for deepening the Port Fourchon Belle Pass Channel. This funding will allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete environmental compliance and update the overall cost and dredge material disposal plans so the construction phase of the project can begin.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement regarding the rescue mission for crew members after a lift boat capsized off of Grand Isle on Tuesday:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the Port of South Louisiana a $13.4 million grant through the Port Infrastructure Development Grant program for their Globalplex Multi-Modal Connections Project.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) and Congressman Garret Graves (R-La.) made the following statements after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced which projects in Louisiana will receive critical dredging and maintenance funding from the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Act, 2019.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Reps. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), Cedric Richmond (D-La.), Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), Garret Graves (R-La.), and Clay Higgins (R-La.) in urging Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to support requests from Gulf Coast states for fishery disaster assistance. This assistance would help mitigate the impacts on seafood and recreational fishing industries throughout 2019 due to the openings of the Bonnet Carre Spillway.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and the Louisiana Congressional Delegation are calling on Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to begin taking steps to protect the Louisiana seafood and recreational fishing industries and to address the ecological impacts to Lake Pontchartrain from the damaging effects related to the openings of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in 2019.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement regarding today's meeting with President Donald Trump on the Jones Act. The Jones Act is a national security statute enacted to prevent U.S. dependence on foreign vessels and preserve a ready reserve force for times of war. Specifically, this law states that the transportation of merchandise between U.S. points is reserved for U.S. - built, owned, and documented vessels.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) delivered testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water in support of projects in Louisiana's First District that will help provide lifesaving flood protections and boost the national economy. Whip Scalise specifically discussed deepening the Mississippi River to 50-feet, flood protection in St. Tammany Parish, and the Morganaza to the Gulf hurricane and storm surge protection project in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes.