David Vitter News

The discussion regarding Louisiana GOP, David Vitter and Congressman Vance McAllister has been in the news over the past two weeks and on a WGSO-Bayoubuzz Google Hangout Webcast, the issue was raised by Jeff Crouere during the radio-webcast broadcast: Crouere: Next with us, Steve Sabludowsky, publisher of Bayoubuzz.com, is joining us.

Hope for McAllister? The news is not all bad for Republican 5th District U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister, whose recent marital misdeed of kissing a staffer in his Monroe office is getting mixed reactions from his constituents.

Of the 432 members today serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, he is 429th in seniority, having won a special election barely five months ago.

Under the EPA proposed new Waters of the U.S. rule, not one single acre in America is safe from the exact kind of federal trooper confrontation which took place this past week in Bunkerville, Nevada.

In this Nov. 2013, photo newly-elected Rep. Vance McAllister, a Republican of Louisiana, waits to be sworn in at the Capitol in Washington.

U.S. horse slaughter inspections, conducted by USDA agents, was not funded in this year's federal spending bill.

This is probably the best-kept secret in Central Louisiana. I discovered this recently when I delivered magazines to the Medicine Clinic, which is located in a trailer outside the gate at H.P. Long Hospital.

U.S. energy production is on the upswing despite a decline in exploration on public lands that critics claim is slowing the nation's economic progress.

Of the 432 members today serving in the House of Representatives , he is 429th in seniority, having won a special election barely five months ago.

In a photo taken Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for newly-elected Rep. Vance McAllister, a Republican of Louisiana as his wife Kelly watches at center, at the Capitol in Washington.

While it might not have come as a surprise that LAGOP Chairman Roger Villere and Gov. Bobby Jindal have called for McAllister's resignation after the now infamous kissing video, many have questioned where the party was when David Vitter's name was found on the calling list of an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Vitter was not asked to resign, and ... (more)

The search for a new transportation bill has passed a key milepost in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee .

IRS SEES RECORD NUMBER OF ELECTRONIC TAX FILINGS. Say goodbye to the days of super-jammed post offices with customers waiting for hours on end to file their taxes at the eleventh hour on April 15. They're fading fast.

U.S. Sens. David Vitter, R-La., Thad Cochran, R-Miss., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., co-authored a letter Thursday to FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate asking him to explain why property owners are still paying high insurance rates despite the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act.

One of the top political stories to come out of the past week was the resignation of Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who led the rollout of the new health care marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., listens as Chuck Adams with Tempco Insulation voices his concerns regarding the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday.

The Regulatory Fairness Act, S. 2156 , would prohibit the EPA "from preemptively or retroactively vetoing a permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act," according to the Cordova Times .

The vote was 95-1 for McSweeny with David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, voting against her nomination.

Since the Congressman Vance McAllister kissing bomb went off last week, the nation's attention has been on Monroe, Louisiana and the fifth congressional district.

The following diaries are examples of this week's Election Diary Rescue. This post features a collection of 28 diaries.