Mary Landrieu News

So far, so good for Louisiana sugar producers. Farm bills enacted last week by House and Senate agricultural committees would keep the federal sugar program pretty much in place, continuing a minimum price of 22.9 cents per pound and limiting sugar imports.

The U.S. Inspector General's Office has agreed to hear complaints from Livingston Parish officials over the lack of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for most of the Hurricane Gustav cleanup.

Drew Dunn, right, catches a sandbag from Randy Matherne while Derek Porche grabs another bag from a truck on Bayou Gauche Sept.

According to reliable estimates, there are nearly 10 million children around the world who, if global bureaucrats would merely get out of the way, could be adopted into loving, permanent families.

Two St. John the Baptist Parish deputy sheriffs, gunned down last August in an ambush shooting in LaPace, were honored this week by thousands of police officers attending National Police Week activities here in Washington.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Friday that she will introduce legislation soon to delay implementation of a 2012 flood insurance law that is leading to sharply higher premiums for policyholders.

Five area parish presidents will gather Friday morning at the home of St. Charles Parish residents Lisa and Robert Taylor in Bayou Gauche to discuss the anticipated ramifications of the B iggert-Waters Act on local communities, and lay out a road map for fighting against the implementation of the controversial law.

The Republican Party is displaying the greatest anger. The party who has not been able to shoot straight lately in the national election is taking to the airwaves.

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu helped lead the annual "Horses on the Hill" event to rally support for banning horse slaughterhouses and the exporting of horses for slaughter in the country.

The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a farm bill that would grandfather most rural communities that are currently eligible for Rural Housing Service loans.

Wholesale change at the IRS is needed, Louisiana Republicans say, in light of disclosures that the agency targeted Tea Party and other conservative organizations for extra scrutiny.

The Senate on Wednesday put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government's main water resources law, which promotes investment in port improvements, flood protection, dam and levee projects and environmental restoration.

Louisiana is building support to overhaul portions of the Biggert-Waters Act that would impose catastrophic flood insurance premiums on residents, particularly those who live outside levee protection systems, Jefferson Parish President John Young told the Jefferson Parish Council Wednesday.

Hardly a day passes without the Republican leadership blasting a group called the Fiscal Hawks for it's own Louisiana budget fix.

An amendment aimed at halting federal flood insurance rate hikes for five years has been blocked in the U.S. Senate.

Defend Louisiana is a pro-Second Amendment initiative unveiled Monday, Jan. 28 by State Rep.

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., right, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., finish a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, after announcing a compromise on background checks that eventually failed to Senate OK.

A second Republican has jumped into the Louisiana Senate race to challenge Democratic Sen.

That's according to Democratic strategist James Carville who was in Leesville on Monday, speaking at a luncheon honoring U.S. Sen.

Environmental and fiscal deficit hawk groups teamed up Monday to criticize the water resources infrastructure bill by Sen.