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Shreveport, La. - The recent budget agreement in Washington D.C increases the military's budget.
Money will go to Barksdale Air Force Base to upgrade B-52 bombers and increase the troop size at Folk Polk.
Congressman Ralph Abraham said he supports giving a 2.4-percent pay raise to troops.
On the day when Governor John Bel Edwards took center stage at the capitol and opened the special legislative session, Congressman Ralph Abraham decided to take a swipe at him while speaking to the Baton Rouge Press club
“For me it boils down to something simple," Abraham said. "The thing that I hear more and more than anything else is a lack of trust.”
The US House of Representatives held a hearing to discuss future adaptations and how it can begin implementing the technology.
There are exceptions, of course: Louisiana congressman Ralph Abraham was a family physician, as was Tennessee congressman Scott DesJarlais. The two Democrats, Ami Bera and Raul Ruiz, both of California, are respectively a general practitioner, which sits at the bottom of the pay scale, and an emergency medicine specialist, which earns a middling salary.
Louisiana farmer Ted Schneider has been elected president of Cotton Council International, the export marketing and promotion arm of the National Cotton Council.
Louisiana farmers planted 200,000 acres of cotton last year, a 43 percent jump over 2016.
Seventeen sailors died last summer after the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S.
Congress approved a spending bill that reopened the federal government after a brief shutdown over the night. Louisiana's delegation voted three to five against accepting the budget deal.
Recent labeling of some "fake rice" products has led to worries about consumer confusion at the grocery store. Freezer sections often contain “riced” cauliflower or other vegetables but use none of the actual grain.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following a vote Feb. 6 in the U.S. House of Representatives to provide full funding for the military and community health centers, several members of Louisiana’s delegation to Congress released statements urging members of the Senate to pass the bill.
Over Thanksgiving break, my family, party of 13, took a trip to our nation’s capital: Washington, D.C. Weeks before departure, my grandmother had already sent out a mass email containing our itinerary, full of travel plans, meals, and tours. Upon receiving this email, I worried the trip might lack spontaneity and even be a little boring; however, I was wrong.