(CBS News)
Residents of the Gulf Coast are continuing to battle Tropical Storm Lee. The sturbborn, slow-moving storm dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans, and residents throughout the region are dealing with tornados and flooding.
The rain isn’t …
By Joshua Miller, Roll Call
Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany (R) raised $474,000 and had more than $1 million in cash on hand at the end of June to prepare for a likely Member-vs.-Member battle against a freshman Republican, Roll Call has …
By MARY FOSTER and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press
In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s …
By BEN EVANS, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Wednesday convicted U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana on four articles of impeachment, making him just the eighth federal judge in history to be removed by Congress.
They also approved …
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN, Politico
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wants members of Congress to stay home more often.
“We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let’s pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.,” Jindal said in an …
Redstate.com
In Saturday’s Republican primary runoff for the Third Congressional District, attorney and businessman Jeff Landry defeated Hunt Downer. Landry had fallen 160 votes short of securing a primary victory, netting 49.6% of the vote four weeks ago. (The …
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) scored a resounding victory in his primary Saturday, overcoming a 2007 prostitution scandal and cruising to a huge victory over former state Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor.
In the other state holding a primary …
Rasmussen Reports
Louisiana’s race for the U.S. Senate looks largely the same way it has since the beginning of the year, with incumbent Republican David Vitter continuing to earn over 50% of the vote in a state with unusually high Tea …
Compiled from InsiderAdvantage and Southern Political Report staff
The Republican establishment favourite, Mitt Romney, secured a surprise victory over the American right’s grassroots choice Sarah Palin at the …
By: Jennifer Haberkorn, Washtingtontimes.com
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu on Thursday tried to quell critics who accused her of making a backroom deal to secure $300 million in Medicaid funding for Louisiana in the Senate’s health care reform bill.
“Nothing about this effort …
