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In a meeting with Citizens for Highways & Infrastructure in Livingston Parish, Cassidy discussed solutions for our region's transportation needs and ways to combat the traffic congestion that inhibits economic activity.  Read more...

The Livingston Parish News reports on Cassidy's Town Hall Meeting in Walker, where he explained his limited government, pro-growth principles and heard from citizens about the issues that are important to our region. Read more...

The Baton Rouge Advocate reports on Cassidy's meeting with the West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, where he discussed how federal deficits, taxes, and regulation are preventing economic growth and job creation.  At the meeting, Cassidy was presented with the Chamber's "Spirit of Enterprise Award," which is given to lawmakers who have a record of standing up for free enterprise and advancing pro-growth economic policies. Read more...

Citizens Against Government Waste, one of the nation’s premier government spending watchdogs, named Louisiana Congressman Bill Cassidy a ‘Taxpayer Hero’ for his record of “standing shoulder-to-shoulder with taxpayers and working to cut wasteful federal spending and taxes.” Read more...

In an OpEd published in the Washington Examiner, Rep. Bill Cassidy asks why his amendment to create a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the BP oil spill, which passed unanimously in the Natural Resources Committee, was stripped from the bill by Speaker Pelosi. Read more...

In an OpEd published in The Hill, Rep. Bill Cassidy explains that the CLEAR Act, which is billed as a response to the oil spill, "has much less to do with preventing another spill than it does preventing domestic energy production and destroying jobs." Read more...

"The Sunlight Foundation lauds Senators Coburn (R-OK), Feingold (D-WI), Gillibrand (D-NY) and McCain (R-AZ) in the Senate and Representatives Cassidy (R-LA) and Speier (D-CA) in the House for introducing landmark legislation today that would require Congress to create an online, searchable database for all earmark requests." Read more...