"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...
"U.S. House Republicans agreed Thursday to a one-year ban on members requesting special projects for their districts -- known as earmarks -- a move that could have a significant financial impact for Louisiana with its Republican-laden House delegation." Read more...
"The [Coastal Conservation Association] also named U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, as its Conservationist of the Year." Read more...
"Americans have rejected health care proposals advanced in the House and Senate because they will not lower costs. It is my experience working in a public hospital that when costs are out of control, access to quality care suffers. This is also the experience of Britain's National Health Service and Health Canada. Unless costs are lowered, it is impossible to provide universal access to quality care without bankrupting the country. To lower costs, empower patients." Read more...
"On 'Washington Unplugged' Thursday, Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La ., told Bob Shieffer that 'Republicans were more sensitive to interest of cost' concerning health care reform than Democrats, and that the American people want 'cost containment.'" Read more...
"US Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) urged House Natural Resources Committee leaders to schedule hearings on the economic costs of continued delays in offshore oil and gas development a week after the first major report on the subject was released." Read more...
"Congress could pass these ten reforms by a wide margin tomorrow. They won't achieve the left's statist ambitions, but they would provide meaningful reform." Read more...
"In his first State of the Union address, Obama called on Congress 'to publish all earmark requests on a single website before there's a vote so that the American people can see how their money is being spent.' An effort to do so last year faltered, but the strong endorsement has lifted the spirits of the two lawmakers most associated with the idea, Reps. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)." Read more...
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