Cajun Conservatism
Landry argues that Edwards’ action violates constitutional provisions that give lawmakers the power to enact laws rather than the governor. The attorney general suggests the rulemaking process outlined in state law that allows a governor to override a legislative rejection of a regulatory proposal is unconstitutional.
Read more: AG Landry Sues Governor Over Vaccine Mandate
The latest iteration of Build Back Better — the president’s multi-trillion-dollar tax-and-spending binge that has been stalled in Congress all year — purports to reduce the cost of prescription drugs via negotiation.
Medicare prescription drug plans already negotiate prices aggressively. As Obama’s CBO director Doug Elmendorf explained back in 2009: “Additional authority to negotiate for lower drug prices would have little, if any, effect on prices for the same reason that my predecessors have explained, which is that private drug plans are already negotiating drug prices.”
So how can Democrats extract the $250 billion they are counting on draining from Medicare drug spending to fund the creation of new, unrelated welfare programs in Build Back Better? They don’t negotiate — they impose price controls.
Read more: Drug price controls would hurt seniors
Jeff Landry is the Conservative Voice our state
needs during times like this.
Judge Terry Doughty of the Monroe division of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Louisiana issued the ruling blocking the mandate, which would have applied to the more than 10 million U.S. healthcare workers who are employees of facilities that take money from Medicare and Medicaid. CMS estimated that roughly 2.4 million of those workers remain unvaccinated.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and the attorneys general of 13 other states sued the Biden administration over the rule earlier this month.
Read more: Federal judge blocks COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers challenged by Jeff Landry
“Lease sales generate millions and millions of dollars dedicated to environmental protection projects,” Landry said in a news release.
Landry led a coalition of 13 states that sued the administration after President Joe Biden suspended new leases for oil-and-gas drilling and fracking on federal lands and waters upon taking office in January.
A federal judge sided with Landry in June, allowing lease sales to continue while the issue remains in litigation.
Read more: Landry: Oil and Gas Lease Sale Could Deliver $100M to Louisiana
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questions Saule Omarova, nominee for Comptroller of the Currency
From Congressman Clay Higgins’ Facebook page:
2100 pages of socialist legislation. A bill that devours your children’s future, and their children as well. Generations yet unborn will suffer under the weight of this oppression.
The Democrats will pass this legislation tonight through the House. Despite months of battle… although I fought against these bills with everything I had… the left will get this monstrosity passed tonight, all on their own, because Republicans in the Senate and the House helped them pass the so called infrastructure bill last week. That bill was the gateway for this one.
America is imperiled from within. I’m in the fight my Brothers and Sisters. Over the coming weeks, I’ll work with a handful of actual Constitutionalists in the Senate, and We will try to stop this thing over there.
God put me in this fight for a reason. I’m not giving up. I will not kneel.
Jeff Landry is at it again!
After Biden illegally halted the sale of Oil & Gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, our state's Attorney General swooped into action. He instantly sued the Biden Administration for their overreach and ABUSE of Presidential Power! After a hard fought battle in court, today a Federal Court ruled in favor of Landry and allowed the lease sale to go through!
This is a win for our state, our nation, and job creators across the country who work every day to provide goods and services.
“Despite Joe Biden’s aggressive, reckless abuse of Presidential power to ban domestic energy development – we have delivered a victory for American families suffering from the pain at the pump and the cost to power their homes,” - Attorney General Jeff Landry
Joe Biden may not understand the importance of the Oil & Gas industry to hardworking, everyday Americans, but it's good to see that Jeff Landry does!
Thank you to AG Jeff Landry for giving Louisiana another WIN!
The largest federal offshore drilling auction in U.S. history, in which oil companies can bid for lucrative waters, is scheduled to take place in New Orleans on Wednesday—five days after the end of the summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
The sale—Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 257—involves 80 million acres, or around 125,000 square miles, an area big enough to fit in all but five U.S. states. By comparison, New Mexico's land area covers about 121,300 square miles.
Read more: U.S. To Sell Area the Size of New Mexico For Offshore Drilling Just 5 Days After COP26
Mitch Landrieu serves as strategic adviser to the United States China Heartland Association, which supports cultural and business exchange between China and 20 states in the American heartland. The association frequently partners with Chinese Communist Party front groups that operate abroad.
Read more: Biden Infrastructure Czar Advises Pro-China Group
BATON ROUGE, LA (November 15, 2021) – On Wednesday, November 17th, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold Lease Sale 257, the first federal land leasing event of the year.
In the early days of his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order that banned new federal leasing permits for drilling. On June 15th, after months of legal battles led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily reversed the moratorium while litigation remained in progress.
In response to the upcoming lease sale, Louisiana Oil & Gas Association President Mike Moncla released a statement earlier this afternoon:
"On behalf of the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association, I want to thank Attorney General Jeff Landry for his strong, capable leadership that helped make this lease sale possible.
While the oil and gas industry focuses on creating jobs and fostering economic investment in Louisiana, President Biden and the Democrats continue to promote harmful regulations that hurt American families.
This lease sale is an important victory, not only for the 250,000+ oil and gas workers in the state but for every American who is facing high energy costs as a result of our diminished oil and gas supply.
We look forward to working with Attorney General Landry as we continue our opposition to the Biden administration’s failed energy policies that undermine our nation's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
BOEM will begin publicly reading the lease bids at 9:00 AM at their office in New Orleans.
At the same time, Attorney General Landry will be holding a press conference outside of the BOEM building to discuss the lease sale and the ongoing litigation over the moratorium.
This week, Democratic lawmakers released the broad outlines of a deal negotiated between moderates and liberals to include prescription drug pricing provisions in the reconciliation bill. NTU raised immediate concerns with the early details of the deal, warning that the proposals could negatively affect patients, taxpayers, and the U.S. health care sector broadly.
Lawmakers released legislative text for the proposals on November 3.
Read more: Analyzing the New Prescription Drug Pricing Proposal For Reconciliation
The following piece from Breitbart shows that our own Sen. Bill Cassidy can be easily bought off to sell out both his country and his state when he voted for this “infrastructure bill”.
A total of 32 House and Senate Republicans helped push President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package over the finish line, most of whom have been showered with campaign cash from the leading lobbying group behind the bill — the United States Chamber of Commerce.
And it seems that Cassidy is willing to sell us out for a mere $5000:
Sullivan, Blunt, Graham, Portman, McConnell, and Collins each have taken $10,000 from the U.S. Chamber PAC in recent election cycles from 2015 to this year. Cassidy, Capito, Burr, Fischer, Murkowski, and Risch have each received $5,000 from the PAC, while Grassley last received money, $1,500, from the PAC in 2016.
For someone that rode to coattails of Trump to re-election and summarily knifed him in the back shortly thereafter, it’s apparent that this “Senator” is a full swamp creature now.
Read more: Republicans Voted for Biden’s Infrastructure Bill After Securing Cash from Chamber of Commerce
When I first showed symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis, I had no idea what was going on. All of a sudden, foods that I had enjoyed my entire life were causing me intense pain and abdominal cramps. As the symptoms intensified over time, it came to feel almost like my body was betraying me.
The symptoms of my Ulcerative Colitis have since become so severe that I have started rounds of a low-grade chemotherapy treatment to try to eradicate the inflammation and ulcers in my digestive track. While this is an aggressive treatment, I am willing to do whatever it takes to get back to health.
Ulcerative Colitis currently does not have a cure. While the medications I take and the treatments I receive certainly help, I would love to be able to go out to lunch with my family and friends without triple checking the menu beforehand.
I long for the day that I am able to beat my Ulcerative Colitis, and I know that this is only possible through the hard work of our nation’s biopharmaceutical companies.
I am confused as to why some in Congress then are pushing price fixing policies like Medicare negotiation that could stifle the development of new treatments patients like me are yearning for. One estimate from the Congressional Budget Office has suggested that this legislation could mean that 60 fewer cures are developed.
I need lawmakers to support the industry that is working to find cures for patients like me. I hope our leaders stand firm in their opposition to changes to Medicare.
We need to all oppose government price fixing.
Camille Babineaux
New Iberia, LA
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“As you probably know Lafourche Parish has been asked for the last two years to sign onto the Freeport Settlement Agreement,” Chaisson wrote to Gov. John Bel Edwards after a Tuesday evening council meeting. “The Lafourche Parish Council has held several Executive Sessions during their regular meetings to discuss the settlement and has twice placed a resolution on their agenda to approve the agreement. At both meetings the resolution did not garner enough support and was eventually removed from the Council’s agenda.
“At this point I am unsure if the item will ever get the required votes to be able to pass therefore Lafourche Parish will not be signing on to the Freeport Settlement,” Chaisson said.
Read more: LAFOURCHE PARISH DECLINES TO SIGN FREEPORT MCMORAN SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
The following was provided to Cajun Conservatism by former State Senator Troy Hebert, District 22, consisting of Iberia and St. Martin Parishes:
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HEADS UP!!! IBERIA-ST. MARTIN
The only thing dark politics is afraid of is light. So here is a little sunshine!
WHAT?
The powers that be have a plan to reapportion State Senate District 22 that will diminish our voting strength in Iberia and St. Martin Parishes and move the power base to Lafayette Parish. For the last fifty plus years the Senator has come from either Iberia or St. Martin Parish. Under this new district the Senator will either come from Lafayette Parish or be beholden to Lafayette Parish.
HOW?
This plan will carve out and dissect large sections of voters in Iberia/St. Martin and give them to other Senators from surrounding areas. They will replace them with voters from Lafayette parish, in particular Broussard and Youngsville, thereby diluting our voting strength tremendously. For decades, 95% of Senate District 22 was Iberia/ St. Martin Parishes only. This guaranteed us our own Senator.
WHY?
This secret plan has been developed to favor a certain senate candidate that will be more favorable to Lafayette Parish than other candidates who’s allegiance is only to Iberia/ St. Martin. They will hide behind and say that the 2020 population has shifted. Yet, the fact is the population in Iberia(70k) and St. Martin (53k) has just the right amount of people to support a senate district which needs to be around 120k people.
WHEN?
The legislature will go into special session in January to finalize the redistricting of the state for the next ten years according to the 2020 Census. However, before they do, the house and senate committees in charge of reapportionment are holding meetings across the state to get public input. The one for our area will be held on October 26th in Lafayette at the University of Louisiana Atchafalaya Ballroom from 5:30-8:30 pm. If you would like Iberia/St. Martin to keep it’s state senator, then you should attend this meeting or contact our local Legislative delegation and voice your objections to splitting up our state senate seat.
Former State Senator Troy Hebert
Former Lt. Gov. Scott A. Angelle was director of the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in the Trump administration.
Just last month on Labor Day we observed the significant contributions of America’s labor force. Let us call on the nation’s energy policymakers to once again unleash the innovation, inspiration, perspiration and dedication of the American energy worker to help reduce gasoline prices, lower inflation and favor climate-advantaged production from the United States over often less climate-advanced production from foreign sources.
Building Back Better is only attainable with energy made possible by American energy workers.
Read more: Scott Angelle: Joe Biden's energy policy a twofer, raising prices and insulting energy workers
