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BATON ROUGE -- Woman's Hospital in Louisiana is now the sixth recipient in the state to distribute Maternal Health and Newborn Supply Kits.
These kits are part of the Maternal Health and Newborn Supply Kit program, a joint venture between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Baby2Baby, a non-profit.
The Rayville Post Office will be renamed in honor of the late Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow after President Joe Biden signed into law a bill for the memorial. Letlow won a landslide election to represent Louisiana's 5th Congressional District in 2020 but died of COVID before he could be seated.
RAYVILLE, La. (KNOE) - UPDATE 5:23 p.m. According to Congresswoman Julia Letlow, the bill to rename the Rayville post office building in honor of Luke Letlow has passed the House of Representatives. The representative says the bill received unanimous bipartisan votes in honor of her late husband, Congressman-elect Letlow.
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Tarver Braddock, the Neville High School student who tragically died in a deer camp fire last week, was honored at the U.S. House today (Jan. 11).
BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow has introduced bipartisan legislation to increase access to childcare for small businesses. As a single mother herself, she says the Childcare Small Business Insight and Improvement Act will help parents across the country.
According to officials, Congresswoman Julia Letlow visited Oak Grove High School to share her story with the junior and senior girls. Letlow represents Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives and is the state’s first Republican woman elected for Congress.
WASHINGTON – Amid a national culture war in education, House Republicans on Friday narrowly passed legislation by a Louisiana congresswoman that would give paren
WASHINGTON– A former University of Louisiana Monroe administrator and professor, U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow already had the bonafides to lead the effort to pass a national “Parents Bill of Rights Act.”
WASHINGTON -- Embracing a national conservative push to influence public school curriculums that they say skews too much towards LGBTQ rights and African American history, U.S. House Republicans rallied Wednesday behind a Louisiana congresswoman's bill that could help parents circumvent courses they find objectionable.
In this week's Hot Seat, WDSU's Travers Mackel speaks with Rep. Julia Letlow on the one-year anniversary of her husband's death. Luke Letlow died from COVID-19 shortly after being elected to the 5th District seat representing Northeast and Central Louisiana. After his passing, his wife Julia ran, and won the seat, taking his place in Congress. Rep.