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Republican U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, Louisiana's only woman in Congress whose influence continues to grow in Washington, has opened a district office back home in the state's capital city to reflect the new boundaries that frame her 5th Congressional District.
Letlow's Baton Rouge office is at 7932 Wrenwood Blvd., Suite C. She continues to operate her district offices in Monroe and Hammond.
OUACHITA PARISH, La. (KNOE) - Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow is pushing for the Ouachita River to be designated as part of the United States Marine Highway Program.
Letlow’s office announced the congresswoman asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to designate the 605 mile-long Ouachita River as Marine Hwy. 165.
The USMH Program, administered by the Maritime Administration, works to find ways to better utilize America’s waterways.
MONROE, La. - Congresswoman Julia Letlow announced a legislative proposal meant to improve disaster relief programs for forest landowners.
Letlow introduced the Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act in response to the 2023 Louisiana Wildfires that burned more than 60,000 acres of forest land.
The legislation adds on to existing programs within the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 — the Emergency Conservation Program and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP).
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 kits can include diapers, wipes, formula, and breastfeeding pumps. The initiative launched two years ago targeting three states -- Arkansas, New Mexico, and Louisiana -- because of their poverty and maternal mortality rates.
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.
His widow Republican Congresswoman Julia Letlow now represents the 5th District.
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).
During a school trip to Capitol Hill, students from Neville met with Congresswoman Julia Letlow. Letlow shared her experiences and gave the students advice on how to find purpose after tragedy.
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.
“This is really just encouraging government agencies to produce those studies so we have the data to back up that parents are struggling –- that they need this childcare.”
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 parents more oversight of what is taught in public schools.