Tag: Senator Bill Cassidy
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy introduces legislation to rectify long wait by crawfish processors for the final $10.6-million of the $110-million they were awarded by Congress in 2006 for frozen crawfish tails dumping by the Chinese.
The Twin Parish Port District has received a two million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for infrastructure at the Port of Delcambre. The MARAD Port Infrastructure Development Program grant will fund dock restoration on two aging structures, as well as the construction of a new industrial fabrication facility.
Congress has passed and President Obama has signed into law a year-end spending and tax deal that includes important relief for seasonal seafood, tourism and restaurant employers around the Gulf and across the country. For more than a year, the Gulf Seafood Institute has joined with dozens of small business stakeholders to fight for the fixes included in H-2B legislation which will go into effect immediately.
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