Mark Ballard
Baton Rouge Advocate
10, LA, United States
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First Lady Jill Biden to visit New Orleans, Sen. Bill Cassidy to join
WASHINGTON – First Lady Jill Biden is making her first trip to Louisiana Friday and visiting the Louisiana Cancer Research Center in New Orleans, the White House announced Tuesday. → Read More
Steve Scalise awed by Abraham Lincoln
WASHINGTON – U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise spends a lot of time trash-talking Democratic President Joe Biden. → Read More
Bill Cassidy criticizes handling of flood insurance prices
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy took to the Senate floor Monday afternoon to complain about changes to the national flood insurance program. → Read More
Troy Carter and Black caucus still looking for police accountability
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Troy Carter couldn’t help but think back to Antoinette Frank last week when the Congressional Black Caucus brought family members of victims killed while in police → Read More
White House aide from Louisiana steps down
WASHINGTON – With a baby on the way and wrung out from seven-day work weeks, White House aide Zach Butterworth, of New Orleans, left his job Friday. → Read More
Advocates, members of Congress criticize court ruling giving guns to domestic abusers
WASHINGTON – Advocates, prosecutors and lawmakers fear a recent federal appeals court decision that allows domestic abusers to keep their guns rather than give them up while they are covered → Read More
Ronald Greene's mother to attend State of the Union address Tuesday night as Carter guest
WASHINGTON – A focus on Black motorists killed by police following the recent deadly incident in Memphis, Tennessee, led to Ronald Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, being invited to sit in → Read More
Polls show public questioning the nation's leadership amid economic worries
When the 118th Congress began Jan. 3, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, the Jefferson Republican who sets the agenda for the lower chamber, said a dozen or so bills were being → Read More
Which Louisiana representative sits on oil and gas committee? No one for 2023.
WASHINGTON — For the first time in generations, Louisiana won’t have a representative on the U.S. House committee that oversees oil and gas matters. → Read More
This year's Washington Mardi Gras thought to be most popular ever
WASHINGTON — Louisiana lawmakers, lobbyists, and business executives headed home Sunday — many to participate in a special session that starts Monday — from what organizers privately surmise was the → Read More
Steve Scalise and GOP target spending, but what could — and actually would — be cut?
WASHINGTON — Front and center this past week and for the next few months will be raising the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt limit to allow the federal government to borrow → Read More
Gayle Benson seeks help for St. Louis Cathedral, wants direct flights from MSY to Paris
WASHINGTON – Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson had breakfast Friday with the French ambassador to the United States to seek help with restoring St. Louis Cathedral and to push → Read More
Louisiana governor candidates hobnob, seek campaign money at the Washington Mardi Gras
WASHINGTON – Candidates in the race for Louisiana governor have descended on Washington Mardi Gras to raise money and make their pitches to the state’s political and business elite in → Read More
Does word of new congressional post for Garret Graves end talk about a run for governor?
WASHINGTON — Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves, who is frequently being named as a possible candidate for governor, was linked Thursday to a GOP leadership post that some say may → Read More
Some start Washington Mardi Gras at the White House
WASHINGTON – Fourteen Louisiana mayors, legislators and community leaders were invited to the White House Wednesday to kick off Washington Mardi Gras. → Read More
Louisiana takes another swipe at more federal offshore cash
WASHINGTON — State and local government officials from across Louisiana are heading to the Washington Mardi Gras this week and their top question for the state’s congressional delegation is “what → Read More
Abolish income taxes? Idea gains traction in Congress, being studied in Louisiana Legislature
WASHINGTON — Seeming to come out of left field, President Joe Biden last week blasted Republicans for pushing legislation that would abolish federal income taxes and the Internal Revenue Service → Read More
Mayor Broome exchanges crime fighting tips with other mayors
WASHINGTON – Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome discussed ways to address crime with mayors from major cities around the nation during a whirlwind trip this week to the nation’s → Read More
Louisiana congress members played critical role in House fight over speakership
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was quietly mentioned as a candidate for the speaker of the House during the weeklong Republican fight for the chamber’s top job. → Read More
U.S. House advances two abortion-related measures
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Wednesday advanced two abortion measures that Republicans call needed protections and Democrats say would further criminalize the procedure. → Read More