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WASHINGTON, DC – Fighting to declare the President’s health care law unconstitutional, Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) joined 48 fellow Congressmen – including Speaker John Boehner and Leader Eric Cantor – and the American Center for Law and Justice in filing an amicus brief in support of Virginia's lawsuit challenging Obamacare.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressmen Tim Huelskamp (Republican, KS-01) and Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) with 42 fellow GOP House members sent a letter to the President condemning President Obama’s decision to not enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

NEW IBERIA, LA – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of Obamacare:

NEW IBERIA, LA – Two weeks after he received a commitment from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Chief Engineer, Lt. Gen. Van Antwerp, to look into removing a sunken barge in the Charenton Canal – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) renewed his call on the Corps to remove the barge.

NEW IBERIA, LA – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) has joined the Values Action Team (VAT), a pro-life/pro-family Congressional coalition.

NEW IBERIA, LA – Congressman Jeff Landry is upset with President Obama for comments he made this weekend at the CEO Business Summit in Brazil.

Congressman Jeff Landry is co-sponsoring a bill which he says could help "to end President Obama's regulatory barriers that are strangling job creation and economic growth."

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressmen Bill Flores (Republican, Texas) and Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) introduced legislation today that would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish more stringent deadlines and other requirements for the issuance of drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources will receive testimony from state and local officials regarding the de facto moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) released the following full statement following the President's news conference on energy prices today:

WASHINGTON, DC – Thursday (March 3rd), the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources will receive testimony from the Honorable Ken Salazar regarding the Department of Interior.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia), the House’s leading proponent of domestic oil and gas drilling, released the following statement after the Interior Department announced it approved Noble Energy’s deepwater drilling permit:

NEW IBERIA, LA – With oil toppling $100 per barrel and nearing 2-1/2 year highs, Congressman Jeff Landry is once again demanding the President to end his de facto moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) praised the House passage of H.R. 1, legislation setting government spending levels $100 billion below the President’s budget for 2011.

WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) issued the following statement after Judge Martin Feldman ordered the Obama Administration to decide within 30 days whether to grant a set of five permits for deep-water drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico:

Louisiana's congressional delegation is already haggling over plans to eliminate one of seven exisiting U-S House districts.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) - the House’s leading proponent of domestic oil and gas drilling - became one of the first freshman of the 112th Congress to have an amendment accepted into a bill.

Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) reacts to the announcement that only 36,000 new jobs created in January:

NEW IBERIA, LA – Today, Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) praised U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson’s verdict that the federal government has no constitutional authority to force Americans to purchase privately-distributed products, such as health insurance.

NEW IBERIA, LA – Amid the continuing unrest in Egypt and the speculation of a Suez Canal shutdown – causing the largest single day increase in the price of crude oil since 2009, Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) has called on the President to allow domestic oil and gas drillers to get back to work immediately in order to lower the price at the pump.