On a 225-204 vote the U-S House approved House Majority Leader and Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise’s Lower Energy Costs Act which he says will increase oil and gas production in the United States, instead of begging other countries to produce more oil…
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But Democrats oppose the legislation, they call it the polluters over people act. The legislation is not expected to pass the Democratic controlled Senate.

Senator John Kennedy spent 30 minutes this week on the Senate floor discussing New Orleans crime problem and calling on the N-O-P-D to institute a stop and frisk policy. He says many other police departments use it…
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Opponents to stop and frisk say it leads to racial profiling.

Governor Edwards is voicing his opposition to the death penalty over concerns of executing a person that may actually be innocent and because of his Catholic beliefs. There is a bill in the upcoming legislative session to end the death penalty, but ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says with a new governor coming in next year, conservative lawmakers would rather pass this issue on to the next governor…
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Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator says a school resource officer at Southwood High School arrested a 19-year-old student after a fully loaded gun was found in his backpack…
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Prator says the officer searched the student’s backpack after he threatened to kill a coach who told him to stop vaping in the school.