Honorable Charles Boustany
United States Representative, Louisiana, Republican
Representative Boustany, of the Seventh District of Louisiana, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004. From 1990 until 2004, he was a practicing heart surgeon. He sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he is Vice Chairman of the Water Resources Subcommittee, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Agriculture Committee. The following is from the September 15, 2005, House floor debate on H.Res. 437, to establish the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina.I rise in strong support of the resolution to create a bipartisan,…
