Honorable Garret Graves
United States Representative, Louisiana, Republican
Representative Graves, of the Sixth District of Louisiana, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. He served on the staffs of U.S. Senator John Breaux (LA-D), U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin (LA-R), U.S. Senator David Vitter (LA-R), the Senate Commerce Committee,theSenateScienceandTransportationCommittee,andtheHouseEnergyandCommerce Committee. He was Vice Chair of the U.S. Environment al Protection Agency’s Gulf Coast EcosystemRestorationTaskForce.ThefollowingisfromtheJanuary13,2016,Housefloordebate on S.J.Res. 22, providing for congressional disapproval of the rule relating to the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. We are here today because the Supreme Court in 2001 and again in 2006…
