Charlie Melancon News

A new bill filed in the House would prevent insurance companies from cancelling or failing to renew homeowners' policies as a result of defective Chinese drywall in their homes.

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. Monday to discuss the insurance coverage issues consumers have encountered when their homes have defective drywall imported from China.

A Chinese drywall bill just introduced in the U.S. Congress would prohibit insurers from dropping or changing policies on homes built with tainted Chinese drywall.

With last Friday's announcement that the proposed ban on Gulf Coast raw oysters during the summer months was being put on hold, it looks like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has come to its senses.

WASHINGTON - A proposed ban on raw oysters that could be tainted with a potentially fatal bacterium has been put on hold while federal officials study how the ban would affect the Gulf Coast oyster industry.

I was absolutely mortified reading Congressman Charlie Melancon's Nov. 6 op ed in the Shreveport Times, in which Melancon exploited a young woman's personal tragedy as a rape victim for what appears to be Melancon's own political gain.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon has filed a bill to block insurance companies from canceling homeowner insurance policies for people who discover their homes contain allegedly defective Chinese drywall.

In this most-important Louisiana US Senate race, sometimes the proxies do the talking or the emailing.

Now that the U.S. House has passed a controversial health-care-reform bill, Louisiana's two senators find themselves on the hot seat.

When the Food and Drug Administration announced its plans late last month to ban the U.S. sale of raw oysters harvested during warmer months in the Gulf of Mexico, regional oystermen and connoisseurs of the shellfish alike cried foul.

Don't look now, but the 2010 Senate election in Louisiana has begun. Events over the last few weeks indicate the 2010 race will be a knockdown, mud-slinging affair .

Alfred Sunseri says not once in the 133-year-old history of his family's oyster business in Louisiana has anyone died from eating an oyster contaminated with a potentially fatal bacteria.

Raw oysters will be back on the menu next summer. Julius Steel displays a shucked raw oyster at Pascal's Manale restaurant in New Orleans on Oct.

Congress may have extended and expanded the homebuyer tax credit program last week, but concern is mounting among local real estate professionals and members of the Congressional delegation that many of the benefits may bypass Louisiana.

The government plans to ban the sale of raw oysters taken from the Gulf of Mexico in warm-water months unless the oysters are treated to destroy deadly bacteria.

Louisiana lawmakers met with top FDA officials Tuesday to protest the proposed ban on the sale of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico in warm months.

New Orleans Congressman Joseph Cao cast the sole Republican vote in favor of the sweeping health care package passed by the U.S. House this weekend.

Cao was under significant pressure from the Obama administration to support the legislation and indicated earlier this year he would vote to approve it if restrictions were placed on public funding of abortions.

Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:05 a.m. WASHINGTON - Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.

Don't tell the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, but that was supposed to be the easy part.