ENG:Jeffrey Martin "Jeff" Landry (born December 23, 1970), is the former U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party and the Tea Party Caucus. He left Congress when his term expired on January 3, 2013.
Early life, education, and military service
Landry's mother is a religion school teacher at Trinity Catholic School in St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish. His father is an architect and businessman. Jeff Landry received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana) in environmental and sustainable resources, with a minor in biology. He earned a JD degree from Loyola University New Orleans Law School.
He served at Fort Hood near Killeen, ...
Congressman Jeff Landry (R, LA-03) has been honored as a “Champion of Healthcare Innovation” by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), a coalition of leaders of the nation’s premier health care companies and organizations. Landry was honored at the HLC’s annual Healthcare Innovations Expo on Capitol Hill.
“I am proud to be recognized as a representative who fights for quality, affordable, and accessible health care,” said Landry. “Since taking office, I have fought to repeal Obamacare and replace it with real solutions that make health care more ...
The Obama administration's chief oil and gas regulator has canceled a scheduled meeting with Rep. Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia, saying he and his agency's staffers were offended by being compared by the lawmaker to the Gestapo.
Landry made the comment to The Times-Picayune after saying that he was made to wait 20 minutes for a meeting with personnel in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement's New Orleans office only to be told that staff wasn't available. He sought the unscheduled meeting on a recent Friday afternoon.
BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich said in a Monday ...
Rep. Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia, raised more money than Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, during the third quarter of the year, but still has barely more than a third the cash on hand of his potential rival.
In documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission on Friday, Landry reported raising just under $250,000 between July 1 and Oct.30, outpacing by a small margin Boustany's haul of just under $220,000.
Nonetheless, Boustany had $1.1 million in the bank, and Landry had $401,000.
To stay in the House, Landry would have to go head-to-head against Boustany in a district that favors ...