BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry testified before a congressional committee Wednesday to make a pitch for federal funding for major infrastructure projects and to give context to how important some of the state’s projects are to the nation as a whole.
Notably, the governor made a pitch to the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for more money towards key infrastructure projects such as the Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles, a new Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge and the I-49 corridor that has never been completed.
The Baton Rouge bridge project has been slow moving with a final location not yet selected and state funds for the project temporarily being diverted to cover recent tax cuts. The project is estimated to cost over $2 billion…