Mary Landrieu

Sen. Landrieu: Republicans Say 'In Private' They Support New Revenues In Debt Ceiling Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans may publicly trash the idea of including new revenues in a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, but they say otherwise in pr...

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Hundreds Of Donkeys Abandoned

AP | JANET McCONNAUGHEY | Posted 03.29.2012

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-- With pastures withered from a lingering drought, farmers in Texas and northwest Louisiana have abandoned donkeys by the hundreds, turning them int...

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Federal Fracking Regulations In Draft Report Would Require Disclosure Of Chemical Fluids

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Natural gas drillers would be required to disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" on public lands, accordi...

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O'Keefe Group Facing Major Difficulties As Conservative Activist Misses Targets

Politico | Ken Vogel | Posted 11.17.2011

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After pulling off the brazen hidden camera sting credited with bringing down the liberal organizing group ACORN, James O'Keefe dreamt up an even bolde...

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Staggering Number Of Foster Kids Don't Finish High School, College

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 12.31.2011

When Carey Sommer entered foster care in California, he left his mom, his high school and his friends. Bounced from home to home, he changed high scho...

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Louisiana Governor Leading Opponents By 50 Points

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.21.2011

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is on track to easily win a second term during Saturday's statewide elections, which have something of a one-party feel. ...

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Friday Talking Points [168] -- Zombie Attack!

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.20.2011

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Now all Americans can breathe a huge sigh of relief because the Centers for Disease Control just posted instructions so we can all adequately prepare for "Zombie Armageddon."

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Senator Landrieu: The Apologist

Edward Flattau | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Oil Industry, Environmental Policy, Mary Landrieu, Oil Subsidies, Senator Landrieu, Senator Robert Menendez, Congressional Research Service, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Tax Breaks, Green News

The Senate's most outspoken apologist for the oil industry is at it again. Sen. Mary Landrieu, recently declared that eliminating federal subsidies to the major oil companies would be a gross injustice.

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Dem Senators Defend Big Oil Against Own Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Mark Begich, Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Oil Subsidies, Oil Prices, Oil, Mary Landrieu, Gulf Oil Spill, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic attempt to take on the major oil companies is being challenged from within, with representatives of producing states rush...

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Weekly Pulse: Don't Snort Bath Salts, Kids

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger According to Robin Marty of Care2.org, today's young whippersnappers are snorting bath salts and pl...

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Congressional Leaders Ignore Job Killing Contracting Abuse

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a recent letter to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Senators Landrieu and Snowe used strong rhetoric to describe the wide variety of problems facing federal small business programs. This is nothing more than meaningless posturing.

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Mary Landrieu: 'Obama-McConnell Plan' Is 'Almost Morally Corrupt'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mary Landrieu, a conservative Democratic from Louisiana, lashed out Tuesday at President Obama's deal with congressional Republican...

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Nobel Prize Obstructionism

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is downright ludicrous to say that a Nobel Prize-winning economist is somehow not qualified to get a job running economic policy for the government. Until Sen. Richard Shelby realizes this, Obama and the White House should point it out.

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Green News Report: September 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

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TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Koala Chla...

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Gibbs: Sen. Landrieu's Taking Hostage Of OMB Nominee 'Sad' and 'Outrageous'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took aim at Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) on Thursday, calling her decision to block the nomination of the nex...

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Friday Talking Points [140] -- Pledging Nonsense

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House has been in the news this past week, mostly for who will be leaving it soon. One is tempted to insert the old "will the last to leave...

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Katrina, Five Years Later

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

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The simple, sad fact is that the biggest obstacle facing efforts to restore the Gulf Coast is that the region is still governed, not as a democracy, but as a colonial appendage of the oil industry.

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Sandra Bullock Marks Katrina Anniversary At Clinic

AP | CHEVEL JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock returned Sunday to the New Orleans high school she helped...

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New Gulf Business Coalition Aims To Revitalize Beleaguered Coastal Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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Civic and community leaders from Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi will meet in New Orleans Thursday to officially launch Ready4TakeOff.org,...

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Legislation to Prevent More Heartbreaking Stories Like Baby Vanessa

Sen. Mary Landrieu | Posted 05.25.2011

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The heartbreaking story of the battle over Baby Vanessa drives home the need for our adoption system to balance the rights of fathers and the privacy of mothers, while ultimately working in the best interests of children.

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Senate Wakes Up and Pays Attention to Small Business

Kristie Arslan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Can it be that policymakers are realizing that the self-employed -- which number 23 million and contribute close to $1 trillion to the U.S. economy -- are the economic backbone of our country?

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Mary Landrieu: 'I Am Not A Handmaiden To The Oil Industry'

Posted 05.25.2011

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In the middle of the disastrous Gulf coast oil spill, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) sought to put distance between herself and the oil industry on Wednes...

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Boehner And Landrieu Call For Expanded Offshore Drilling As Gulf Oil Spill Spreads

Climate Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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As BP's massive oil disaster in the Gulf continues to devastate the ecosystem and economy of the region, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has...

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Mary Landrieu: 'No Plans To Return Donations From BP' Says Louisiana Senator's Office

Open Secrets | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), the top congressional recipient of BP-related campaign cash during the last election cycle, has no plans to return contrib...

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Conservative & Corporate Failure in the Deepwater Disaster

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

The only things more astounding than conservatives' record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disast...

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