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Mary Landrieu

Friday Talking Points -- Most Disappointing Plan B

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

A professional pundit was fired because he wrote an opinion piece that was factually inaccurate. Is that even a thing? "Journalists" can get fired for saying things which are false (things that five minutes of fact-checking would have proven laughably wrong), and for other stupid comments?

Luke Johnson

Landrieu, Hagan Get Higher Numbers After Gun Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Mary Landrieu should've been the tip-off. The Louisiana Democrat is well known for having a fine-tuned political antenna, but the senato...

Paul Blumenthal

Senate Dems Jump To Early Lead In Funds

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Democratic senators and candidates running in the 2014 elections posted strong fundraising numbers and cash-on-hand totals in their firs...

Obama Plans Dinner With Dems

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is making dinner plans with more lawmakers, this time with Democrats. The White House says Obama is having ...

Key Donors Get Tough On Skittish Dems

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics

With red state Democratic Senators remaining skittish about embracing Obama’s gun proposals, at least two top Democratic donors are stepping forward...

Lucia Graves

Senate Dems Tepid On Obama's Energy Security Trust

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's alternative-fuel research fund, the Energy Security Trust, while already unpopular with Republicans, is drawing...

Senator Owes Outstanding Taxes On Lavish D.C. Home...Again

The Huffington Post | Will Wrigley | Posted 02.20.2013 | DC

When it comes to taxes, nobody is exempt. This includes politicians who make D.C. their second home when they are elected to Congress. Sen. Mary...

Paul Blumenthal

Which Senators Are Winning The 2014 Money Race?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.13.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The race for the Senate in 2014 is well under way, and so is the fundraising needed to fuel campaigns for the 35 seats up for election n...

Abortion Bill Contains Interesting Ban

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 02.03.2013 | Politics

A Republican state legislator in Mississippi has proposed a ban on human-animal hybrids. State Rep. William Tracy Arnold (R-Booneville) proposed t...

Invest in What Works

Robert E. Slavin | Posted 01.23.2013 | Home
Robert E. Slavin

Wise use of federal resources is not a Democratic or Republican issue. It is a moral imperative, both in the bond of trust between taxpayers and government and in ensuring effective services to vulnerable young people.

Twenty Women Senators on the Cliff

Sue Casey | Posted 03.02.2013 | Politics
Sue Casey

It's rare for any women leader to suggest openly that in some ways women might be more capable leaders than their male counterparts, but one does have to wonder: If these women were in charge, really in charge, would things be so different?

Senate Passes Adoption Legislation Before Holiday Break

Andrea Poe | Posted 02.19.2013 | Politics
Andrea Poe

This month, the U.S. Senate passed two pieces of legislation aimed at helping children, particularly those who have been adopted and those who are waiting to be connected with permanent families of their own.

Paul Blumenthal

Karl Rove Group Takes Aim At 2014 Senate Races

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The 2012 election is barely five weeks behind us, but conservative "dark money" groups are already beginning their 2014 campaign. Crossr...

Jennifer Bendery

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.21.2012 | Politics

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...

Hundreds Of Donkeys Abandoned

AP | JANET McCONNAUGHEY | Posted 03.29.2012 | Green

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

Lucia Graves

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.07.2012 | Green

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

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

Politico | Ken Vogel | Posted 11.17.2011 | Politics

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...

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

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 12.31.2011 | Home

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...

John Celock

Louisiana Governor Leading Opponents By 50 Points

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.21.2011 | Politics

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. ...

Friday Talking Points [168] -- Zombie Attack!

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.20.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

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."

Senator Landrieu: The Apologist

Edward Flattau | Posted 07.17.2011 | Green
Edward Flattau

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.

Ryan Grim

Dem Senators Defend Big Oil Against Own Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.11.2011 | Politics

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

Weekly Pulse: Don't Snort Bath Salts, Kids

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Media Consortium

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

Congressional Leaders Ignore Job Killing Contracting Abuse

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

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.

Ryan Grim

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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