John Breaux
John Breaux
John Berlinger Breauxwas a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the US House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition. After his Congressional career, he became a lobbyist, co-founding the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group. The firm was later acquired by law and lobbying firm Patton Boggs, now...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Is it a perfect agreement? Of course not. But does it help people who need the help the most at the bottom end of the economic ladder? I think it does. Does it also help people at the top end who pay the greatest amount of taxes? The answer is also yes.
I've had feelers put out to me by low-level people in the Bush organization, mostly campaign-type people, asking if I would be interested in serving.
It's clear that their proposal is going to be vetoed and we end up with nothing, ... The American people don't want us to do nothing but they would like us to do something that's reasonable and I suggest about a $500 billion tax cut over 10 years.
She'll know how to operate really well in the U.S. Senate. She comes in as a freshman, but she's not really a freshman,
Their trading relations with us are very, very important, and I think that the United States wants to trade with people they can cooperate with or we can depend on, ... They should be mindful of that as these negotiations continue.
We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to,
As I have said all along, we must rely on Florida's highest court to interpret Florida state laws governing its elections, ... With the Florida Supreme Court justices' decision now in hand, I hope a recount will be concluded in time to meet the federal deadline to select electors.
There's plenty of lore, but none of it you can publish in a family newspaper.
Blaming each other does not save a life, does not feed a single family or compensate them in their loss.
You have a unique opportunity here for the first time to rebuild an American city, ... That means not just the buildings have to be rebuilt, but you have to address the problems of race and poverty and culture ... .
To suggest that these African-American leaders would somehow shortchange their own citizens is absolutely without merit,
advance the cause of government in a democracy that is almost evenly divided between the two parties.
The most important speech of this election is ... going to be given by the loser when they concede because it will set the tone for the next four years,
a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.