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
He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.
When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense,'
The question will be, 'Do we need witnesses to provide additional information or do we, in essence, (already) have enough information.
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,
Blaming each other does not save a life, does not feed a single family or compensate them in their loss.
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,
If they pass a bill close to what we support as a centrist group that obviously makes it more do-able over here (in the Senate), ... If they pass a 'Republican-only' bill, then nothing happens.
None of us on the commission are running again.
I would put myself and all of those who have served in Congress in the same boat if you will, as to things that could have been done better,
If we don't get together we are heading for a major train wreck, which I think would be terrible for the American people, ... Face the Nation.
Certainly something that can get passed early on is important, ... I think it's a mistake to come out with the most controversial proposal first.
But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.