Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieuis an American politician and former U.S. Senator from the state of Louisiana. She is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1955
CityArlington, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.
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I feel a little bit like a reporter, ... I don't know if I'm filing my stories correctly or meeting the deadlines, but I feel like a reporter, trying to give people a sense of the magnitude of what we're facing.
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A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people
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FEMA has proven to be a shell of what it once was and has been unable, and seemingly unwilling, to provide the direct and immediate resources necessary in the aftermath of the most devastating natural disaster in American history,
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This bill is not a pro-drilling bill or an anti-drilling bill. It's a revenue sharing bill. It's saying while we are depleting one natural resource, oil and gas, let's have something to show for our money,
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The Bush administration can't investigate its own failures,
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Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.
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a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe.
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I believe we turned that corner several years ago.
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Let's hope that the hurricane does not hit at a Category 4 strength and let's hope the lessons we've learned - the painful, tragic lessons that have been learned in the last few weeks - will best prepare us for what could happen with Rita.
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As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.
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It shouldn't be used by either side to promote a tax policy agenda, ... Everything for Katrina is coming more slowly than expected. It's because the administration is still yet to grasp the dimensions and scope of the devastation.
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Everybody anticipated the breach of the levee, Mr. President,
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All of it is vital, there is not anything in here that we would consider a wish list or pie in the sky,