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Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is the senior United States Senator from the State of Louisiana, and is the second woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana. Landrieu is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Moon Landrieu and the sister of the current Mayor of New Orleans and former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is among the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate, and is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Early life
Landrieu was born in Arlington, Virginia to Verna Satterlee and former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu, and raised in New Orleans. She was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Ursuline Academy of ...
Senator Mary Landrieu and the Latino Community has been mutually supportive and positive, especially with the New Orleans recovery efforts after Katrina. , positive
There was a striking difference in tone and content between the statements that Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his sister, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, issued this week after President Barack Obama's speech on long-range fiscal policy and deficit reduction. While Mary Landrieu's comments were distinctly lukewarm, Mitch Landrieu's could hardly have been more complimentary, and the White House made clear it appreciated his fervent support.
Of course, Mitch Landrieu is the mayor of an overwhelmingly Democratic city where Obama presumably remains popular, while his sister is the last remaining Democrat to ...
The WWL-TV poll by Clarus Research Group of Washington, D.C., contained a lot more information than the station had time to put on the air. Among the nuggets we dug up is an anomaly between the Democrats' overall bad fortunes this year and U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's approval rating, which remains more positive than negative.
Although most voters interviewed for the survey rated Congressional Democrats poorly (39 percent approval versus 48 percent disapproval), Landrieu's numbers were almost the opposite: 52 percent approved of the job she's doing compared to 40 percent ...
Senator Mary Landrieu D-La. is using a powerful senatorial weapon to hasten an actual end to the offshore drilling moratorium put in place after the Deepwater Horizon incident.
On September 23 Senator Landry placed a hold on the nomination of Jacob "Jack" Lew to head the Office of Management and Budget. She did so to pressure the Obama administration to lift or modify the drilling ban, describing the move as a "last resort."
But although Salazar lifted the moratorium in October, to many in the offshore industry it doesn't feel like its over. And Senator Landrieu "has refused to ...