Mary Landrieu News Archives

The war of words between Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and Senator David Vitter has escalated.

Democratic leaders in the Senate and House have concluded that a government-run insurance plan is the cheapest way to expand health coverage, and they sought Friday to rally support for the idea, prospects for which have gone in a few short weeks from bleak to bright.

Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu says it's a transparent political stunt. Republican David Vitter says it's essential to protect the rights of American citizens living in Louisiana.

Louisiana has problems, many of them. But, losing young, educated workers may be the most significant.

WASHINGTON Via a press release, United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today vowed to fight a new Food and Drug Administration proposal that would end the sale of raw oysters that are not subjected to post-harvest processing techniques.

Republican Sen. David Vitter's ongoing crusade to include a citizenship question on the 2010 Census, and then exclude non-citizens from the reapportionment count, has managed to inflame passions all around.

Marriage is always bad, zombies are always good. Although I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to marrying a zombie.

WASHINGTON The following is an email press release from Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's office: United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Rep.

Short on votes, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has decided to go forward anyway with health reform legislation that would include setting up new flavor of the public health insurance option that liberals want as part of that bill.

Small business groups are lobbying Congress to allow firms with as many as 100 employees to purchase health insurance through new exchanges that would be created through health care reform legislation.

As the healthcare debate moves forward, it seems clearer that a "public option" will be included in the legislation.

The public option, we hear, is about to take earthly form. While congressional leaders working to combine five health care reform bills will determine its final shape, a government-run health plan to compete with the private offerings will almost surely become reality.

A healthcare reform bill with a government-run insurance option faced an uncertain future in the Senate yesterday, with many centrist Democrats uncommitted and Senator Joe Lieberman strongly opposed.

Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is under pressure from most of Louisiana's congressional delegation to support Republican Sen.

Women voters may be crucial in Rep. Charlie Melancon and Sen. David Vitter's race for the U.S. Senate in 2010.

Sen. Mary Landrieu peered over her dark-rimmed glasses inside a packed Capitol Hill hearing room on Tuesday and rattled off statistics showing how skyrocketing health care costs are crippling small businesses.

The Senate will consider whether the government should run and fund a health care plan to compete with private insurance, but states could choose not to participate in the so-called "public option."However, the compromise plan announced Monday by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., may not win enough votes to break Congress' deadlock over ...

A handful of moderate Senate Democrats will determine the fate of this year's health care overhaul, and they're sending strong signals that while they are willing to compromise, they're wary of a strong public option.

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Without spelling out details, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Friday that she sees a possibility of compromise on health care legislation being hammered out in Congress .

A bipartisan effort to promote awareness and use of domestic natural gas kicked off Thursday in Washington with the official launching of the Congressional Natural Gas Caucus.

"I've ruled out a government-funded and a government-operated plan," said Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who faces a tough re-election fight next year.

Flexible over public option --- Two Louisiana House members on the fence over health care legislation are saying that a public option for people dissatisfied or unable to get insurance through private markets isn't necessarily a make-or-break issue for them.

As we've reported, a compromise is emerging in the Senate on a public option that give states the opportunity to either opt out of or opt in.A Democratic sources say the former, rather than the later, is preferred by Majority Leader Harry Reid, but some concerns still exists for moderate Dems, like Sens.

In Congress these days, the health care debate is as much about patience as patients.

Democratic leaders in the Senate and House have concluded that a government-run insurance plan is the cheapest way to expand health coverage, and they sought Friday to rally support for the idea, prospects for which have gone in a few short weeks from bleak to bright.

United States Senators Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today announced the creation of the bipartisan Senate Natural Gas Caucus.

Support for including some version of a public option in the Senate's version of a healthcare overhaul appears to be solider than initially believed.

When you type "Louisiana" into any search engine on the Web these days, you don't see news of UL appearing on the international stage in the Energy Department's Solar Decathlon.

When it comes to people of color who run hotels in major urban centers, Thomas Penny is like a raisin in a bowl of milk, if you let him describe it.

The Democrats' control of a hefty majority in the Senate - plus the House - would suggest that President Obama is within reach of overhauling the nation's health care system this fall.

WHAT'S VITTER WAITING FOR?.... The controversy surrounding Louisiana's Keith Bardwell generated national attention, and with good reason.

A Louisiana couple is outraged at a local official's decision to deny them a marriage license because their relationship is interracial.

Oct. 18: Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., looks ahead to the 2010 congressional election with NBC's David Gregory on "Meet the Press." Meet the Press Video A A Looking towards 2010 Oct.

United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., will sponsor a Small Business Outreach Conference in Thibodaux, La., on Friday, October 16, 2009.

In this file photo, attorney Bill Quigley speaks before the New Orleans City Council in New Orleans, Dec.

Blog:City Brights: Yobie Benjamin: 49815 : Judge: no regrets refusing to marry interracial couple.

President Obama participates in a town hall meeting Thursday at the University of New Orleans.

A day after an enthusiastic, almost-gushing crowd met President Barack Obama on his first visit to New Orleans since taking office, some in this still-suffering, hurricane-struck city wondered when platitudes and political speech would give way to greater progress.

A A Oct. 16: Beth Humphrey andA Terence McKay recall how they wereA refused a marriage license by aA justice of the peace in Louisiana.

Clean energy jobs and their Louisiana oil and gas counterparts aren't necessarily as difficult to mix as oil and water, advocates from an alternative energy group say.

President Barack Obama is greeted by, from left, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, Sen.

An effort is underway to organize a large free health clinic in Arkansas or Louisiana to draw attention to the need for change in states with Democratic senators key to passing health reform legislation.

President Barack Obama will be in New Orleans on Thursday, making his first post-inauguration visit to a city and region desperate to impress upon him both the long strides made since Hurricane Katrina, and the daunting challenges in housing, education, health care, levee protection and coastal restoration yet ahead.

By Cindy Von Quednow - Two breast cancer survivors a ' one a Florida congresswoman a ' helped raise money for breast cancer detection and treatment in the District of Columbia, which has the highest rate of diagnosis and death in the country.

Landrieu wants equal health care --- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., joining with her eight fellow female Democratic senators, said on the Senate floor last week that health care reform must end the gender discrimination that affects women throughout Louisiana.

U.S Sen. Bill Nelson, R-Orlando, and three other senators want FEMA to provide rental help for residents who have fled their homes to escape the effects of defective Chinese drywall.

As time wound down for state officials to file for $300 million in federal money to pay for a high-speed rail line , U.S. Rep.

Although the Housing Authority of New Orleans will remain under the receivership of the U.S. Dept.

As a Senate committee continues debating health care reform this week, a coalition of civil rights groups is launching an ad campaign that presses Sen.

This week's headlines declared the so-called public option dead on arrival after the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday rejected two versions of it offered by Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.

Congressional conference committee rejects amendment supporting proposal to pump stormwater from the 17th St.

On Wednesday, cap and trade finally came to the Senate. Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer unveiled their their climate change legislation in response to the bill that narrowly passed the House earlier this year.

Rep. Anh 'Joseph' Cao has been looking for ways to keep potential money for the Louisiana project on track.

The Department of Defense inspector general's office has closed its investigation into allegations by a former employee of NOLA.com that employees of the Army Corps of Engineers used federal equipment to conduct a "systemic attack" on corps critics by making disparaging online comments.