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- February 07, 2011 | from Bloomberg Interior Needs 30% Boost in Budget to Speed Gulf Drilling, Landrieu Says The U.S. Interior Department, which oversees drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, should get a 30 percent boost in its 2012 budget to speed processing of oil-exploration permits, said Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana.
- February 05, 2011 | from New Orleans Times-Picayune Sen. Mary Landrieu plans to seek fourth Senate term "I am very comfortable with my centrist record of accomplishment and look forward to continuing to serve Louisiana and working on issues important to the state like our coastal recovery, championing small businesses, and advocating for education reform."
- February 03, 2011 | from New York Times Affordable Housing and the Gulf A Senate bill introduced by Mary Landrieu, a Democrat of Louisiana, with the support of several Republicans, would extend the program for an additional year. The bill, which still needs a sponsor in the House, deserves to pass as swiftly as possible. Without it, the gulf states are unlikely to get the housing they need.
- January 22, 2011 | from New Orleans Times-Picayune Sen. Mary Landrieu to lead entrepreneurship roundtable Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, hosts a roundtable discussion Thursday on encouraging entrepreneurship in economically disadvantaged, rural and traditionally under-served areas.
- December 15, 2010 | from NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE GO Zone fight not yet over, Landrieu and Vitter say "The extension is critical to the people of the Gulf Coast, to our cities and to all the businesses that are depending on a full economic recovery from the storms of 2005."
- December 10, 2010 | from NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE Opposition to Obama tax deal brings Sen. Mary Landrieu together with an unlikely ally "Everybody knows that on many issues her views and my views are different, but on this issue I think we are speaking for the overwhelming majority of the people, not just in Louisiana and Vermont, but all over the country who can't understand why we give tax breaks to billionaires when the deficits are so high," Sanders said.
- September 23, 2010 | from The Hill Landrieu to block OMB nominee unless oil drilling ban lifted "I cannot support further action on Mr. Lew's nomination to be a key economic adviser to the president until I am convinced that the president and his administration understand the detrimental impacts that the actual and de facto moratoria continue to have on the Gulf Coast," Landrieu wrote to Reid
- September 14, 2010 | from New Orleans Times-Picayune Sen. Mary Landrieu hailed at milestone in effort to help small businesses Senate Democrats, led by Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, and with a decisive assist from two Republicans not seeking re-election, ended debate Tuesday on a bill to extend loans and tax breaks to small businesses, clearing the way for Senate approval of the measure that backers predict will create a half million new jobs.
- June 20, 2010 | from The Hill Landrieu: $20 billion from BP might not be enough The $20 billion BP will pay into an escrow account to fund claims to victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might not be enough, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) suggested.
- June 15, 2010 | from New Orleans Times-Picayune Sen. Mary Landrieu urges Barack Obama to accelerate oil revenue sharing Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., today urged President Barack Obama to use his speech tonight on the Gulf oil spill to seek accelerated revenue sharing from offshore oil and gas development to help Louisiana restore its wetlands and marshes.
