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Born in [[Arlington, Virginia]], Landrieu was raised in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]. She 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]]. She received her [[baccalaureate degree]] from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]. After working as a real estate agent for several years, she was elected as a [[Louisiana House of Representatives|state representative]] (1980–1988) and [[state treasurer]] (1988–1996). She won a close race for the U.S. Senate [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 1996|in 1996]]; she was re-elected by increasing margins in competitive races in [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2002|2002]] and [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2008|2008]].
Born in [[Arlington, Virginia]], Landrieu was raised in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]. She 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]]. She received her [[baccalaureate degree]] from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]. After working as a real estate agent for several years, she was elected as a [[Louisiana House of Representatives|state representative]] (1980–1988) and [[state treasurer]] (1988–1996). She won a close race for the U.S. Senate [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 1996|in 1996]]; she was re-elected by increasing margins in competitive races in [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2002|2002]] and [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2008|2008]].


Landrieu is one of the most [[conservative Democrat]]s in the Senate, often opposing her party's positions.<ref name=southerndemocrats/> Her opposition to the [[public health insurance option|public option]] played a major role in the crafting of the [[Health care reform in the United States|health insurance reform bills of 2010]]. She became a spokeswoman for federal emergency relief in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005, which devastated her state. She chairs the [[United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship|Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship]]. In 2011, she became a cardinal (chair) of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, giving her the ability to fund major federal agencies like the [[U.S. Coast Guard]], [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] and [[FEMA]]. In 2005, she sponsored an unprecedented Senate resolution by which the U.S. Senate apologized for its failure to enact anti-[[Lynching in the United States|lynching]] legislation during the early 20th century.
She became a spokeswoman for federal emergency relief in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005, which devastated her state. She chairs the [[United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship|Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship]]. In 2011, she became a cardinal (chair) of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, giving her the ability to fund major federal agencies like the [[U.S. Coast Guard]], [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] and [[FEMA]]. In 2005, she sponsored an unprecedented Senate resolution by which the U.S. Senate apologized for its failure to enact anti-[[Lynching in the United States|lynching]] legislation during the early 20th century.


==Early life, education, and real estate career==
==Early life, education, and real estate career==
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==Positions==
==Positions==
By national standards, Landrieu is among the most [[conservative Democrat]]s in the U.S. Senate. The [[American Conservative Union]] rated Senator Landrieu as 40% conservative in 2007, which was the highest score of any sitting Democrat and higher than the scores of two [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]].<ref>[https://votesmart.org/interest-group/1481/rating/3960#.UhUCGRukpF4]</ref> In 2012, the ''[[National Journal]]'' rated her as the most conservative Senate Democrat.<ref name=southerndemocrats>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/30/southern-democrats-senate-pryor-landrieu-hagan/2123939/|title=Southern Democratic senators fighting conservative tide|date=30 Aprill 2013|publisher=USA Today|author=Paul C. Barton}}</ref> She is a member of the [[New Democrat Coalition]].
The [[American Conservative Union]] rated Senator Landrieu as 16% conservative in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00097 |title=2012 ACU Ratings of Congress |publisher=[[American Conservative Union]] |accessdate=2013-08-21}}</ref> In 2012, the ''[[National Journal]]'' rated her as the 47th most conservative member of the Senate<ref name=southerndemocrats>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/30/southern-democrats-senate-pryor-landrieu-hagan/2123939/|title=Southern Democratic senators fighting conservative tide|date=30 Aprill 2013|publisher=USA Today|author=Paul C. Barton}}</ref> She is a member of the [[New Democrat Coalition]].


In 2002 she voted for the [[Iraq Resolution]] and in 2003 issued a statement indicating that "The time for diplomacy has ended."<ref>http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=15</ref> She voted for the [[Class Action Fairness Act of 2005]] and the [[Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act]].
In 2002 she voted for the [[Iraq Resolution]] and in 2003 issued a statement indicating that "The time for diplomacy has ended."<ref>http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=15</ref> She voted for the [[Class Action Fairness Act of 2005]] and the [[Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act]].

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Mary Landrieu
United States Senator
from Louisiana
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 1997
Serving with David Vitter
Preceded byJ. Bennett Johnston
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2009
Preceded byJohn Kerry
Louisiana State Treasurer
In office
January 1, 1988 – January 8, 1996
GovernorBuddy Roemer
Edwin Edwards
Preceded byMary Evelyn Parker
Succeeded byKen Duncan
Louisiana House of Representatives
In office
1980–1988
Personal details
Born
Mary Loretta Landrieu

(1955-11-23) November 23, 1955 (age 69)
Arlington, Virginia
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseFrank Snellings
ChildrenConnor Snellings
Mary Shannon Snellings
ResidenceNew Orleans, Louisiana
Alma materLouisiana State University (B.A.)
Occupationreal estate agent
Signature
Websitelandrieu.senate.gov

Mary Loretta Landrieu (/ˈlændruː/ LAN-drew;[1] born November 23, 1955) is the senior United States Senator from the State of Louisiana and a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Arlington, Virginia, Landrieu was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She 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. She received her baccalaureate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After working as a real estate agent for several years, she was elected as a state representative (1980–1988) and state treasurer (1988–1996). She won a close race for the U.S. Senate in 1996; she was re-elected by increasing margins in competitive races in 2002 and 2008.

She became a spokeswoman for federal emergency relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which devastated her state. She chairs the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2011, she became a cardinal (chair) of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, giving her the ability to fund major federal agencies like the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security and FEMA. In 2005, she sponsored an unprecedented Senate resolution by which the U.S. Senate apologized for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation during the early 20th century.

Early life, education, and real estate career

Landrieu was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Verna (née Satterlee) and former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu,[2] and raised in New Orleans. She was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Ursuline Academy of New Orleans. She graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1977 where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. Before entering politics, she worked as a real estate agent.

Early political career

State legislature

She was elected as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving from 1980 to 1988 and representing a New Orleans district.

State Treasurer

She was elected as Louisiana state treasurer from 1988–1996. In the 1987 primary for treasurer, she defeated two legislative colleagues, Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., chief executive officer at the time of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, and Claude "Buddy" Leach, a former U.S. representative and the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Landrieu gave up the treasurer's office to run for governor of Louisiana in 1995, but finished third in the state's jungle primary. The eventual winner was Democrat-turned-Republican Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.

U.S. Senate

Elections

Landrieu speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Landrieu was elected in 1996 to the U.S. Senate seat previously held by John Bennett Johnston, Jr. of Shreveport after winning a close and controversial runoff election.[3] This is called the general election in Louisiana. She defeated Louisiana State Representative Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge.

Landrieu narrowly won re-election in the 2002 mid-term election. She defeated Suzanne Haik Terrell of New Orleans. Some experts and pundits had considered Landrieu as a possible running mate for presidential candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election before he selected then- Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. In 2004 Landrieu became Louisiana's senior senator upon the retirement of John Breaux, who was replaced by Republican David Vitter.

Tenure

In 2005 Landrieu sponsored a resolution, which the Senate passed in an unprecedented action, to formally apologize for its repeated failure in the early twentieth century to pass anti-lynching legislation.[4] The Senate Southern white Democrats had filibustered the Dyer bill in 1922[5] and two other bills that passed the House. At the time, African Americans suffered a high rate of lynchings in the South; this coincided with their disfranchisement in the South from 1890–1910,[6] which persisted until after passage of federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

Landrieu has worked to secure funding for Louisiana projects as one of her top priorities. She held high-profile hearings on the mistakes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. In 2008, she won a relatively comfortable 52% to 46% re-election to a third term in a race against her challenger, Louisiana State Treasurer John Neely Kennedy. He was a former Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 2007.[7]

On December 15, 2008, it was announced that Landrieu would become Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship for the 111th Congress when former Chairman John Kerry left to lead the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, previously headed by Vice President-elect Joe Biden.[8] With Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine as the ranking Republican on the Committee, she and Landrieu made history as the only Senate committee to be led by women.

In September 2010 Landrieu announced she would hold up OMB director Jacob Lew’s confirmation until the administration lifted or eased a federal freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling. Her delay of Lew’s nomination came despite broad bipartisan support for appointing him to OMB. The Senate Budget Committee recommended that Lew be confirmed on a 22–1 vote.[9]

Committee assignments

Source: 2009 Congressional Record, Vol. 155, Page S729

Caucus memberships

  • Senate Oceans Caucus
  • Senate Natural Gas Caucus, co-chair
  • Congressional Coalition on Adoption, co-chair
  • Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, co-chair

Positions

The American Conservative Union rated Senator Landrieu as 16% conservative in 2012.[10] In 2012, the National Journal rated her as the 47th most conservative member of the Senate[11] She is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.

In 2002 she voted for the Iraq Resolution and in 2003 issued a statement indicating that "The time for diplomacy has ended."[12] She voted for the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Landrieu voted for the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005, but in 2006, she opposed Samuel Alito, though she did vote in favor of cloture to send the nomination to an up-or-down vote.

Subsequent to the 2006 midterm election, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced (along with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine) the formation of the "Common Ground Coalition", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.[8][13]

On December 18, 2010, Landrieu voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.[14][15]

On March 1, 2012, Landrieu voted against a measure that would have repealed a birth control mandate in the health care bill, despite her Roman Catholic beliefs.[16]

On April 17, 2013, Landrieu voted to expand background checks for gun purchases. [17]

Health care

Landrieu was opposed to the public health insurance option in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009[18] (HR 3200) until the bill was rewritten to send a $300,000,000 payment to Medicaid for her home state.[19] When two pages were added to the bill to place $300 million in Louisiana's Medicaid system, she changed her web page in order to reflect her support of the program.[20] Conservative figures referred to the deal as the "Louisiana Purchase".[21] As a result, prominent conservative figures Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh called her a "high-priced prostitute".[22]

On November 21, 2009, Landrieu voted with fifty-nine other Senators to bring the health care bill up for debate. On December 8, 2009, she voted against the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment which proposed to ban federal funding for private plans that covered elective abortions but allowed individuals to purchase separate individual riders that would cover abortions.[21]

Prior to a concession of $300 million being added to the bill, Landrieu responded to a question on popular support of the public option, and asserted that the option has popular support because “when people hear ‘public option’ they hear ‘free health care.’ Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for.”[23][24]

Landrieu voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act) in December 2009.[25]

Hurricane Katrina

Sen. Landrieu (center) joins Women of the Storm from the Gulf Coast

Hurricane Katrina destroyed Landrieu's lakeside New Orleans home. The senator has become a national spokeswoman for victims of the hurricane, and has complained of "the staggering incompetence of the national government."[26]

In the weeks following Katrina, Landrieu and fellow Senator David Vitter co-sponsored the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act of 2005 (S.1765),[27] a 440-page aid package worth an estimated $250 billion[28][29] (roughly $550,000 per resident) in order to rebuild New Orleans, a city of 453,726 pre-Katrina.[30] The bill was read twice by Congress, then referred to the United States Senate Committee on Finance.[31]

USA PATRIOT Act

On August 3, 2007, Landrieu broke ranks with Democrats when she and Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon sided with Republicans and the Bush Administration in voting for the Protect America Act, an amendment to the USA Patriot Act further expanding wiretap powers.[32]

In 2011, she was the inadvertent Senate sponsor of the four-year extension to the Patriot Act when Senator Reid amended a small business bill introduced by Senator Landrieu as a means of avoiding a threatened filibuster by Senator Rand Paul. Senator Landrieu joined the majority in voting for the extension, which passed 72-23. [33] [34]

Voyager reading program

Landrieu earmarked $2 million for a reading program whose founder supported her campaign for reelection. Randy Best, founder of the Voyager Expanded Learning literacy program, had hosted a fundraising event that raised $30,000 for Landrieu's reelection campaign days before she proposed his reading program in the earmark. Best and his company's top associates were among those who donated to Landrieu's campaign.[35] This earned her a spot on the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington advocacy group's "Top 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress" report.[36]

In 2007, Landrieu was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.[37]

Plot to compromise Landrieu's phone system

On January 25, 2010, four Republican conservative activists, including Stan Dai, Joseph Basel, both 24; Robert Flanagan, son of Bill Flanagan, acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana; and conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, were arrested by US Marshals for their role in a plot to hack the phone system of Landrieu's New Orleans office to record her and her staff's conversations.[38] Two of the alleged co-conspirators posed as telephone repair technicians in order to gain access to the telephone system. O'Keefe admitted to secretly "recording" the interactions with the staff with his cell phone and aiding in the "planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation." [39]

On March 27, 2010, the four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses, a misdemeanor charge.[40] On May 26, 2010 all four pled guilty before Magistrate Daniel Knowles III in a New Orleans federal court. Three of the four received two years' probation, 75 hours of community service and $1,500 fines; while James O'Keefe received a sentence of three years' probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.[41]

Personal life

Landrieu and her husband, attorney Frank Snellings (born 1949), who grew up in Monroe, have two children, Connor and Mary Shannon.

Electoral history

1996
See also: United States Senate election in Louisiana, 1996
Louisiana United States Senate jungle primary election, September 21, 1996[42]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Woody Jenkins 322,244 26.23
Democratic Mary Landrieu 264,268 21.51
Democratic Richard Ieyoub 250,682 20.41
Republican David Duke 141,489 11.52
Republican Jimmy Hayes 71,699 5.84
Republican Bill Linder 58,243 4.74
Republican Chuck McMains 45,164 3.68
Republican Peggy Wilson 31,877 2.6
Democratic Troyce Guice 15,277 1.24
Independent Nicholas J. Accardo 10,035 0.82
Independent Arthur D. "Jim" Nichols 7,894 0.64
Democratic Sadie Roberts-Joseph 4,660 0.38
Independent Tom Kirk 1,987 0.16
Independent Darryl Paul Ward 1,770 0.14
Independent Sam Houston Melton, Jr. 1,270 0.1
Turnout 1,228,559
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Louisiana United States Senate election runoff, November 5, 1996[43]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Mary Landrieu 852,945 50.17 −3.78
Republican Woody Jenkins 847,157 49.83 +6.35
Majority 5788 0.34 −10.13
Turnout 1,700,102
Democratic hold
2002
See also: United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2002
Louisiana United States Senate jungle primary election, November 5, 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Mary Landrieu 573,347 46
Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell 339,506 27.24
Republican John Cooksey 171,752 13.78
Republican Tony Perkins 119,776 9.61
Democratic Raymond Brown 23,553 1.89
Independent Patrick E. "Live Wire" Landry 10,442 0.84
Independent James Lemann 3,866 0.31
Libertarian Gary D. Robbins 2,423 0.19
Republican Ernest Edward Skillman, Jr. 1,668 0.13
Turnout 1,246,333
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Louisiana United States Senate election runoff, December 7, 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Mary Landrieu 638,654 51.70 +1.53
Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell 596,642 48.30 −1.53
Majority 42,012 3.4 +3.06
Turnout 1,235,296
Democratic hold
2008
See also: United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2008
Template:American politics/party colors/Democratic/row
Louisiana United States Senate jungle primary election, November 5, 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Mary Landrieu 988,298 52.11 +0.41
Republican John Neely Kennedy 867,177 45.72 −2.58
Libertarian Richard Fontanesi 18,590 0.98 n/a
Independent Jay Patel 13,729 0.72 n/a
Independent Robert Stewart 8,780 0.46 n/a
Majority 121,121 6.39 +2.99
Turnout 1,896,574
Democratic hold

References

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  3. ^ Carney, James (July 7, 1997). "No Saints in New Orleans". Time. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
  4. ^ Associated Press, "Senate Apologizes for Not Passing Anti-Lynching Laws", Fox News
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  6. ^ Richard H. Pildes, "Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon", Constitutional Commentary, Vol.17, 2000, accessed 10 March 2008
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  9. ^ OMB nomination delay would mean no adviser for key budget period
  10. ^ "2012 ACU Ratings of Congress". American Conservative Union. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
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