Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA]

2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

Mary Landrieu (La.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) all voted to proceed to the bill, but they pledged not to vote in favor of final passage ...

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Health reform Reid wins support with favored treatment

2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

...to fence-sitting colleagues to entice them to support the procedural vote to open debate. One holdout was Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu. To secure her vote, the majority leader included a special provision to send more Medicaid aid to Louisiana. The amou

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2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

That is the now-infamous 300000 million that many are calling the Louisiana US Senator Mary Landrieu—Harry Reid transaction which was part of the health ...

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COMMENTARY: Small businesses get better protection in health-reform bill

2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

Editor's note: Because US Sen. Mary Landrieu has and will cast closely watched votes on health-care reform, today we're running this column written by her ...

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Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift: Codify all those super majorities

2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., forthrightly defended the $300 million in Medicaid funding she won for her state as her price for voting to bring the health ...

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Hard to digest

2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

While the rest of America enjoyed a Thanksgiving turkey, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., was basking in a $300 million kitchen full of pork she just served up on ...

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COMMENTARY: Small businesses get better protection in health-reform bill

2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

Editors note: Because U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu has and will cast closely watched votes on health-care reform, today were running this column written by her in place of a syndicated column. Louise Brown, owner of Bayou Café and Catering in Baton Rouge,

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Your Views - 11/27

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

Sen. Mary Landrieu sold out her country by voting yes on the health care bill and became a brand new recipient of $300 million for her district ("Senate ...

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Buying of a senator

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana also states she is against this Senate health bill. The price for buying her vote was a 100 million dollar special ...

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Ralph Doty: It's time for radio and TV host Glenn Beck to go

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

(Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana also made it clear that she may not vote for the final bill in a month or two.) Here is how political commentator/verbal ...

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Senators Away For Holiday Continue Health Debate At Home

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

White House health care czar Nancy-Ann DeParle on Tuesday praised Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-La., for their roles in helping ...

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Letter: Landrieu criticized for debate vote

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

I am writing to express my profound disappointment and sadness over US Sen. Mary Landrieu's support of the health-care bill. I contacted her office just ...

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Sen. Mary Landrieu: Health care small businesses can affort

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

Louise Brown, owner of Bayou Café and Catering in Baton Rouge, wants to provide her 10 employees with health insurance. But with costs as high as $650 a month per employee, even if Louise paid half the cost, most employees would not be able to pay

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2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

Louisiana: 1600 spots at a cost of $600000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. • Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia ...

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2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Joe Lieberman, all of whom have vowed to vote against, or even filibuster, the final bill if it still ...

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When smart people do stupid things

2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

But, when wavering Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana gets millions for her vote on the Health Care Bill, she trumpets the fix for her state. ...

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2009-11-26T00:00:00Z

White House health care czar Nancy-Ann DeParle on Tuesday praised Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-La., for their roles in helping ...

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Cap-and-trade may be on death row

2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Missouri Sen. Kit Bond released an analysis of the bill that passed the US House of Representatives that revealed that ...

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2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

Blanche Lincoln, Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. ...

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2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

Not the whole state, just Senator Mary Landrieu. Well actually, to her credit, because she changed her vote, her state is going to get $300 million. ...

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