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      <excerpt>...ORLEANS (AP) U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, along with other senators, has filed a bill to allow the military to award medals for service during the Cold War. The Cold War Service Medals Act would authorize the secretaries of the military to award Cold War Se</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...by the number of people living in each state, whether or not they are citizens. Vitter's home-state colleague, Democrat Mary Landrieu, recently said in a letter to Vitter that it would take a constitutional amendment to exclude immigrants from the count</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...  The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that a &quot;health care overhaul faces a tough sell among the Louisiana delegation:&quot; &quot;Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the bill pending ... isn't aggressive enough in trying to curb rising health care costs. But she a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of employment. It seems like common sense, but 30 senators managed to vote against the proposal. Here in Louisiana, Sen. Mary Landrieu supported it, but for reasons only he knows, Sen. David Vitter chose to vote no. Even though the amendment passed by a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...supporting cutting off debate on a spending bill, effectively killing the amendment proposed by the Louisiana Republican. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., voted for what is called cloture, a parliamentary procedure that helps end debate quickly. She helped pr</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...has said it will count everybody, regardless of their citizenship status, based on where they are on April 1, 2010. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, R-La., said last week in a prepared statement that she would not join Vitter in holding up a spending bill to fo</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Democratic leaders is not knowing how their caucus members will vote when a bill hits the floor.  On Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, a key undecided centrist, raised new concerns about Reid's decision to include in the bill a govern</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Resolving differences could take weeks some say (Murray and Montgomery, 11/4).  Roll Call: &quot;On Tuesday, moderate Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) made clear she supports Snowe's proposal for a public insurance option that would only be triggered in the future</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... that their constituents don't see the stimulus helping and view the health care bill as a government boondoggle.  Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., criticized &quot;the clumsy political way this (health care) has been handled,&quot; while Nelson warned that &quot;people are</excerpt>
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