Honorable Mary L. Landrieu
United States Senator, Louisiana, Democrat
Senator Landrieu was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. She served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and as Louisiana Treasurer from 1987 to 1996. She chairs the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and sits on the following committees: Appropriations; Energy and Natural Resources; and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, where she chairs the Disaster Recovery Subcommittee. The following is from an April 29, 2010, statement delivered on the Senate floor. I rise today to speak on a serious subject — a tragedy and a disaster that is occurring right now off the…
