Honorable Mary 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 Energy and Natural Resources and sits on the following committees: Appropriations, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Homeland Security; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, where she chairs the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The following is from the November 18, 2014, Senate floor debate on S. 2280, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. This is the Keystone bill,…