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WASHINGTON—United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., announced on her Facebook page today that she and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, will sit together during the president's State of the Union address Tuesday night.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., issued the following statement today in reaction to the release of the National Oil Spill Commission’s report on the BP oil spill.

Served as Assistant Secretary and Chief of Staff for Interior Department WASHINGTON—United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., issued the following statement today on the resignation of Tom Strickland from the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he has served as Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Chief of Staff, for the last two years.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today issued the following statement in response to the National Oil Spill Commission’s advance partial release of findings from its upcoming full report on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

WASHINGTON— United States Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La, today urged FEMA to be fair in its effort to recoup money from people suspected of receiving improper federal disaster assistance payments following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other disasters.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by the Obama administration yesterday to allow 13 companies to resume deep-water oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. That drilling was suspended after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion last year.

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama will push back the release of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 by about a week, a delay administration officials blame in part on a hold placed on Obama's nominee for budget director.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., issued the following statement today after her vote to ratify the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today welcomed Senate passage of the Defense Authorization Bill, which authorizes more than $147 million to Louisiana projects.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., gave her votes on two important pieces of legislation: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the Dream Act.

The US Senate has passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes for the next two years while reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits.

Sen. Landrieu was successful in receiving a commitment on the Senate floor from Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., the chief Republican negotiator of the tax deal, to include a two-year extension in new tax legislation at the earliest possible time in the 112th Congress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill moving toward approval in the Senate would increase by 60 days the amount of time the Interior Department has to conduct environmental and safety reviews of offshore drilling projects.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today issued the following statement after voting for cloture on the Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today served her Senate colleagues Gulf Coast seafood gumbo for lunch in participation with Dine America/Dine Louisiana 2010.

Changes are on the way for the Food and Drug Administration, and the nation's food producers, at least if the Senate has any say in the matter.  Senator Mary Landrieu gives details in this press release.