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John B. Breaux is a former United States Senator from Louisiana, serving from 1996 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Breaux previously held a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. During his time in the Senate, he was known for his work on health care, tax reform, and energy policy. Breaux played a significant role in the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and was involved in various bipartisan efforts throughout his career.
the program, over the years, has been one of the more successful partnerships between the government--not in direct subsidies, but merely in allowing companies to go to the private sector to use private capital which the Federal Government…
the amount that we have in so many of our programs is just incredible in comparison to this one.
It's certainly not a newsworthy item that someone has found out that there's a Federal program in Washington that could be subject to waste, fraud, and abuse.
I would hope that we'd be able to work something out that would be an improvement and would work with the Chairman to hopefully accomplish that.
if we are going to look in the MARAD program for huge amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse compared to everything else, I would suggest that we're going to be spending a lot of time, with little results.
There's not a lot of programs that we could say that the way we've run them we've actually made money while trying to help people by loaning them money.
As the Senator knows well, this transition period has a substantial impact on the shipyards and their workers who will be asked to construct these future vessels. After the decline in shipbuilding in the last quarter century, our ability…
IRS should not be involved in setting the fees for CEOs in this country. They should not be involved in setting the fees for plumbers or electricians. And they should not be involved in setting the fees for attorneys who have had voluntary…
most people think we are debating a tax cut bill. There are some tax cuts in the bill. But there is also a $35 billion tax increase--a $35 billion tax increase on schoolteachers who work overseas, ministers who work overseas, Catholic…
The bill the Finance Committee has brought to the floor is a tax cut piece of legislation which also raises significant amounts of taxes on American citizens. Tax cuts are a wonderful thing to do, for those of us who are elected officials…
the idea that Congress ought to be involved in how the money is spent is not a novel idea. If we are going to spend $1.135 billion, Congress ought to be involved in saying how it is going to be spent. The bill before the Senate now says…