Mary Landrieu

Senator Landrieu advised me to do this 3 months ago.

We need to be aware of health care and monitoring of toxic exposure, especially for children and the oil spill cleanup workers, and provide primary health care access and services in these coastal communities.

Because I am going to be asking each State to give this Subcommittee a very detailed report of how they spent...

I do not think that is an accurate or full snapshot picture and I would urge us to look at other metrics.

As you may know, Senator Wyden and I and our other West Coast colleagues yesterday reintroduced legislation to permanently ban offshore drilling along the West Coast of the United States.

I want to thank both leaders of this Commission, Senator Graham and Mr. Reilly for your contributions to this effort which is an extremely important subject for our Nation, for the Gulf Coast and particularly for the State of Louisiana…

This industry, 9 months after this accident, deep water drilling is still virtually shut down.

I want to after further review of it, support that concept. I was initially skeptical.

One thing that I'm particularly pleased about because I don't think people expected this is that this committee made an unequivocal or this Commission, comment or statement about the importance of the future of this industry.

On December 17, Senator Lamar Alexander and I introduced the Child Safety, Care and Education Continuity Act of 2010.

Kids are the focal point of the family, and getting them back into school or child care is essential to allowing their parents to get back to work.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a Times-Picayune editorial dated today in support of this and a New York Times editorial of March 2, as well as a letter of support from Secretary Donovan and Secretary…

This massive tax bill has been negotiated by many people of good will. I have had some serious issues with portions of the package. I have expressed those on the floor of the Senate on behalf of the constituents I represent. I think I have…

This Senate is not going to be the same place without the Senator from Indiana. In fact, it will be a lesser place because he has been such an outstanding Senator. I wish to let him know he will be very much missed. He contributed…

I am getting calls, and I am getting about 50 percent for and 50 percent against. The State of Louisiana is a little different than the State of Vermont. Many of the calls coming in from around the country are against giving--well…

There were amendments put on the floor, both by Democrats and Republicans to repeal 1099

We are going to continue every day, all day, to try to get this 1099 problem resolved

We did not shove the bill down your throat, we gave you a year to come up with a way to provide Americans with healthcare

I am committed to working with my colleagues to protect small business owners from this burden before it goes into effect in 2012.

It concerns me that OSHA is undermining the cooperative relationship by taking these steps that are going to be additionally onerous to small business.

Not in this economy. Not now. Not for small businesses.

It is long overdue that we require the Federal Government to finally consider the indirect economic costs in addition to direct economic costs of Federal rules and regulations.

The distribution of these regulatory costs is uneven and will disproportionately affect small business.

Without question, federal, administrative, and regulatory burden on businesses large and small continue to grow every year.

It is just unconscionable that fees and administrative burdens for small businesses have gone up so substantially.