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U.S. News // 9 years ago

Senate votes down Keystone XL pipeline bill

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu on Tuesday failed in her three-year bid to push the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada.

Energy News // 9 years ago

TransCanada: KXL delays make no sense

The equivalent of eight Keystone XL oil pipelines have been built in the United States since an application was submitted, planner TransCanada said Tuesday.

U.S. News // 9 years ago

Rosebud Sioux tribe: Keystone XL is 'act of war'

Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Cyril Scott, chief of the South Dakota-based tribe, called the passage of the Keystone XL an "an act of war" on their people.

U.S. News // 9 years ago

Keystone XL passes House, heads to Senate

The House of Representatives voted Friday to authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, setting up a final vote expected next week in the Senate.

Energy News // 9 years ago

Keystone XL may be Landrieu's swan song

Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu said she's finally won her three-year fight to put the GOP-backed Keystone XL oil pipeline up for a Senate vote.

U.S. News // 9 years ago

DSCC pulls funding from Mary Landrieu's runoff campaign

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is pulling funding from La. Sen. Mary Landrieu, as she prepares to face challenger Billy Cassidy in a December runoff.

U.S. News // 9 years ago

Angus King, Joe Manchin won't join GOP in Senate

Independent Sen. Angus King gave Democrats a piece of good news Wednesday, when he announced he will continue to caucus with their party in the new term.

U.S. News // 9 years ago

Alaska Senate, gov. races await thousands of absentee votes, could take weeks

The final tallies on Alaska's Senate and governor's races won't be in for several weeks, as tens of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots are counted.

Energy News // 9 years ago

Keystone XL may be filibuster-proof

The outcome of the U.S. midterm elections means there may be enough votes in the full Senate to force a vote on Keystone XL legislation, results show.

U.S. News // 9 years ago

Louisiana Senate race headed for a December runoff

Louisiana voters will likely have to wait until December to decide between Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy, as neither seems poised to outright win the election.

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Mary Loretta Landrieu (pronounced /ˈlændruː/, LAN-droo; born November 23, 1955) is the senior United States Senator from the State of Louisiana, and is the second woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana. Landrieu is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Moon Landrieu and the sister of the current Mayor of New Orleans and former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is among the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate, and is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.

Landrieu was born in Arlington, Virginia to Verna Satterlee and former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu, and raised in New Orleans. She was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Ursuline Academy of New Orleans. She graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1977 where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. Before entering politics, she worked as a real estate agent. She was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1988, representing a New Orleans-based district. She then served as Louisiana state treasurer from 1988–1996, having succeeded the veteran officeholder, Mary Evelyn Parker. In the 1987 primary for treasurer, she defeated two legislative colleagues, Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., chief executive officer at the time of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, and Claude "Buddy" Leach, a former U.S. representative and the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Landrieu gave up the treasurer's office to run for governor of Louisiana in 1995, but finished third in the state's jungle primary (which at that time was considered the actual election in Louisiana). The eventual winner was Democrat-turned-Republican Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.

Landrieu and her husband, attorney Frank Snellings (born 1949), who grew up in Monroe, have two children, Connor and Mary Shannon. Her son Connor is currently an enrolled student at Tulane University in New Orleans.

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