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...infamous remark that no one could have foreseen the levee breaking. His inability to see any moral distinction between those who steal water and those who loot TV sets seemed odd-and at odds with local politicians like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Then where was the call for sacrifice? While southern governors like Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue worried publicly about gas shortfalls as soon as this weekend and begged for conservation, Bush seemed to do so only as an afterthought...
...foreign policy and military action at the forefront of public debate. The nation’s most powerful leaders on national security and terrorism have been and still are women: former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and current White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Today, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) serves as the chair of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee...
Hunt, who was unavailable for comment, gave a total of $317,000. Other than two gifts of $1,000 each—to the Congressional reelection campaigns of Gephardt and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.—Hunt’s cash went to the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Party umbrella funds...
...even the Federal Government makes up the difference in pay for the 14,000 or so of its civilian employees who have been called up - a situation that Senators Dick Durbin, Mary Landrieu and Barbara Mikulski are seeking to rectify in recently introduced legislation. Landrieu is also fighting to give a tax break to companies that supplement the military pay of their workers while they are on active duty. And Senator (and presidential contender) John Edwards has introduced legislation to suspend interest on the student loans of activated reservists as well as to expand day-care services for their children...
...vital, if patchy, data that sputtered down from Columbia after voice communications were lost. As NASA scrambled to manage events, officials in Washington began taking sides, some sharpening the long knives for the agency, others lining up to defend it. "Space exploration will go on," says Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. "[But] there will be intense investigations...