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John Breaux [1944-0] American

Rank: 109
Politician, Former member of the United States Senate

John Berlinger Breaux was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the US House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987.

Politics

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I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.		101
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.		102
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.	Politics	103
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.		104
Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.		105
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.		106
But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.		107
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.		108
When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'		109
When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.		110
There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.		111
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.		112
My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.		113
I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.		114
I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.		115
Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.		116
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.		117
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.		118

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