Editing Mary Landrieu

{{Short description|American politician (born 1955)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Mary Landrieu
| image               = Mary Landrieu Senate portrait.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2009
| jr/sr               = United States Senator
| state               = [[Louisiana]]
| term_start          = January 3, 1997
| term_end            = January 3, 2015
| predecessor         = [[J. Bennett Johnston]]
| successor           = [[Bill Cassidy]]
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{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes
| office1             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Energy Committee]]
| term_start1         = February 12, 2014
| term_end1           = January 3, 2015
| predecessor1        = [[Ron Wyden]]
| successor1          = [[Lisa Murkowski]]
| office2             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship|Senate Small Business Committee]]
| term_start2         = January 3, 2009
| term_end2           = February 12, 2014
| predecessor2        = [[John Kerry]]
| successor2          = [[Maria Cantwell]]
}}
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
| office3             = [[Louisiana State Treasurer|Treasurer of Louisiana]]
| governor3           = [[Edwin Edwards]]<br>[[Buddy Roemer]]
| term_start3         = January 1, 1988
| term_end3           = January 8, 1996
| predecessor3        = [[Mary Evelyn Parker]]
| successor3          = Ken Duncan
| state_house4        = Louisiana
| district4           = 90th
| term_start4         = 1980
| term_end4           = 1988
| predecessor4        = [[Clyde F. Bel Jr.]]
| successor4          = [[Mitch Landrieu]]
| birth_name          = Mary Loretta Landrieu
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1955|11|23}}
| birth_place         = [[Arlington County, Virginia]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Frank Snellings|1988}}
| children            = 2
| parents             = [[Moon Landrieu]] (father)
| relations           = [[Mitch Landrieu]] (brother)
| education           = [[Louisiana State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| signature           = Mary Landrieu Signature.gif
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'''Mary Loretta Landrieu''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|æ|n|d|r|uː}} {{respell|LAN|drew}};<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-156553918.html AP News Pronunciation Guide]</ref> born November 23, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and politician who served as a [[United States Senate|United States senator]] from [[Louisiana]] from 1997 to 2015. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], Landrieu served as the [[Louisiana State Treasurer]] from 1988 to 1996, and in the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] from 1980 to 1988.

Landrieu came to national attention in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005 after she publicly criticized the federal response to the natural disaster. Her opposition to the [[public health insurance option|public option]] played a major role in the crafting of the 2010 [[Affordable Care Act]], since she did not agree to support it until additional concessions were granted to support Louisiana's [[Medicaid]] system. In 2011, she became a cardinal (chair) of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. She chaired the [[United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship|Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship]] from 2009 to 2014, and chaired the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources]] from 2014 to 2015. As of 2025, Landrieu is the most recent Democrat to serve in the U.S. Senate from Louisiana.

==Early life and education==
Landrieu was born in [[Arlington County, Virginia]], on November 23, 1955, and raised in [[New Orleans]], Louisiana. She is the daughter of [[Moon Landrieu]], former [[mayor of New Orleans]] and [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|U.S. secretary]] of the [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development|Department of Housing and Urban Development]], and the sister of [[Mitch Landrieu]], who was a former mayor of New Orleans and [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]]. She was raised as [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hockstader |first=Lee |date=2024-01-24 |title=Trash Talk Drags La. Runoff Through Mud |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/07/trash-talk-drags-la-runoff-through-mud/079385bd-ae70-453b-928c-83d958aac57c/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

She attended [[Ursuline Academy (New Orleans)|Ursuline Academy]] in New Orleans.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2008-07-28 |title=Mary Landrieu (D) |url=https://www.ktbs.com/news/mary-landrieu-d/article_90533666-2dc5-5b2f-996a-143bdbe08039.html |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=[[KTBS]] |language=en}}</ref> While a student at Ursuline, Landrieu participated in the [[Close Up Foundation|Close Up Washington]] civic education program.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Milloy |first=Courtland |date=2024-01-30 |title=The Pied Piper Of Democracy In Action |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/07/06/the-pied-piper-of-democracy-in-action/6384810a-9e15-441b-a63c-f7cb4de6734f/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

In 1977, she graduated from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] with a degree in sociology,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wayne |first=Leslie |date=1994-07-06 |title=Politics and Municipal Bonds: A Bubbling Stew in Louisiana |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/06/us/politics-and-municipal-bonds-a-bubbling-stew-in-louisiana.html |access-date=2024-02-21 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> where she was a member of [[Delta Gamma]] [[sorority]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Tim |title=Will it take a keg stand for Mary Landrieu to get reelected? |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/mary-landrieu-keg-stand-baton-rouge-lsu-tigers/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Career==
After graduating from Louisiana State University, Landrieu worked as a real estate agent.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Northey |first=Hannah |date=2019-03-20 |title=Energy talk's on the menu at a Mary Landrieu house party |url=https://www.eenews.net/articles/energy-talks-on-the-menu-at-a-mary-landrieu-house-party/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=[[Environment & Energy Publishing|E&E News]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

===State legislature===
Landrieu was first elected to the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] in 1979, serving from 1980 to 1988 and representing a New Orleans district. She was re-elected to the 90th district in October 1983 with 78% of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10221983/10221983_Legislative.html|title=Louisiana Secretary of State Official Election Results Results for Election Date: October 22, 1983|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> In October 1987, she was succeeded in the 90th district by her brother Mitch.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10241987/10241987_Legislative.html|title=Louisiana Secretary of State Official Election Results Results for Election Date: 10/24/1987|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

On July 25, 1995, ''[[The Times-Picayune]]'' reported that, as a state representative, Landrieu awarded [[Tulane University]] tuition waivers to a former campaign manager.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bridges|first=Tyler|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0FA5C33B469A1CD4|title=Treen's son, Landrieu aide got waivers to Tulane|work=The Times-Picayune|place=New Orleans|date=July 25, 1995|page=A1|access-date=May 2, 2020|via=NewsBank}}</ref>

===State treasurer===
On January 1, 1987, [[Louisiana State Treasurer|State Treasurer]] [[Mary Evelyn Parker]], the longtime Democratic incumbent, resigned with nearly a year and a half left in her fifth term. Landrieu ran to succeed her in both the special and regularly scheduled elections, both held in October 1987. No Republican filed to run, so Landrieu faced only Democratic opponents. She came first on both ballots with 44%. She defeated two legislative colleagues, State Rep. Kevin Reilly Sr., chief executive officer of [[Lamar Advertising Company]] in Baton Rouge, who came second in the special and regular elections, with 33% and 32%, respectively, and State Rep. [[Buddy Leach]], a former U.S. Representative, who came third in both elections with 15%. Tom Burbank, son of Thomas D. Burbank Sr., former head of the state police, came in last in both elections with 9% of the vote.<ref>[http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10241987/10241987_Statewide.html Louisiana Secretary of State Official Election Results Results], staticresults.sos.la.gov; accessed January 5, 2015.</ref> Reilly decided not to contest a [[runoff election]], known in Louisiana as a "general election", and Landrieu won the treasurer's position by default.<ref>[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263724 LA State Treasurer 1987], ourcampaigns.com; accessed January 5, 2015.</ref> In 1991, Landrieu was unopposed for re-election.<ref>[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=226158 LA State Treasurer 1991], ourcampaigns.com; accessed January 5, 2015.</ref>

===1995 gubernatorial election===
Landrieu declined to run for a third term as Treasurer, giving up the office to run for [[Governor of Louisiana|governor]] in the [[Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1995|1995 election]]. The other major candidates in the race were Democratic U.S. Representative [[Cleo Fields]]; State Senator [[Murphy J. Foster, Jr.]], who switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican when he filed; Democratic attorney [[Phil Preis]]; Republican former Governor [[Buddy Roemer]]; and Democratic [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana|Lieutenant Governor]] [[Melinda Schwegmann]]. Landrieu finished third in the state's [[nonpartisan blanket primary]] with 18% of the vote, finishing 8,983 votes behind Fields, who came second with 19% of the vote. Roemer came fourth with 18%, Preis was fifth with 9% and Schwegmann came sixth with 5%. Foster came first with 26% and went on to defeat Fields in the runoff with 64% of the vote. Landrieu was succeeded as state treasurer by her fellow Democrat Ken Duncan, a Baton Rouge attorney and businessman.

==U.S. Senate==
===Elections===
[[File:MaryLandrieu bookcase lg.jpg|thumb|Landrieu during the [[108th United States Congress|108th Congress]] as [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Louisiana]]]]
Landrieu was elected in [[1996 United States Senate election in Louisiana|1996]] to the [[List of United States senators from Louisiana|U.S. Senate seat]] previously held by [[Bennett Johnston Jr.|John Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] of [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]] after winning a close and controversial [[Two-round system|runoff election]].<ref>{{cite news|first=James|last=Carney|title=No Saints in New Orleans|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986643,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202213155/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986643,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 2, 2008|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=July 7, 1997|access-date=September 23, 2011}}</ref> (The runoff election is what other states would call "the general election" of a federal seat.) She defeated [[Louisiana House of Representatives|state Representative]] [[Woody Jenkins]] of [[Baton Rouge]]. Landrieu narrowly won re-election in [[2002 United States Senate election in Louisiana|2002]]. She defeated state [[Election commission|Election Commissioner]] [[Suzanne Haik Terrell]] of New Orleans. Some experts and pundits had considered Landrieu as a possible running mate for presidential candidate [[John Kerry]] in the 2004 election before he selected then- Senator [[John Edwards]] of [[North Carolina]]. In 2004 Landrieu became Louisiana's senior senator upon the retirement of [[John Breaux]], who was replaced by Republican [[David Vitter]].

In [[2008 United States Senate election in Louisiana|2008]], she won a relatively comfortable 52% to 46% re-election to a third term in a race against her challenger, [[Louisiana State Treasurer|state Treasurer]] [[John Neely Kennedy]]. He was a former Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|first=Katherine|last=Skiba|url=https://www.usnews.com/articles/news/politics/2008/03/14/senate-majority-no-longer-republicans-goal.html|title=Senate Majority No Longer Republicans' Goal|publisher=U.S. News & World Report|date=March 14, 2008|access-date=June 4, 2008}}</ref>

Landrieu sought re-election in [[2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana|2014]]. Former President [[Bill Clinton]] campaigned on her behalf in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hasten|first1=Mike|title=Clinton seeks to give Landrieu campaign boost|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/20/landrieu-hopes-clinton-gives-campaign-boost/17612657/|access-date=October 30, 2014|publisher=The News Star|date=October 20, 2014}}</ref>  While Landrieu garnered 42% of the vote she fell short of the 50.1% required for re-election. She was defeated in the December 6, 2014, runoff election by her Republican opponent, Congressman [[Bill Cassidy]], by a 56% to 44% margin. 
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/10731395-123/mary-landrieu-bill-cassidy-move|title=Mary Landrieu, Bill Cassidy move on to Dec. 6 runoff for U.S. Senate|publisher=The Advocate|date=November 10, 2014|access-date=November 27, 2014|author=Roberts, Gregory}}</ref>

===Tenure===
In 2002, she voted for the [[Iraq Resolution]], and in 2003, she issued a statement indicating that, "The time for diplomacy has ended."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=15 |title=Statement in Reaction To Pending War on Iraq |date=March 17, 2003 |access-date=October 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016231041/http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=15 |archive-date=October 16, 2014 }}</ref> She voted for the [[Class Action Fairness Act of 2005]] and the [[Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act]].

In 2005, Landrieu sponsored a resolution, which the Senate passed in an unprecedented action, to formally apologize for its repeated failure in the early twentieth century to pass anti-[[lynching]] legislation.<ref name="AP">[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159348,00.html Associated Press, "Senate Apologizes for Not Passing Anti-Lynching Laws"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510065443/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159348,00.html |date=May 10, 2012 }}, Fox News; accessed January 5, 2015.</ref> The Senate Southern white Democrats had filibustered the [[Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill|Dyer bill]] in 1922<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/12/03/109338699.pdf "Filibuster Kills Anti-Lynching Bil"], ''The New York Times'', December 3, 1922; accessed July 20, 2011.</ref> and two other bills that passed the House. She held high-profile hearings on the mistakes of the [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] (FEMA) in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and [[Hurricane Rita|Rita]] in 2005.

Subsequent to the 2006 mid-term elections, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced (along with Republican [[Olympia Snowe]] of Maine) the formation of the "Common Ground Coalition", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kplctv.com/story/9527784/sen-landrieu-to-chair-senate-small-gfbusiness-committee|title=Sen. Landrieu to Chair Senate Small Business Committee|date=December 15, 2008|access-date=October 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016184632/http://www.kplctv.com/story/9527784/sen-landrieu-to-chair-senate-small-gfbusiness-committee|archive-date=October 16, 2014}}</ref>

Landrieu voted to raise the estate tax exemption to $5&nbsp;million in 2008,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elderlawanswers.com/fixing-estate-tax-at-2009-level-appears-to-have-senate-support--6151|title=Fixing Estate Tax at 2009 Level Appears to Have Senate Support|publisher=ElderLawAnswers|access-date=October 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019174335/http://www.elderlawanswers.com/fixing-estate-tax-at-2009-level-appears-to-have-senate-support--6151|archive-date=October 19, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> but voted against repeal of the estate tax in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=as1EqfI2r5mk|title=Estate Tax Reduction, Passed by House, Faces Test in Senate|work=Bloomberg|date=June 23, 2006|access-date=October 18, 2013}}</ref>

On December 15, 2008, it was announced that Landrieu would become chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship for the 111th Congress when former Chairman [[John Kerry]] left to lead the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], previously headed by Vice President-elect [[Joe Biden]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History - U.S. Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship |url=https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/history |website=sbc.senate.gov |access-date=9 March 2025}}</ref>

In September 2010, Landrieu announced she would hold up OMB director [[Jacob Lew]]’s confirmation until the administration lifted or eased a federal freeze on [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|deepwater oil-and-gas drilling]]. Her delay of Lew's nomination came despite broad bipartisan support for appointing him to OMB. The Senate Budget Committee recommended that Lew be confirmed on a 22–1 vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71173-omb-nomination-delay-would-mean-no-adviser-for-key-budget-period/|title=OMB nomination delay would mean no adviser for key budget period|work=TheHill|date=September 27, 2010|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Landrieu "is one of the lawmakers leading for more natural gas exports".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mufson|first1=Steven|title=Can U.S. natural gas rescue Ukraine from Russia?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/25/can-u-s-natural-gas-rescue-ukraine-from-russia|access-date=August 15, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 25, 2014}}</ref>

On December 18, 2010, Landrieu voted in favor of the [[Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00281|title=Roll Call Vote|date=August 12, 2014|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/senate/2/281?ref=politics |work=The New York Times |title=Senate Vote 281 – Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027055830/http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/senate/2/281?ref=politics |archive-date=October 27, 2015 }}</ref> In 2011, she became chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, giving her significant influence in the funding of federal agencies like the [[U.S. Coast Guard]], [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] and FEMA. On April 17, 2013, Landrieu voted to expand background checks for gun purchases.<ref name="S.Amdt 715 to S.649">{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00097|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress – 1st Session|work=Legislation & Records|publisher=[[United States Senate]]|access-date=July 30, 2013}}</ref>

In April 2014, the United States Senate debated the [[Minimum Wage Fairness Act (S. 1737; 113th Congress)]]. The bill would amend the [[Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938]] (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period.<ref name=1737sum>{{cite web|title=S. 1737 – Summary|date=April 2, 2014|url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1737|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=April 8, 2014}}</ref> The bill was strongly supported by President [[Barack Obama]] and many of the Democratic senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House.<ref name=ObamaClearChoice>{{cite news|last=Sink|first=Justin|title=Obama: Congress has 'clear choice' on minimum wage|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/202475-obama-congress-has-clear-choice-on-minimum-wage/|access-date=April 9, 2014|newspaper=The Hill|date=April 2, 2014}}</ref><ref name=Reidpunts>{{cite news|last=Bolton|first=Alexander|title=Reid punts on minimum-wage hike|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/202964-reid-punts-on-minimum-wage-hike/|access-date=April 9, 2014|newspaper=The Hill|date=April 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name=CentristRepubs>{{cite news|last=Bolton|first=Alexander|title=Centrist Republicans cool to minimum wage hike compromise|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/202641-centrist-republicans-cool-to-wage-compromise/|access-date=April 9, 2014|newspaper=The Hill|date=April 4, 2014}}</ref> She wanted additional debate on the timeline and the raise for tipped workers.<ref name="Reidpunts"/> Landrieu said that "I do not believe that $10.10 an hour is too high to aspire to, but how quickly we get there and what increments, the tipped wage, how that should be handled, who should get paid the tipped wage, and who shouldn't. There are a lot of questions about that, and some of those discussions are going on."<ref name="Reidpunts"/>

====Health care====
Landrieu opposed the [[public health insurance option]] in the [[America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/09/mary-landrieu-opposed-to_n_213211.html|title=Mary Landrieu Opposed To Public Health Care Option|date=June 9, 2009|work=The Huffington Post|author=Ryan Grim}}</ref> ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140209095930/http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text HR 3200]) until the bill was rewritten to send a $300,000,000 payment to Medicaid for her home state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html|title=The $100 Million Health Care Vote|date=November 21, 2009|publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|author=Rich Klein|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131152308/http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html|archive-date=January 31, 2016}}</ref> When two pages were added to the bill to place $300&nbsp;million in Louisiana's Medicaid system, she changed her [[web page]] in order to reflect her support of the program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://landrieu.senate.gov/2009/index.cfm |title=The Importance of Health Care Reform |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123143806/http://landrieu.senate.gov/2009/index.cfm |archive-date=January 23, 2010 }}</ref> Conservative figures referred to the deal as the "Louisiana Purchase".<ref name="content.usatoday.com">{{cite news|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/02/sen-landrieu-says-gop-governor-sought-louisiana-purchase/1|work=USA Today|title=Sen. Landrieu: No apologies for so-called Louisiana purchase|date=February 4, 2010|access-date=May 12, 2010|first=Eugene|last=Kiely}}</ref> A typographical error in the bill resulted in $4.3 billion in additional funds for Medicaid for Louisiana.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-new-louisiana-purchase-obamacares-43-billion-boondoggle/254003/
| title = The $4 Billion Typo in Obamacare's 'Louisiana Purchase'
| website = Forbes
| date = March 6, 2012
| access-date = March 1, 2016
}}</ref> As a result, prominent conservative figures [[Glenn Beck]] and [[Rush Limbaugh]] called her a "high-priced prostitute".<ref>{{cite news|author=Pedro Martinez Monsivais|agency=Associated Press|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/sen_mary_landrieu_has_become_a.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125070941/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/sen_mary_landrieu_has_become_a.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 25, 2010|title=Sen. Mary Landrieu has become a leading booster of health care overhaul proposal| work=Times Picayune|location=New Orleans, Louisiana|date=December 17, 2009|access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref> Days later, Sen. Landrieu took to the Senate floor to defend her vote by detailing the timeline of her Medicaid funding request. Landrieu noted her $300 million request was made before President Barack Obama was sworn into office.<ref name=":0" />

On November 21, 2009, Landrieu voted with fifty-nine other senators to bring the health care bill up for debate. On December 8, 2009, she voted against the Nelson–Hatch–Casey amendment which proposed to ban federal funding for private plans that covered elective abortions but would have allowed individuals to purchase separate individual riders that would cover abortions.<ref name="content.usatoday.com"/> Prior to a concession of $300&nbsp;million being added to the bill, Landrieu responded to a question on [[Public opinion on health care reform in the United States#Public option|popular support of the public option]], and asserted that the option has popular support because "when people hear 'public option' they hear 'free health care'. Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don't have to pay for."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/15/landrieu-public-option/|title=Landrieu Says The Public Option Is Popular Because 'Everybody Wants Free Health Care{{'-}}|work=[[Think Progress]]|author=Zaid Jilani|date=October 15, 2009}}</ref>

Landrieu voted for the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] (known as "[[Obamacare]]") in December 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396|title=Roll Call Vote|date=August 12, 2014|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> In September 2013, Landrieu voted to restore funding for the ACA that House Republicans had eliminated in their version of the funding bill.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00208|title=S.Amdt.1974|publisher=U.S. Senate|access-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-attacks-vulnerable-dems-who-refused-to-defund-obamacare/article/2536424|title=GOP attacks vulnerable Dems who refused to defund Obamacare|author=Rebecca Berg|date=September 26, 2013|magazine=Washington Examiner|access-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html|title=Senate tosses shutdown hot potato back to House|author=Tom Cohen|date=September 27, 2013|publisher=CNN}}</ref>

On March 1, 2012, Landrieu voted against a measure that would have repealed a birth control mandate in the health care bill.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/sens_mary_landrieu_and_david_v_1.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906073223/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/sens_mary_landrieu_and_david_v_1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2012|work=Times Picayune|location=New Orleans|title=Sens Mary Landrieu and David Vitter split on amendment on contraceptive coverage}}</ref> In October 2013, she introduced a bill to force health insurance companies to re-issue plans which they have cancelled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/healthcare/2022193095_apxhealthoverhaulproblems.html |title=Sebelius faces lawmakers anew on health care law |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=October 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022125858/http://seattletimes.com/html/healthcare/2022193095_apxhealthoverhaulproblems.html |archive-date=October 22, 2014 }}</ref>

====Hurricane Katrina====
[[File:LANDPRESS.jpg|thumb|U.S. Senator Landrieu (center) joins Women of the Storm from the [[Gulf Coast]]]]
In the weeks following [[Hurricane Katrina]], Landrieu and fellow Senator [[David Vitter]] co-sponsored the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act of 2005 (S.1765),<ref>[http://landrieu.senate.gov/hurricanes/s.1765.pdf Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325005228/http://landrieu.senate.gov/hurricanes/s.1765.pdf |date=March 25, 2009 }}</ref> a 440-page aid package worth an estimated $250&nbsp;billion<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/politics/23congress.html|title=Louisiana Lawmakers Propose $250 Billion Recovery Package|date=September 23, 2005|last=Hulse|first=Carl|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 13, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/25/AR2005092501413_pf.html|title=Louisiana Goes After Federal Billions|date=September 26, 2005|author1=Grunwald, Michael  |author2=Glasser, Susan B. |name-list-style=amp |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=October 13, 2008}}</ref> The bill was read twice by Congress, then referred to the [[United States Senate Committee on Finance]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-1765|title=S. 1765: Louisiana Katrina Reconstruction Act|publisher=GovTrack.us|date=September 22, 2005|access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref>

Separate legislation was passed to provide $1&nbsp;billion in loans to communities affected by Katrina despite Landrieu's objection to the provision insisted on by Republicans that prohibited the loans from being forgiven. In 2007, when Democrats took control of the House and Senate, they passed legislation written by Landrieu that authorized FEMA to forgive the loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/on_the_hill_it_only_took_8_yea.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324151443/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/on_the_hill_it_only_took_8_yea.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 24, 2013|title=On the Hill: It only took 8 years but Katrina loan forgiveness finally near|work=NOLA.com|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>
However, 40% of the loans were not forgiven by FEMA, which led Landrieu to insert addition provisions into the 2013 federal spending bill to forgive the remainder of these loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/house_approves_budget_bill_tha.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324005017/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/house_approves_budget_bill_tha.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 24, 2013|title=House approves budget bill that can lead to forgiveness of Katrina disaster loans|work=NOLA.com|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/11/federal_government_cancels_st.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110015629/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/11/federal_government_cancels_st.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 10, 2013|title=Federal government cancels St. Tammany's $14.5 million debt for Katrina loans|work=NOLA.com|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

Landrieu's national name recognition rose in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as she made multiple TV appearances to discuss the response effort.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite news|last=Hudson|first=Gregory|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/389699516|title=Landrieu seat among most vulnerable this election cycle|newspaper=[[The Times (Shreveport)]]|date=August 3, 2008|access-date=November 14, 2013|id={{ProQuest|389699516}} }}</ref> Landrieu was noted in [[The New York Times]] as becoming "a national spokeswoman for victims of the hurricane" as she complained of "the staggering incompetence of the national government."<ref name="Stolberg">{{cite news|last=Stolberg|first=Sheryl Gay|author-link=Sheryl Gay Stolberg|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09landrieu.html?ei=5088&en=4d94fc3b6fddab5c&ex=1283918400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1157043824-WLUFUlPbYBXbz7jqFzVfww|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424093023/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09landrieu.html?pagewanted=all|archive-date=24 April 2009|title=La. Senator Returns to Capitol to Denounce Bush|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 9, 2005|access-date=June 4, 2008}}</ref>  She was particularly critical of [[George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]], who, in turn, was critical of her in his 2010 memoir ''[[Decision Points]]'', in which he related telling her to be quiet after she interrupted him in a meeting with what he called an "unproductive emotional outburst".<ref>{{cite news |last=Alpert|first=Bruce|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/post_370.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131114165734/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/post_370.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 14, 2013|title=Bush recalls Katrina aftermath in 'Decision Points' memoir|newspaper=The Times-Picayune|date=November 8, 2010|access-date=November 14, 2013}}</ref>

====Judicial nominations====
Landrieu voted for the confirmation of Chief Justice [[John Roberts]] in 2005,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00245|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 1st Session|work=United States Senate|access-date=June 15, 2014}}</ref> but in 2006, she opposed [[Samuel Alito]]; she voted in favor of [[cloture]] to send the nomination to an up-or-down vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00001|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session|work=United States Senate|access-date=June 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00002 |title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session |work=United States Senate |access-date=June 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829201552/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00002 |archive-date=August 29, 2008 }}</ref> She voted for both [[Sonia Sotomayor]] in 2009 and [[Elena Kagan]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00262|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress – 1st Session|work=United States Senate|access-date=June 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00229|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress – 2nd Session|work=United States Senate|access-date=June 15, 2014}}</ref>

====USA Patriot Act====
On August 3, 2007, Landrieu broke ranks with Democrats when she and Louisiana Rep. [[Charlie Melancon]] sided with Republicans and the Bush administration in voting for the [[Protect America Act]], an amendment to the [[USA Patriot Act]] further expanding wiretap powers.<ref name="Senate-S1927">{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00309|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress – 1st Session: On Passage of the Bill (S.1927 as Amended) |work=Legislation & Records|publisher=[[United States Senate]]|access-date=June 4, 2008}}</ref>

In 2011, she was the inadvertent Senate sponsor of the four-year extension to the Patriot Act when Senator Reid amended a small business bill introduced by Landrieu as a means of avoiding a threatened filibuster by Senator Rand Paul. Landrieu joined the majority in voting for the extension, which passed 72–23.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s990|title=PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 (2011; 112th Congress S. 990) – GovTrack.us|work=GovTrack.us|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://badecho.com/2011/07/patriotact/|title=How the 'PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011′ Came to Be|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

====Conservative activists convicted in failed sting attempt====
On January 25, 2010, four [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[activist]]s, including Stan Dai, Joseph Basel, both 24; Robert Flanagan, son of Bill Flanagan, acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana; and conservative [[filmmaker]] [[James O'Keefe]], were arrested by US Marshals and subsequently charged with entering a federal facility under false pretenses for entering Landrieu's New Orleans office under the guise of being telephone repairmen. The crew intended to record their interactions with Landrieu's staff.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_ab98765d-83a7-5b89-88fd-0414dae353f1.html|title=James O'Keefe remains defiant despite pleading guilty in failed Mary Landrieu office caper|work=[[The Times-Picayune]]|date=May 27, 2010|first1=Ramon|last1=Vargas}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/01/26/ST2010012604182.html?hpid=topnews|title=James O'Keefe charged in alleged phone tampering of Senator Mary Landrieu's office|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 27, 2009|access-date=January 26, 2010|first1=Carol D.|last1=Leonnig|first2=Garance|last2=Franke-Ruta}}</ref> Two of the activists posed as telephone repair technicians in order to gain access to the telephone system. O'Keefe admitted to secretly "recording" the interactions with the staff with his cell phone and aiding in the "planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation."<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/012610_affidavit.pdf Special Agent Stephen Rayes, "Affidavit"], foxnews.com; accessed January 5, 2015.</ref>

On March 27, 2010, the U.S. Attorney reduced the charges to entering federal property under false pretenses, a misdemeanor charge.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/27/charges-reduced-in-landrieu-phone-incident-2/?fbid=rcsdguLU6yL#more-96957|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219072811/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/27/charges-reduced-in-landrieu-phone-incident-2/?fbid=rcsdguLU6yL#more-96957|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 19, 2012|work=CNN|title=Charges reduced in Landrieu phone incident|access-date=May 12, 2010|date=March 27, 2010}}</ref> On May 26, 2010, all four pleaded guilty before Magistrate Daniel Knowles III in a [[New Orleans]] federal court. Three of the four received two years' probation, 75 hours of community service and $1,500 fines; while James O'Keefe received a sentence of three years' probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011971739_landrieusentence28.html |work=The Seattle Times |title=Four plead guilty over incident at Sen. Landrieu's office |first=Campbell |last=Robertson |date=May 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629014102/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011971739_landrieusentence28.html |archive-date=June 29, 2011 }}</ref>

===="Air Mary" controversy====
There was a controversy over Landrieu's payment of airline flights with Senate money, some of which may have violated campaign finance law.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/mary-landrieu-travel-fundraising-trips-110114.html|title=Mary Landrieu faces more travel questions|first1=John|last1=Bresnaham|first2=Manu|last2=Raju|date=August 18, 2014|work=Politico|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> Landrieu's opponents called attention to the controversy, launching a campaign called "Air Mary". Activists dressed as pilots, flight attendants, and ground crew workers greeted her at her campaign appearances.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/08/mary_landrieu_campaign_will_pa.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824212548/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/08/mary_landrieu_campaign_will_pa.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 24, 2014|title=Mary Landrieu campaign will pay for investigation into senator's flights|work=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans|date=August 20, 2014|first=Cole|last=Avery|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/10044544-171/qualifying-begins|title=Landrieu, Cassidy among first-day election qualifiers|work=The Advocate|location=Baton Rouge, LA|date=October 16, 2014|first1=Mark|last1=Ballard|first2=Marsha|last2=Shuler|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

In August 2014, after it was reported that Landrieu violated federal law by using taxpayer dollars to charter at least four private flights to campaign events, Landrieu announced that she had ordered an internal investigation into all of her flights during her time in the Senate.<ref name=CNNflights>{{cite news|last1=Frates|first1=Chris|title=Exclusive: Sen. Mary Landrieu's campaign flight was charged to taxpayers|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/politics/sen-mary-landrieu-campaign-finance|access-date=August 14, 2014|publisher=CNN|date=August 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name=ABCflights>{{cite news|last1=Phelps|first1=Jordyn|title=Mary Landrieu Takes Heat for Spending Public Money on Private Flight|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/08/mary-landrieu-takes-heat-for-spending-public-money-on-private-flight|access-date=August 14, 2014|publisher=ABC News|date=August 13, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bresnahan|first=John|date=August 18, 2014 |title=Mary Landrieu faces more travel questions|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/mary-landrieu-travel-fundraising-trips-110114.html|newspaper=Politico|access-date=September 13, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Frates|first=Chris|date=August 14, 2014|title=Sen. Mary Landrieu to reimburse Senate for charter flight|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/13/politics/mary-landrieu-campaign-finance/index.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=September 13, 2014}}</ref> In September 2014, Landrieu revealed that the internal investigation into her flights had concluded that, since she had entered the Senate, she had improperly charged her Senate office $33,700 for private flights to campaign events.<ref>{{cite news|last=Avery|first=Cole|date=September 12, 2014|title=Mary Landrieu internal investigation finds $33,700 in improperly charged flights|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/mary_landrieu_internal_investi.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140914074334/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/mary_landrieu_internal_investi.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 14, 2014|newspaper=The Times-Picayune|access-date=September 13, 2014}}</ref> Landrieu originally said the charter company mistakenly billed Landrieu's Senate office instead of her re-election campaign.<ref name=CNNflights/><ref name=ABCflights/>

===Committee assignments===
* '''[[United States Senate Committee on Appropriations|Committee on Appropriations]]'''
** [[United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development|Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development]]
** [[United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government|Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government]]
** [[United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security|Subcommittee on Homeland Security]] (Chair)
** [[United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies|Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies]]
** [[United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies|Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies]]
** [[United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs|Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs]]
* '''[[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Committee on Energy and Natural Resources]]''' (Chair)
** [[United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Energy|Subcommittee on Energy]]
** [[United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on National Parks|Subcommittee on National Parks]]
** [[United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests|Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests]]
* '''[[United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs|Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs]]'''
** [[United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia|Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia]]
** [[United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration|Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration]]
** [[United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery|Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery]] (Chair)
* '''[[United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship|Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship]]'''<ref>{{USCongRec|2009|S729}}</ref>

===Caucus memberships===
* [[Senate Oceans Caucus]]
* Senate Natural Gas Caucus, co-chair
* Congressional Coalition on Adoption, co-chair
* Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, co-chair

==Political positions==
[[File:Mary Landrieu DNC 2008.jpg|thumb|Landrieu speaks during the second day of the [[2008 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Denver]]]]
Landrieu was one of the more conservative [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] in the U.S. Senate.<ref name="lends">{{Cite news|title=Biden lends support to La. Democrat in GOP country|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/26/biden-lends-support-to-la-democrat-in-gop-country|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129043841/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/26/biden-lends-support-to-la-democrat-in-gop-country/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 29, 2013|date=January 26, 2013|work=PoliticalTicker...|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=November 7, 2014}}</ref><ref name="forbes">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/lml45mdke/mary-landrieu-d-louisiana|title=Which Of the 20 Woman Senators Could Be The First Female President of the U.S.|work=Forbes|access-date=August 22, 2013|first=Meghan|last=Casserly}}</ref><ref name="morally">{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/mary-landrieu-obamamcconn_n_793272.html|title=Mary Landrieu: 'Obama-McConnell Plan' Is 'Almost Morally Corrupt'|work=The Huffington Post|date=December 7, 2012|access-date=August 22, 2013}}</ref> The [[American Conservative Union]] rated Landrieu as 40% conservative in 2007, which was the highest score of any sitting Democrat and higher than the scores of two [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/interest-group/1481/rating/3960#.UhUCGRukpF4|title=Project Vote Smart – The Voter's Self Defense System|work=Project Vote Smart|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> In 2012, her lifetime rating is 21%,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/661/mary-landrieu|title=Project Vote Smart – The Voter's Self Defense System|work=Project Vote Smart|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> which is the-fourth highest rating among Democrats in the Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/interest-group/1481/rating/6734?p=2&of=rating#.UhqNBBukpHQ|title=Project Vote Smart – The Voter's Self Defense System|work=Project Vote Smart|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>  For 2012 votes, ''[[National Journal]]'' ranked Landrieu as the 47th-most conservative member of the Senate, while the ''[[Times-Picayune]]'' found that she voted in support of President Obama's positions 97% of the time.<ref name="NOLA.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/mary_landrieu_and_bill_cassidy.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306211340/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/mary_landrieu_and_bill_cassidy.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 6, 2014|title=Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy 2013 votes reflect growing congressional partisanship|work=NOLA.com|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

===Abortion===
Landrieu supports abortion rights. She has a 100% rating from the pro-choice group [[NARAL Pro-Choice America|NARAL]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/interest-group/1016/rating/7170#.VCOtr_mwLko|title=Project Vote Smart – The Voter's Self Defense System|work=Project Vote Smart|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> and a 0% rating from the pro-life group Louisiana Right to Life Federation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/interest-group/1920/rating/7594#.VCOtiPmwLko|title=Project Vote Smart – The Voter's Self Defense System|work=Project Vote Smart|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

===Energy===
Landrieu voted to confirm [[Gina McCarthy]] as the administrator of the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/6547447-125/la-senators-split-on-presidential|title=La senators split on presidential nominations vote|access-date=October 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016220802/http://theadvocate.com/home/6547447-125/la-senators-split-on-presidential|archive-date=October 16, 2014}}</ref> Landrieu supports the [[Keystone Pipeline]] and has called for President Obama to approve its construction.<ref name="lends"/>

===Guns===
Landrieu had a "C" rating from the [[NRA Political Victory Fund]] in 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338179/dems-wary-gun-control-katrina-trinko|title=Dems Wary of Gun Control – National Review Online|work=National Review Online|date=January 21, 2013|access-date=October 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123205859/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338179/dems-wary-gun-control-katrina-trinko|archive-date=January 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a "D" rating in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=NRA {{!}} Grades {{!}} Louisiana |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/louisiana/ |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104203936/https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/louisiana/ |archive-date=November 4, 2014 |language=en-US |url-status=usurped}}</ref> The NRA-PVF endorsed her opponent, [[Bill Cassidy]], in the 2014 Louisiana Senate race,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2014/vote-cassidy|title=NRA-PVF – Vote Cassidy|author=NRA-PVF|access-date=October 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930203232/https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2014/vote-cassidy|archive-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref> running a specific attack campaign against Landrieu.<ref>{{cite web |title=NRA-PVF {{!}} Defeat Landrieu |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2014/defeat-landrieu/ |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028195658/https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2014/defeat-landrieu/ |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |language=en-US |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Internet sales tax===
Landrieu voted in favor of an [[Internet sales tax]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/mary_landrieu_part_of_bipartis.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218013929/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/mary_landrieu_part_of_bipartis.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 18, 2013|title=Mary Landrieu part of bipartisan group seeking to make online sales subject to sales taxes|work=NOLA.com|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

===Affordable Care Act ===
Landrieu voted for the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]], commonly known as "Obamacare".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/12/11/250305576/mary-landrieu-wrestles-an-obamacare-alligator|title=Mary Landrieu Wrestles An (Obamacare) Alligator|date=December 11, 2013|work=NPR.org|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> Critics claimed she withheld her vote until she had secured what is now referred to as the "Louisiana Purchase" originally for up to $300,000,000 in additional Medicaid funds to Louisiana, which, due to a typographical error in the healthcare bill, became an additional $4.3 billion for Louisiana's Medicaid program.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-new-louisiana-purchase-obamacares-43-billion-boondoggle/254003/
| title = The New Louisiana Purchase: Obamacare's $4.3 Billion Boondoggle
| last = McArdle
| first = Megan
| website = The Atlantic
| date = March 6, 2012
| language = en-US
| access-date = March 1, 2016
}}</ref> Days later, Sen. Landrieu took to the Senate floor to defend her vote by detailing the timeline of her Medicaid funding request. Landrieu noted her $300 million request was made before President Obama was sworn into office.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Senator Landrieu on Health Care {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?291927-2/senator-landrieu-health-care |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=www.c-span.org}}</ref> When asked by reporters in 2013, Sen. Landrieu said that she would vote for it again if she were given a chance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/12/05/dem_sen_mary_landrieu_i_would_vote_for_obamacare_again.html|title=Dem Sen. Mary Landrieu: I Would Vote For Obamacare Again – Video – RealClearPolitics|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

===Same-sex marriage===
Landrieu personally supports [[same-sex marriage]], but defended the state's constitutional ban on the grounds that a majority of Louisianans voted for it.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/mary-landrieu-gay-marriage-support.html|title=Mary Landrieu Supports Gay Marriage in the Only Way That Matters|first=Dan|last=Amira|work=New York|quote=people should love who they love and marry who they want to marry|date=April 8, 2013|access-date=January 15, 2014}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Landrieu and her husband, [[Attorney at law (United States)|attorney]] Frank Snellings, have two children, Connor and Mary Shannon, and one grandson, Maddox. In December 2014 Frank was the subject of an article in ''[[The Irish Times]]'', having rediscovered his Irish family 44 years after he was adopted in Ireland by the Snellings family from Louisiana.<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/generation-emigration/a-tale-of-two-brothers-separated-for-44-years-1.2044118?page=1 "A tale of two brothers separated for 44 years"], ''The Irish Times'', December 19, 2014.</ref>

==Honors and recognition==
Landrieu was recognized by the [[Order Sons of Italy in America]] as the first woman of [[Italian Americans|Italian-American]] heritage to become a US senator.<ref>{{cite web |title=IADLC Endorses Mary Landrieu |url=http://www.iadlc.org/old-pages/old-press-releases-news/marylandrieu_endorsement |website=www.iadlc.org |access-date=December 10, 2020}}</ref>

==Electoral history==
===1995 gubernatorial election===
{{see also|1995 Louisiana gubernatorial election}}
[[File:LouisianaGovernorOct95.svg|thumb|Jungle primary results by parish in 1995]]
{{Election box begin no change | title=Louisiana gubernatorial election jungle primary, 1995}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Murphy J. Foster, Jr.|Mike Foster]]
  |votes      = 385,267
  |percentage = 26.10
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Cleo Fields]]
  |votes      = 280,921
  |percentage = 19.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Mary Landrieu
  |votes      = 271,938
  |percentage = 18.43
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Buddy Roemer]]
  |votes      = 263,330
  |percentage = 17.84
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Phil Preis]]
  |votes      = 133,271
  |percentage = 9.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Melinda Schwegmann]]
  |votes      = 71,288
  |percentage = 4.83
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Robert Adley (Louisiana politician)|Robert Adley]]
  |votes      = 27,534
  |percentage = 1.87
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Independent politician
  |candidate  = Arthur D. "Jim" Nichols
  |votes      = 16,616
  |percentage = 1.13
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Gene H. Alexander
  |votes      = 5,688
  |percentage = 0.39
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Independent politician
  |candidate  = Kenneth Woods
  |votes      = 4,964
  |percentage = 0.34
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Independent politician
  |candidate  = Darryl Paul Ward
  |votes      = 4,210
  |percentage = 0.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Belinda Alexandrenko
  |votes      = 3,161
  |percentage = 0.21
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Independent politician
  |candidate  = Lonnie Creech
  |votes      = 2,338
  |percentage = 0.16
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Independent politician
  |candidate  = Ronnie Glynn Johnson
  |votes      = 1,884
  |percentage = 0.13
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Independent politician
  |candidate  = Anne Thompson
  |votes      = 1,416
  |percentage = 0.1
}}
{{Election box total no change|
  |votes      = 1,473,826
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

===1996 Senate election===
{{see also|1996 United States Senate election in Louisiana}}
[[File:1996 United States Senate runoff election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg|thumb|Runoff results by parish in 1996]]
{{Election box begin|title=Louisiana United States Senate jungle primary election, September 21, 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=26777|title=Our Campaigns – LA US Senate – Open Primary Race – Sep 21, 1996|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>}}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = '''[[Woody Jenkins]]'''
   |votes = '''322,244'''
   |percentage = '''26.23'''
   |change =  }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Democratic Party (United States)
   |candidate = '''Mary Landrieu'''
   |votes = '''264,268'''
   |percentage = '''21.51'''
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Democratic Party (United States)
   |candidate = [[Richard Ieyoub]]
   |votes = 250,682
   |percentage = 20.41
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = [[David Duke]]
   |votes = 141,489
   |percentage = 11.52
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = [[Jimmy Hayes]]
   |votes = 71,699
   |percentage = 5.84
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = Bill Linder
   |votes = 58,243
   |percentage = 4.74
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = [[Chuck McMains]]
   |votes = 45,164
   |percentage = 3.68
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = [[Peggy Wilson (Louisiana politician)|Peggy Wilson]]
   |votes = 31,877
   |percentage = 2.6
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Democratic Party (United States)
   |candidate = Troyce Guice
   |votes = 15,277
   |percentage = 1.24
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Independent (politician)
   |candidate = Nicholas J. Accardo
   |votes = 10,035
   |percentage = 0.82
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Independent (politician)
   |candidate = Arthur D. "Jim" Nichols
   |votes = 7,894
   |percentage = 0.64
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Democratic Party (United States)
   |candidate = Sadie Roberts-Joseph
   |votes = 4,660
   |percentage = 0.38
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Independent (politician)
   |candidate = [[James Kirk diploma mills|Tom Kirk]]
   |votes = 1,987
   |percentage = 0.16
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Independent (politician)
   |candidate = Darryl Paul Ward
   |votes = 1,770
   |percentage = 0.14
   |change =
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Independent (politician)
   |candidate = Sam Houston Melton, Jr.
   |votes = 1,270
   |percentage = 0.1
   |change =
 }}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes = 1,228,559
  |percentage =
  |change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=Louisiana United States Senate election runoff, November 5, 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996/96Stat.htm#18|title=96 PRESIDENTIAL and CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION STATISTICS|access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>}}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Democratic Party (United States)
   |candidate = '''Mary Landrieu'''
   |votes = '''852,945'''
   |percentage = '''50.17'''
   |change = -3.78
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate = [[Woody Jenkins]]
   |votes = 847,157
   |percentage = 49.83
   |change = +6.35
 }}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes = 5788
  |percentage = 0.34
  |change = -10.13
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes = 1,700,102
  |percentage =
  |change =
}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| colspan=5 |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] '''hold'''
|-
{{Election box end}}

===2002 Senate election===
{{see also|2002 United States Senate election in Louisiana}}
[[File:2002 United States Senate runoff election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg|thumb|Runoff results by parish in 2002]]
{{Election box begin | title=Louisiana United States Senate jungle primary election, November 5, 2002}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = '''Mary Landrieu''' '''(Incumbent)'''
  |votes      = '''573,347'''
  |percentage = '''46.00'''
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = '''[[Suzanne Haik Terrell]]'''
  |votes      = '''339,506'''
  |percentage = '''27.24'''
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[John Cooksey]]
  |votes      = 171,752
  |percentage = 13.78
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]]
  |votes      = 119,776
  |percentage = 9.61
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Raymond Brown
  |votes      = 23,553
  |percentage = 1.89
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Independent (politician)
  |candidate  = Patrick E. "Live Wire" Landry
  |votes      = 10,442
  |percentage = 0.84
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Independent (politician)
  |candidate  = James Lemann
  |votes      = 3,866
  |percentage = 0.31
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Libertarian Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Gary D. Robbins
  |votes      = 2,423
  |percentage = 0.19
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Ernest Edward Skillman, Jr.
  |votes      = 1,668
  |percentage = 0.13
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 1,246,333
  |percentage =
  |change     =
}}
{{Election box end}}
[[Image:2008 United States Senate election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg|thumb|General election results by parish in 2008]]
{{Election box begin | title=Louisiana United States Senate election runoff, December 7, 2002}}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
   |candidate  = Mary Landrieu '''(Incumbent)'''
   |votes      = 638,654
   |percentage = 51.70
   |change     = +1.53
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party      = Republican Party (United States)
   |candidate  = [[Suzanne Haik Terrell]]
   |votes      = 596,642
   |percentage = 48.30
   |change     = -1.53
 }}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes      = 42,012
  |percentage = 3.4
  |change     = +3.06
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 1,235,296
  |percentage =
  |change     =
}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| colspan=5 |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] '''hold'''
|-
{{Election box end}}

===2008 Senate election===
{{see also|2008 United States Senate election in Louisiana}}

{{Election box begin|title=Louisiana United States Senate general election, November 5, 2008}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
  |party = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate = Mary Landrieu (Incumbent)
  |votes = 988,298
  |percentage = 52.11
  |change = +0.41
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate = [[John Neely Kennedy]]
  |votes = 867,177
  |percentage = 45.72
  |change = -2.58
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party = Libertarian Party (United States)
  |candidate = Richard Fontanesi
  |votes = 18,590
  |percentage = 0.98
  |change = ''n/a''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party = Independent (politician)
  |candidate = Jay Patel
  |votes = 13,729
  |percentage = 0.72
  |change = ''n/a''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party = Independent (politician)
  |candidate = Robert Stewart
  |votes = 8,780
  |percentage = 0.46
  |change = ''n/a''
}}
{{Election box majority
  |votes = 121,121
  |percentage = 6.39
  |change = +2.99
}}
{{Election box turnout
  |votes = 1,896,574
  |percentage =
  |change =
}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| colspan=5 |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] '''hold'''
|-
{{Election box end}}

===2014 Senate election===
{{main|2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana}}
[[Bill Cassidy]] ran for the [[United States Senate|Senate]] in [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2014|2014]] against three term incumbent Mary Landrieu. Cassidy was endorsed by Republican [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[David Vitter]].<ref name="Senate 2014">{{cite news|last=Deslatte|first=Melinda|title=Bill Cassidy's ability to oust Mary Landrieu questioned|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/viewart/20130824/ELECTION/130824005/Bill-Cassidy-s-ability-oust-Mary-Landrieu-questioned-|access-date=September 20, 2013|newspaper=Shreveport Times|date=August 24, 2013}}</ref> Cassidy defeated Landrieu in the run-off election held on December 6, 2014, winning 56% of the vote while Landrieu received 44% of the vote. Cassidy thus became the first Republican to occupy the seat since [[William P. Kellogg]] left it in 1883.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/12/07/mary-landrieus-seat-will-be-held-by-a-republican-for-the-first-time-in-132-years Mary Landrieu's seat will be held by a Republican for the first time in 132 years], washingtonpost.com; accessed January 5, 2015. Kellogg, on leaving the Senate, served on term (2 years) in the House of Representatives.</ref>

[[File:2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg|thumb|Jungle primary results by parish in 2014]]:
{{Election box begin no change | title=United States Senate election jungle primary in Louisiana, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11042014/11042014_Congressional.html |title=Official Election Results Results for Election Date: 11/4/2014| publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State |access-date=November 25, 2014}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Mary Landrieu (Incumbent)
  |votes      = 619,402
  |percentage = 42.08
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Bill Cassidy]]
  |votes      = 603,048
  |percentage = 40.97
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Rob Maness
  |votes      = 202,556
  |percentage = 13.76
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Thomas Clements
  |votes      = 14,173
  |percentage = 0.96
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Libertarian Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Brannon McMorris
  |votes      = 13,034
  |percentage = 0.89
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Wayne Ables
  |votes      = 11,323
  |percentage = 0.77
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = William Waymire
  |votes      = 4,673
  |percentage = 0.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Vallian Senegal
  |votes      = 3,835
  |percentage = 0.26
}}
{{Election box total no change|
  |votes      = 1,473,826
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
[[File:2014 United States Senate runoff election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg|thumb|Runoff results by parish in 2014]]:
{{Election box begin no change | title=United States Senate election runoff in Louisiana, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/12062014/12062014_Congressional.html |title=Official Election Results Results for Election Date: 12/6/2014| publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State |access-date=February 21, 2015}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Republican Party (United States)
  |candidate  = [[Bill Cassidy]]
  |votes      = 712,379
  |percentage = 55.93%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
  |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |candidate  = Mary Landrieu (Incumbent)
  |votes      = 561,210
  |percentage = 44.07%
}}
{{Election box total no change|
  |votes      = 1,273,589
  |percentage = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box gain with party link no change|
  |winner     = Republican Party (United States)
  |loser      = Democratic Party (United States)
  |swing      =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==Post-Senate career==
Landrieu is a Senior Policy Advisor for [[Van Ness Feldman]], a DC Law Firm.<ref name="Roll Call">{{cite web|url=http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/landrieu-closes-the-door-on-another-race|title=Mary Landrieu Closes the Door on Another Run|work=rollcall.com|date=September 16, 2016|access-date=November 6, 2016}}</ref> She became a strategic adviser to the [[Walton Family Foundation]] in April 2015.<ref name="NOLA.com - Walton">{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/04/former_sen_mary_landrieu_is_no.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160107063907/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/04/former_sen_mary_landrieu_is_no.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 7, 2016|title=Former Sen. Mary Landrieu is now a 'strategic adviser' to Walton Family Foundation|work=NOLA.com|access-date=November 6, 2016}}</ref> Landrieu is also a member of the pro-Israel group [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/17/pro-israel-aipac-creates-group-to-lobby-against-the-iran-deal/|title = Pro-Israel Aipac Creates Group to Lobby Against the Iran Deal|newspaper = The New York Times|date = July 17, 2015|last1 = Davis|first1 = Julie Hirschfeld}}</ref>

In December 2018, Landrieu and a bipartisan group of former U.S. senators co-authored an opinion piece in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' urging the Senate to protect the [[Mueller special counsel investigation|Special Counsel Investigation]] led by special counsel [[Robert Mueller]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-former-senators-the-senate-has-long-stood-in-defense-of-democracy--and-must-again/2018/12/10/3adfbdea-fca1-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html|title=We are former senators. The Senate has long stood in defense of democracy – and must again.|last=Landrieu |display-authors=etal |first=Mary|date=December 10, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref>

Landrieu has received hundreds of thousands of dollars to advocate on behalf of the natural gas industry and has appeared in commercials promoting the benefits of fossil gas.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Samuelson |first=Arielle |title=Here's how much Democrats get paid to shill for fossil fuels |url=https://heated.world/p/heres-how-much-democrats-get-paid |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=heated.world |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Women in the United States Senate]]
* [[Conservative Democrat]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* [http://ballotpedia.org/Mary_Landrieu Biography] at [[Ballotpedia]]
* [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/300063 Congressional profile] at [[GovTrack]]
* [http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/300063 Congressional profile] at [[Participatory Politics Foundation|OpenCongress]]
* [http://www.rollcall.com/members/213.html Congressional profile] at ''[[Roll Call]]''
* [http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mary-landrieu Fact-checking] at [[PolitiFact.com]]
* [http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00005395 Financial information (federal office)] at [[Center for Responsive Politics|OpenSecrets.org]]
* [https://apps.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-assets/member/mary-landrieu Financial investments (personal)] at ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* [http://www.legistorm.com/member/60/Sen_Mary_Loretta_Landrieu.html Staff salaries, trips and personal finance] at LegiStorm.com
* [http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Mary_Landrieu.htm Issue positions and quotes] at [[On the Issues]]
* [http://www.c-spanvideo.org/person/22357 Appearances] on [[C-SPAN]] programs
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1981189 Appearances] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]
* [http://topics.bloomberg.com/mary-landrieu Collected news and commentary] at ''[[Bloomberg News]]''
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/mary_landrieu/index.html Collected news and commentary] at ''[[The New York Times]]''
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gIQAi61x9O_topic.html Collected news and commentary] at ''[[The Washington Post]]''
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* Mary Landrieu [https://web.archive.org/web/20070712175811/http://landrieu.senate.gov/hrt/index.cfm official Senate Website (archived)]
* {{C-SPAN|22357}}

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