#MARY LANDR FULL#

The RESTORE Act directs 80 percent of the Clean Water Act penalties paid by BP directly to the Gulf Coast. In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Senator Landrieu passed the RESTORE the Gulf Coast Act, a bipartisan, regional approach to address the immense economic and environmental damage to America's working coast. She is committed to reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ensure the nation’s disaster response arm is speedy and effective the next time a disaster strikes the United States, be it natural or manmade. In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the failures of the federal levee system,she secured more than $120 billions in recovery dollars and has worked extensively to jumpstart recovery projects. Senator Landrieu has been the leading voice in Washington for the Gulf Coast recovery effort. It also shares the revenues produced offshore-an estimated $6 billion annually-with Louisiana to fund the state's 50-year, $50 billion coastal master plan to protect Louisiana’s coastal communities from storm surges and coastal erosion. The bill expanded oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico by more than 8 million acres. In 2006, Senator Landrieu spearheaded the landmark Domenici-Landrieu Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA). The Senate Energy Committee sets policy for the nation’s oil and gas industry, the top job creator and economic engine for Louisiana. She became the first woman to lead the committee and the first Louisiana Senator to hold the gavel since J. In 2014, Senator Landrieu was appointed chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

The nonpartisan has ranked Senator Landrieu as the tenth most effective legislator in the Senate. Senator Landrieu is currently the Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security and a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Small Business and Entrepreneurship committees.

#MARY LANDR FULL#

After serving eight years as a state representative and two terms as State Treasurer, in 1996 she became the first woman from Louisiana elected to a full term in the U.S. Landrieu has been fighting and winning for Louisiana since she was first elected to the Louisiana state legislature at the age of 23.

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