Senator mary landrieu address stamps

  • “This initiative is part of an ongoing effort to raise awareness about kids who are in the foster care system and in need of permanent, loving.
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  • Cassidy and Maness frame the senator as a rubber stamp for Obama, who is unpopular in Louisiana, while Landrieu tries to distance herself.

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    Mary Landrieu Is Paying — and Getting Paid Big — for Her Stance on Global Warming

    Environmentalists need Mary Landrieu, but they don't love her — and they're proving it with their checkbooks.

    Louisiana's Democratic senator and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy are locked in a Bayou battle that will go a long way in determining whether Democrats can hold their imperiled Senate majority, a force that has proved an implacable bulwark against a steady stream of House Republican attacks on environmental regulations.

    But that hasn't convinced the environmental lobby's heavy hitters to cut checks for Landrieu. In the past year, only one environmental organization has donated to her campaign. The Baton Rouge-based Center for Coastal Conservation gave Landrieu a $2,500 nod, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Defense Fund have handed over a combined contribution of exactly nothing. All three groups declined to c

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    Grassley, Landrieu Introduce the Foster Youth Stamp Act

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, co-chairs of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, have introduced the Foster Youth Stamp Act of 2013.  This bipartisan legislation will provide for the issuance and sale of a semi-postal stamp by the United States Postal Service to support effective programs targeted at improving permanency outcomes for youth in foster care.


    To improve permanency, this legislation creates additional funding to support the Adoption Opportunities Program and the State Court Improvement Program (CIP).  The Adoption Opportunities Program targets programs improving permanency outcomes for youth in foster care through adoption, guardianship, or kinship care.  The CIP targets improving the quality of legal representation for youth, reducing caseloads, updating systems to be more efficient, and overall steps to improve the court’s role in achieving safe, stable and permanen

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