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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) (L) questions U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (2nd L) while Chairman U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (2nd R) and U.S.Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) talk during a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing...

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Chairman of the Committee on Small Business Mary Landrieu (R), D-LA, listens as ranking member Senator Olympia Snowe (L), R-ME, questions US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (C) as he testifies during a full committee hearing on 'The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010' on Capitol Hill in...

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, talks to Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, ranking Republican on the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, right, and Committee Chair Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , center, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at the conclusion...

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12: Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate (R) greets Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (L) prior to testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee Homeland Security Subcommittee on Capitol Hill October 12, 2011 in Washington DC. The...

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Senate Homeland Security subcommittee Chair Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , left, talks with the subcommittee's ranking Republican Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind. , on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, during the subcommittee's hearing on disasters and recovery.

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Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , center, is assisted by staff on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, after the Senate blocked a House bill that tied funding for natural disasters to cuts in other government programs. Landrieu, whose state is often ravaged by hurricanes, has...

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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) holds a list of jobs she said has been idled, while talking with reporters after the weekly Democratic caucus policy meeting at the U.S. Capitol September 20, 2011 in Washington, DC. Landrieu said that Senate Republicans are...

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, right, joke around when students showed them a robot demonstration during their tour of Cyber Innovation Center on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 in Shreveport, La. MANDATORY CREDIT.

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From left, Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, R-N.D. , Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md. , Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. , Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , and others, participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,...

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Chairman of the Committee on Small Business Mary Landrieu, D-LA, questions Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as he testifies during a full committee hearing on 'The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010' on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 18, 2011.

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WASHINGTON - APRIL 13: U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (C) speaks as (L-R) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) listen during a news conference about Planned Parenthood April 13, 2011...

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From left to right, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. , Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. , Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. , meet with reporters following the vote on a short term funding bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26 2011.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. , is joined by fellow Democrats Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. , and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. , following the short term funding bill vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26 2011.

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In this Sept. 20, 2011, photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , urges funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The GOP-controlled House is on track Wednesday, Sept. 21, to pass $3.7 billion in disaster relief as part of a...

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. listens at right as Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. speaks about funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA), Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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WASHINGTON - JUNE 08: Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Craig Fugate (R) and Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Rand Beers return to their seats after they greeted subcommittee...

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With his city devastated by floodwaters from Hurricane Irene, Paterson, (N.J.) Mayor Jeffery Jones, center, joins senators to make an appeal to pass emergency funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. From left to right...

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FILE In this June 22, 2011 file photo, former Mayor Ray Nagin arrives to talk about his new book, 'Katrina's Secrets,' at a news conference in New Orleans. Nagin writes in a new memoir that he was the only one to understand how to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and that he endured...