Posted on 11/28/2005 4:54:06 PM PST by Ellesu
NEW ORLEANS (AP) U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Monday she is prepared to prevent the U.S. Senate from taking Christmas and New Year's break until Washington has approved money to pay for flood protection improvements along Louisiana's coast.
"We may be getting to a point where we've just got to raise the level of attention" on Louisiana's critical flood control needs, Landrieu said Monday while touring damaged neighborhoods here with Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam, the Dutch ambassador to the United States. "We've got to get people down here to walk through these neighborhoods, to see these houses, to see the stretch of devastation along the whole Gulf Coast."
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Twitch, twitch...
Like a commentator said a few months ago, when she had her outburst about President Bush, "She looks awfully cute when she's angry."
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