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Mary Landrieu

Will Not Rest - April 15, 2014

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LANDRIEU: I’m Mary Landrieu and I approve this message.

ANNOUNCER: For years, she's forced Washington to respect Louisiana.

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: The administration's policies are simply wrong when it comes to oil and gas production in this nation.

ANNOUNCER: Like stopping offshore drilling

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: Nothing about this moratorium make sense—nothing.

ANNOUNCER: So she forced it to end.

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: Just Louisiana. Its 300 thousand people—they go to work every day in this industry. You can just beat up on them.

ANNOUNCER: When we were cheated out of oil royalties.

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: And I have to sit here and listen to the federal government say, we can’t share a penny with you? I will not rest until this unjustice is fixed.

ANNOUNCER: And she won. Now as the new chairman of the Energy Committee?

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: Do you think there are budget fairy godmothers our there that just wave a magic wand?

ANNOUNCER: She holds the most powerful position in the Senate for Louisiana.

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: We produce the oil and gas. That's the message we told to the president.

CLIP OF LANDRIEU: My eyes are on the people I represent and the taxpayers and this country.