John Breaux
John Breaux
John Berlinger Breauxwas a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the US House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition. After his Congressional career, he became a lobbyist, co-founding the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group. The firm was later acquired by law and lobbying firm Patton Boggs, now...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.
Must be in a closet somewhere, on a shelf somewhere. I am really disappointed.
You can't have a law that says you have to have all votes in at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and then another law that allows you to have a hand recount that obviously is going to take more than just 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. They're in conflict, so a court I think has to resolve that conflict.
It's clear that their proposal is going to be vetoed and we end up with nothing, ... The American people don't want us to do nothing but they would like us to do something that's reasonable and I suggest about a $500 billion tax cut over 10 years.
I think both sides made a mistake from the very beginning on the issue of how to handle a $1 trillion surplus because both sides in effect said 'my way or no way,' and what we're going to end up with no way.
The most important speech of this election is ... going to be given by the loser when they concede because it will set the tone for the next four years,
He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.
Is it a perfect agreement? Of course not. But does it help people who need the help the most at the bottom end of the economic ladder? I think it does. Does it also help people at the top end who pay the greatest amount of taxes? The answer is also yes.
Airlines were interested in the bottom line. They want to hire the people to do the security who could do it as cheap as possible. And that's why they gave it to the low bidder, ... It was acceptable because we never had problems with that arrangement. After September 11th everything has dramatically changed.
This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.
San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?
There's plenty of lore, but none of it you can publish in a family newspaper.
Amazing, ... It means we've got a long way to go before we can even talk about changing the system.
That's a bird with no left wing and no right wing right now.