Landrieu was a senator from Louisiana and was a Democrat. She served from 1997 to 2014.
![Photo of Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA, 1997-2014]](/static/legislator-photos/300063-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2014 Report Card for Landrieu.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Landrieu is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2014 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Landrieu sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2009 to Dec 12, 2014. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Landrieu was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 3472 (112th): Uninterrupted Scholars Act (USA)
- S. 3478 (112th): Uninterrupted Scholars Act
- S. 1082 (112th): Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
- S. 990 (112th): PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011
- S. 1078 (112th): Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
- S. 3839 (111th): A bill to provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other ...
- S. 2874 (111th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Louisiana Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the “Roy Rondeno, Sr. Post ...
Does 17 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Landrieu sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Commerce (38%) Education (12%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (12%) Families (11%) Taxation (9%) Health (8%) Energy (5%)
Recent Bills
Some of Landrieu’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 2907 (113th): 21st Century Energy Workforce Development Jobs Initiative Act of 2014
- S.Res. 527 (113th): A resolution congratulating the members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. for ...
- S. 2654 (113th): Veterans’ Credit Protection Act
- S. 2641 (113th): A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide that ...
- S. 2534 (113th): Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
- S. 2554 (113th): Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act
- S. 2475 (113th): Children in Families First Act of 2014
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1997 to Dec 2014, Landrieu missed 208 of 5,733 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2014. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
