Senator says Democratic control doesn't mean job gets any easier Mike Hasten • mhasten@gannett.com • November 10, 2008 BATON ROUGE - Just because her political party will be in control of the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, it doesn't necessarily make U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's job easier. "It hasn't been this way for a while," said Landrieu, still basking in her Nov. 4 re-election by the largest margin of victory in her three Senate campaigns. "More recently, it's been all Republican. Regardless of whether it's a Republican majority or Democratic majority, it's still a challenge for those of us in the center," she said. Landrieu and U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, co-chairwomen of the Common Ground Coalition, which has joined with the Bipartisan Policy Center, are part of another group of...
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