Senator Mary Landrieu a key vote in major labor bill

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Landrieu a key vote in major labor bill
by Bruce Alpert, Washington bureau, The Times-Picayune
Sunday March 08, 2009, 6:23 PM

WASHINGTON -- Armed with competing studies and tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign expenditures, organized labor and business groups are waging an epic battle over legislation that would change labor organizing efforts for the first time in a half-century.

At the cross hairs are a group of three undecided Southern Democratic senators: Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas -- and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. Landrieu is a past co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act.

Landrieu benefited from union support in all three of her successful runs for the Senate, but in her race last year she also had the backing of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

She's not giving any signals on her preference. ...

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