We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.

Mary Loretta Landrieu (pron. S. ’ Everybody wants free health care.

She chairs the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Senate apologized for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation during the early 20th century. She became a spokeswoman for federal emergency relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 which devastated her state.