When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

Though Breaux was considered a popular politician in Louisiana he was unable to dictate his successor in the Senate. Since leaving office Breaux has spearheaded his own national campaign “Ceasefire on Health Care: Finding Common Ground for the Uninsured. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987.

John Berlinger Breaux (pron. : /ˈbroʊ/; born March 1 1944) is a former United States senator from Louisiana who served from 1987 until 2005.