John Breaux, D-Louisiana, held the key to passing an earlier Senate version of Bush's budget.
Vitter takes the seat occupied by Democrat John Breaux, who did not seek re-election.
John Breaux, D-Louisiana, to draft a compromise tax-cut plan that could get votes from both sides of the aisle.
Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, a Democrat, has mooted one version of this.
George Bush named two retired senators, Connie Mack and John Breaux, to lead a bipartisan advisory panel on tax reform .
But several in Mr Bush's tax panel, particularly its vice-chairman, John Breaux, a former Democratic senator from Louisiana, worried that this seemed unfair.
"I don't think Gore can walk away, " said Louisiana Senator John Breaux, widely considered the most agnostic about new legal challenges to the election.
John Breaux, D-Lousiana, announced his opposition to the measure last week.
John Breaux, who worked tirelessly to make tax relief a reality.
Some version has since been endorsed by everyone from President Clinton's 1999 Medicare commission, chaired by Democrat John Breaux, to Bob Dole and Tom Daschle in 2009.
John Breaux (D-Louisiana) and Rep. Bill Thomas (R-California) said their plan offers "no significant" changes from earlier versions except that it addresses "a number of adjustments" other commission members wanted.
The commission's remedy, which, thanks to the determination of its co-chairman, John Breaux, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, may yet find its way to the Senate, is to introduce competition.
Neither shop is known as a hatchery for conservative ideology. (Mr. Aaron has since recanted.) President Clinton's 17-member Medicare commission, chaired by Louisiana Democrat John Breaux, endorsed the reform in 1999.
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She also appeared frequently with Senator John Breaux, an immensely popular Louisiana Democrat, made friends with Mr Fields and other black leaders, and touted endorsements from local politicians, some of them Republicans.
John Breaux, D-Louisiana, said he had had enough.
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John Breaux, D-Louisiana, a key player who has his own compromise plan, said he had concerns about the payroll tax holiday because there is no way to guarantee employers would pass the 6.2 percent tax cut onto employees.
His leadership team stretches from moderates like John Breaux to liberals like Barbara Boxer, and he has resolutely refused to take revenge on renegades like Zell Miller, who has voted with the Republicans more frequently than with the Democrats.
The key Medicare negotiators, including Democratic Senators John Breaux of Louisiana and Max Baucus of Montana, met at the White House for a photo opportunity with Bush as the president begins a major effort to get the bill through before Congress adjourns.
"I am not precluding the hope and belief that when the president fully understands what this means and what my amendment would mean, that we will hopefully have a change in attitude and that my goal is the same as John Breaux's, " Jeffords said.
In 2007, Trent Lott, a Republican leader in the Senate less than a year into his fourth term, abruptly resigned and formed a lobbying firm with former Senator John Breaux, just a few weeks before a new law took effect requiring a two-year waiting period between serving and lobbying.
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