And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

) against Tauzin and accused him of using unethical tactics to push a bill that "the pharmaceutical lobbyists wrote". Tauzin defeated Democratic State Senator Tony Guarisco and another Democrat who also later turned Republican: Jim Donelon.

He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005 representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. He was President and CEO of PhRMA a pharmaceutical company lobby group.