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Senator Breaux joined Patton Boggs as senior counsel upon his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 2005. He provides strategic advice to the firm�s attorneys and clients on a wide range of public policy matters, with special concentration in the areas of health care and energy law. With a long and distinguished public service career, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1972, representing the 7th District of Louisiana for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 1986. Senator Breaux was a founder of the Centrist Coalition of Senate Democrats and Republicans and served as Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. In 2005 president George W. Bush appointed Senator Breaux as the Co-Chair of the President�s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, and was chosen in 2006 as a member of the Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State. Senator Breaux also serves on the boards of CSX Corporation and IMG Corporation | 