Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahyis an American politician and the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He has been in office since 1975. A member of the Democratic Party, Leahy served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate from December 17, 2012, to January 6, 2015. As President pro tempore, he was third in the presidential line of succession. He is the most senior senator and took office at a younger age than any other current senator. Leahy received...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1940
CountryUnited States of America
This is a commonsense solution that gives the Senate more time to craft a consensus bill that will promote our security while preserving our freedom.
This was the memo that basically justified the United States be involved in torture,
There's no way we can ask for a treaty that has one standard for the United States and another for the rest of the world.
a flexible plan that includes pulling our troops back from the densely populated areas where they are suffering the worst casualties and to bring them home.
The bottom line is with that enormous power comes enormous responsibility and frankly I have not seen anything in the Rich pardon suggesting to me the responsibility was fully carried out,
Despite my misgivings, I have acquiesced in some of the administration's proposals because it is important to preserve national unity in this time of crisis and to move the legislative process forward,
I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?
Let's let the Senate run this and not the gun lobbies run this Senate chamber.
Many would say that amount is negligible. Where does the rest of it go?
There's a real potential of criminal conduct here, there will certainly be grand juries looking at this,
Data banks offer powerful tools for security screening, but they also raise privacy dangers.
This is the way legislation used to be done when I first came here. There were many good things in this conference report, but not enough. Now we have six months to get it right.
They have squandered the surpluses ... the public's trust in corporate accountability and in the markets, and the opportunities to use the surpluses to protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security and homeland defense,
I regret that instead of accepting our many previous invitations to work with the Senate and increase the level of consultation and cooperation to help fill judicial vacancies, the White House repeatedly has chosen to continue down its path of trying to politicize the process,