Leahy pushes email privacy bill out of Judiciary committee
Sen. Patrick Leahy successfully steered a favorable unanimous vote on electronic privacy legislation from the Senate Judiciary committee on Thursday, clearing another hurdle to updating a major...
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Stop the F-35 Coalition to pressure Leahy to hold public hearing
Juliet Buck, a leading member of the Stop the F-35 Coalition. Photo by Anne Galloway BURLINGTON — A group protesting the U.S. Air Force’s proposal to base F-35 fighter jets in South Burlington is...
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Leahy three heartbeats away from the presidency
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution appointing Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., as president pro tempore Monday evening. Leahy was elected to the post shortly after the...
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Leahy chairs first congressional hearing on gun control
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., at the inauguration of Gov. Peter Shumlin on Jan. 10. Photo by Roger Crowley Congress’ first official stirrings on federal gun control since the December Newtown...
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Welch renews push to tax online retailers
Rep. Peter Welch gives testimony in Senate Finance on Thursday. Photo by Nat Rudarakanchana Congressman Peter Welch, D-Vt., says he will re-introduce bipartisan legislation that would impose a sales...
View ArticleLeahy presses intelligence officials on need for domestic surveillance program
Sen. Patrick Leahy wasn’t looking for nuance at Wednesday’s hearing about the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs. The Judiciary Committee hearing was prompted by the slew of leaks the...
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Congress goes on vacation, leaving behind a headache for anti-hunger advocates
Photo courtesy of the Vermont Food BankCongress departed Friday for its August recess after making the worst- case scenario for food stamps recipients twice as bad. Vermont officials, meanwhile, are...
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Strange bedfellows: Leahy finds ways to work with Tea Party darlings
From left: Rep. Peter Welch, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Patrick Leahy and Zoran Jolevski, the Macedonian ambassador, with his wife. There’s little love lost between the Obama administration and...
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Welch, Sanders cautiously optimistic about Russian proposal to avert Syria...
Russia’s offer to take control of Syria’s chemical weapons might be a way out of the crisis if it proves to be “real,” Rep. Peter Welch told callers during a telephone town hall meeting Monday night....
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Leahy-led hearing addresses feds’ policies on state-legalized marijuana
With most of Congress consumed in the Syria maelstrom, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., took a brief break Tuesday to chair a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on conflicts between federal and state...
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Leahy, Sanders rail against Republicans on federal shutdown
Vermont’s congressional delegation — Rep. Peter Welch (left), Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Patrick Leahy (right) — meet with then-Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Photo courtesy of Sen. Leahy’s Office...
View ArticleWelch drums up support for raising debt ceiling
Rep. Peter Welch gathered up 186 signatures from his fellow Democrats in the House in a public showing of support for President Barack Obama, ahead of Congress’ debate over the debt ceiling. Welch held...
View ArticleLeahy, Sanders vote yes on budget bill; House battle looms
Vermont Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted to avoid a government shutdown Friday. The Senate voted 54-44 for a continuing resolution to keep the federal government in business...
View ArticleSanders ordered to hit the deck during Capitol Hill shooting
Vermont’s congressional delegation is unharmed after a shooting on Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon. Police ordered Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was outside at the time, to take cover behind a car,...
View ArticleWelch presses Boehner to hold vote on budget, end shutdown
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., has a message for Republican House Speaker John Boehner: Stop appeasing Tea Party lawmakers and turn the government’s lights back on. Boehner has said he won’t let the House...
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The Playboy Interview: Sanders waxes on oligarchy, presidential plans
Sen. Bernie Sanders at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a vocal defender of the middle class, is promulgating his message from the pulpit of Playboy magazine. In...
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Leahy says shutdown fight encouraged him to stay in office
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., addresses reporters in his Burlington office on Thursday morning. Photo by Alicia Freese/VTDigger BURLINGTON — After casting his vote to end the government shutdown Wednesday...
View ArticleSanders appointed to budget conference committee
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has clinched a seat on the budget conference committee, which will put him in the thick of upcoming negotiations between Democrats and Republicans. The 30-member...
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Welch’s political war chest adds another $213,000
Rep. Peter Welch. VTD/Taylor Dobbs Fundraising and spending reports are in for Vermont’s two senators and its single representative. It was a lucrative quarter for Rep. Peter Welch, who scooped up...
View ArticleWelch pays tribute to Vietnam veterans at VA, slams NSA
Editor’s note: This article is by Jon Wolper of the Valley News, in which it was first published Nov. 4, 2013. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — U.S. Rep. Peter Welch said on Sunday that he was “outraged” by last...
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