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Tag: Patrick Leahy
Final Reading: Poetry, cat care and constituent work on lawmakers’ agendas for Town Meeting break
The legislative session’s midway Town Meeting break marks a brief respite before legislators return to a flurry of activity leading up to Crossover Day.
Leahy named a ‘distinguished fellow’ at UVM
The position is unpaid, and Leahy started this week, a UVM spokesperson said.
Peter Welch’s Senate committee assignments include Agriculture, Judiciary; Becca Balint lands House Oversight
Vermont’s first-term senator will serve on multiple high-profile committees, while its first-term representative has secured her “dream” seat.
Don Keelan: Are almost five decades in Washington too long?
By having our two senators in such powerful positions, tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions, have made their way to the Vermont treasury.
Lewis Mudge: My Sen. Leahy moment in Burundi
The Leahy Laws are designed to prevent human rights abusers from receiving U.S. assistance, to keep the U.S. government from becoming complicit in foreign human rights abuses, and to serve as a tool for producing change.
Final Reading: In-person legislating, with an asterisk
A new resolution allows for senators to debate, deliberate and vote remotely on a limited, emergency basis through Town Meeting Day.
Vermont Conversation: Sen. Patrick Leahy passes the gavel after a half-century
Leahy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974 at the age of 34. He is now 82.
VTDigger’s Final Reading newsletter returns for 2023 legislative session
Every day the Legislature is working in Montpelier, we deliver the day’s top political news to your inbox.
Peter Welch sworn into US Senate; Becca Balint in limbo as House Republicans spar over speakership
Welch took the oath of office Tuesday after Patrick Leahy concluded his historic 48-year career in the Senate.
What to expect in a historic week in Vermont politics
Federal and state lawmakers will take the oath of office later this week, and Gov. Phil Scott is scheduled to deliver his fourth inaugural address. But the real legislative work won’t start for a few more days.
Once a reformist ‘Watergate baby,’ Patrick Leahy leaves office a Washington institution
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., first entered Congress decrying Washington’s parliamentary rules and systems of seniority. Now, nearly five decades later, he exits one of the system’s greatest beneficiaries.
In Leahy’s final federal spending package, Vermont reaps hundreds of millions in earmarks
Retiring U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Thursday cast his final vote as a U.S. senator, approving a $1.7 trillion budget to fund the federal government through September.
In an emotional floor speech, Sen. Patrick Leahy bids colleagues farewell as his historic career comes to a close
Exiting as the longest currently serving member of the U.S. Senate, Vermont’s retiring senior senator implored his colleagues to put aside partisanship for the sake of the country.