... there is a failure to act on serious challenges that millions of ordinary Americans face in their daily lives," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said during the rare weekend session.United in opposition, Republicans cast the bill as a costly government ...

... sound so inclined. The role of racial politics in the day's proceedings became clear within minutes after Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee chairman, rapped the opening gavel. "She's been a judge for all Americans. She'll be a justice ...

... Sotomayor. Regarding the Bush administration's conduct in the war on terror, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that "I've always preferred my idea of a commission of inquiry to look at all these issues ...

... Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said "we'll see" whether it would be appropriate. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman, warned the GOP against holding up the final vote on Sotomayor's confirmation ...

... judicial monastery, somebody who has had some real-life experience, not just as a judge," said Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings when Obama makes his nomination. Noting that ...

... emphasized only one in a later briefing: a broad background in life outside campus classrooms and judges' chambers. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who will preside over confirmation hearings as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he hoped Obama ...

... someone else has mostly solved it. Now the Democratic chairman of the activist Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, wants a list of all those convicted when the lead theory was used. That would indicate that perhaps he ...

... the bill becomes law, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt, said on the Senate floor. A previously passed ... disclosure disputes. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has been working with the Justice Department ...

... wedding present for her husband), Dr. Phil McGraw of TV talk show fame (a drawing of his dog) and U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, whose Washington, D.C., office is decorated with Huneck art. "I think, to describe his work to someone who ...

... determination to produce responsible legislation that will protect America and protect our Constitution. (Jay Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers are chairmen, respectively, of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the ...