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	t r u t h o u t - Senator Patrick Leahy \| Bring Them Home
		Leahy (D-Vt.) is the ranking member of the Appropriations panel that handles the Senate's work in funding the State Department and US foreign operations and aid, and he also is a senior member of the Appropriations panel with jurisdiction over the annual defense budget bill.
		Leahy was one of 23 senators who voted against the resolution that authorized the invasion of Iraq.
		Leahy: Three years ago when the Congress and the country debated the resolution to give President Bush the authority to launch a preemptive war against Iraq, reference was often made to the lessons of Vietnam.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/102505A.shtml (2797 words)

	Patrick Leahy - dKosopedia
		Leahy was reeelected to the Senate in 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998 and 2004.
		Leahy was one of the authors of the now controversial USA PATRIOT Act, and is a leading proponent of enforcing sunset provisions for the sections of the Act that infringe the most on Americans' civil liberties.
		Leahy voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and was one of the few liberal Democrats to support the ban on partial-birth abortions.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Patrick_Leahy (1179 words)

	Patrick Leahy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont.
		Leahy resides in a farmhouse in Middlesex, Vermont that he recently moved to from Burlington.
		Leahy was one of two Senators targeted in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Leahy (1342 words)

	Online NewsHour: Sen. Patrick Leahy Urges White House to Release Roberts Documents -- August 29, 2005
		Patrick Leahy of Vermont discusses the process of confirming judicial appointments.
		PATRICK LEAHY: Well, with all due respect, judge, I have some difficulty with your answer that somehow this has been so far removed from your discussions or feelings during the years since it was decided while you were in law school.
		PATRICK LEAHY: Well, it was the second meeting we've had, actually the second meeting on this nomination.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/july-dec05/leahy_8-29.html (2175 words)

	Patrick Leahy - Congresspedia
		Patrick Leahy's official website was rated by citizen researchers in February 2007 as part of a survey by the Sunlight Foundation.
		Leahy did vote against a proposed 2006 constitutional amendment which would ban same-sex marriages, noting that it would improperly play politics with the Constitution and was a waste of the Congress' time, which was similar to his opinion on the Terry Schiavo controversy.
		Leahy voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and was one of the few liberal Democrats to support the ban on partial-birth abortions.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Patrick_Leahy (2145 words)

	USATODAY.com - Leahy battle-ready as top Democrat on judiciary committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Leahy has had mixed results in trying to stop several of President Bush's judicial nominees to the lower courts, railing against candidates whom he argues are out of the mainstream.
		Leahy was not part of the bipartisan group of 14 lawmakers who this spring produced a compromise on Bush's nominees, avoiding a Senate showdown.
		Leahy said he had been careless in allowing an NBC reporter to examine the draft, which was not classified.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-07-17-leahy-court_x.htm (1493 words)

	Patrick Leahy: A Profile, by Richard Prasad - Democratic Underground
		Leahy said the bill criminalized too many minor offenses, and federalized crimes that were already covered by state law, making it redundant.
		Leahy was generally concerned that the September 11th eroded the oversight power of the Congress, giving more power to the Executive branch.
		Patrick Leahy is not the most well known member of the Senate by far.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/02/03/20_leahy.html (1050 words)

	P. Leahy: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Leahy is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Hydrology, Sigma Xi, and the Geological Society of Washington.
		Hall and Patrick Leahy, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, which is conducting the initial round of tests for presence of the virus, said their concerns about the virus will ease sometime between October and December if it hasn't shown up.
		Leahy said a variation of influenza in birds, H5N2, was found last year in two of 100 birds sampled in North Dakota.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/leahy_p._2718539.aspx (631 words)

	Metro \| Meet Patrick Leahy
		Leahy believes the current board has diverse backgrounds, interests and skills that represent the varied spectrum of the community quite well.
		Leahy plans to spend some time working with Metro faculty, staff and administration developing a plan to prioritize and re-allocate limited resources for the benefit of the community served.
		Leahy was the 2002 President of the American Institute of Architects, Omaha chapter.
	www.mccneb.edu /bog/bogprofileleahy.asp (397 words)

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		Leahy is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and a senior member on the Senate Appropriations and Agriculture Committees.
		Leahy allegedly had said, "I thought [the operation] was probably the most ridiculous thing I had seen, and also the most irresponsible," and had threatened to expose the operation to CIA Director William Casey.
		Leahy was able to put a provision into an appropriations bill for $2.5 million to compensate victims in Afghanistan and another $10 million to rebuild homes and provide medical assistance in Iraq.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=2038 (1607 words)

	Online NewsHour: Senator Leahy Rebuffs White House Defense of NSA Spy Program -- January 23, 2006
		PATRICK LEAHY: I want to make it very clear that the illegal spying on Americans is not authorized by the Congress or by any law whatsoever.
		PATRICK LEAHY: You know it is so easy, this is almost what we heard of during the Nixon era when they were spying on those who dissented against them.
		PATRICK LEAHY: That was in the Hamdi opinion.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/jan-june06/leahy_1-23.html (2061 words)

	Inside Washington: What You Didn't Know About Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.) - US News and World Report
		Patrick Joseph Leahy was born in Montpelier, Vt., on March 31, 1940.
		Leahy's letter was discovered on Nov. 16, 2001, among a large amount of quarantined mail.
		Leahy is an amateur photographer who has taken photos of presidents, foreign heads of state, as well as rock stars during his Senate career.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/061110/10leahyfacts.htm (621 words)

	Irregular Times Rating and Contact Information for Senator Patrick Leahy of VT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Senator Patrick Leahy voted a firm "NO" against the Tyranny Act, S. Senator Leahy swore a solemn oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
		Senator Leahy took a brave stand by fillibustering an the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and stopping the reauthorization of the act in its tracks.
		Rather, Senator Leahy cravenly accepted the bizarre notion that a man with an anti-constitutional record, and who is unwilling to share his point of view regarding the constitution, is worthy of being elevated to the position of Chief Justice.
	irregularbin.com /senate/senLeahyVT.html (1931 words)

	NPR : National Press Club -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
		Patrick Leahy, the senior U.S. senator from Vermont, was born in Montpelier, Vt., in 1940.
		Leahy ranks eighth in seniority in the Senate.
		Currently, Leahy serves as the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, as well as being a senior member of both the Appropriations and Agriculture committees.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2003/030625.pleahy.html (289 words)

	CNN.com - Sources: Cheney curses senator over Halliburton criticism - Jun 24, 2004
		Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who was on the receiving end of Cheney's ire, confirmed that the vice president used profanity during Tuesday's class photo.
		Leahy was referring to charges leveled by some conservatives during the confirmation battle of Bush judicial nominee William Pryor last August.
		Leahy would not comment on the specifics of the story Thursday, but did confirm that Cheney used profanity.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/24/cheney.leahy (473 words)

	Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason
		It was referred to Leahy's committee and was still awaiting action (along with the two other bills, which originated in the Senate) last Friday, April 12, when the New York Post broadsided Leahy with a scathing article claiming he "single-handedly killed" the House legislation.
		Leahy's spokesman called the report inaccurate, and the senator announced later that day that all three bills would be brought before the committee on Thursday, April 18.
		The explanation for the delay, according to Leahy and his staff, is that the senator wanted to wait for the medal review board of public safety officers to be formed, as originally intended under the legislation.
	www.spinsanity.org /post.html?2002_04_14_archive.html (2519 words)

	Pat Leahy: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Leahy is currently the associate director for Geology of the U.S. Geological Survey.
		Leahy is a fellow in the Geological Society of America and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Hydrology (former president), Sigma Xi, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 50th Anniversary Committee of the American Geological Institute, and the Geological Society of Washington.
		Leahy is a representative on the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/leahy_pat_3077565.aspx (1265 words)

	Office of Senator Patrick Leahy
		Leahy is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and has assisted Revision in securing military contracts.
		Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held a press conference August 27 in his Burlington, Vt. office to discuss the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
		Leahy and the Judiciary Committee have been investigating the politicization of the Department of Justice in the wake of the mass firings of U.S. Attorneys.
	leahy.senate.gov (657 words)

	Patrick Leahy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Patrick Leahy News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		US Senator Patrick Leahy is applauding the resignation - announced today - of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
		Leahy on State Dept. Proposed Rule to Implement the PASS Card Border...
	www.topix.net /us-senate/patrick-leahy (722 words)

	Patrick Leahy
		Leahy is in a key position to block or slow the bill.
		Department of Defense General Counsel William Haynes responds to a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy which asked for clarification on the administration’s interrogation policy (see June 2003).
		Senator Patrick Leahy responds to Department of Defense William Haynes’ letter of June 25, 2003 (see June 25, 2003).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=patrick_leahy (2123 words)

	Sen. Leahy Cites Girl’s Letter To Congress in Soda Campaign
		Leahy asked unanimous consent of the Senate for Jenny’s letter to be included in the Congressional Record, and it was.
		Leahy’s own statement before the Senate March 20 was in support of S.745, a bill to forbid schools to offer vending machine soda during school lunch and breakfast periods.
		Jenny said that she loves to write, "especially funny stuff." Her most recent accomplishment is writing a script for a school musical, based on the "Prince and the Pauper." She wrote all last summer and this school year.
	www.ourherald.com /news/2001/0607/People/p01.html (542 words)

	Key Democrat rips Roberts on ideology - The Changing Court - MSNBC.com
		Leahy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., both expressed concern about documents that were not released on Monday, asking for investigations into a few that were reported missing.
		Leahy’s declaration came in advance of what is likely to be a string of announcements from groups going on the record opposing Roberts’ confirmation.
		He was sympathetic to prayer in public schools, dismissive of “comparable worth,” referred to the “tragedy of abortion” and took a swipe at the Supreme Court for being too willing to hear multiple appeals from death row inmates.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8982043 (733 words)

	Democracy Now! \| “A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood For”: Sen. Patrick Leahy Blasts Congressional ...
		AMY GOODMAN: On Thursday, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont condemned the legislation from the floor of the Senate.
		PATRICK LEAHY: First off, as you probably gathered from what I was saying on the floor, it’s a terrible bill.
		PATRICK LEAHY: In their defense, all but one of them voted with me when we moved to strike the habeas provisions out.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/09/29/150254 (3070 words)

	Byron York on Judicial Nominations & Patrick Leahy on National Review Online
		In an escalation of the battle over judicial confirmations, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy has accused Republicans of "testing the limits" of a Senate rule restricting criticisms senators may make of each other on the Senate floor.
		Leahy did not deny the charge, nor did he appear on the Senate floor to defend himself.
		The rest of the Leahy letter amounts to a five-page denial of a Republican request that the committee hold a special meeting to handle the Shedd matter.
	www.nationalreview.com /york/york101502.asp (536 words)

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