Refine Search
...would oppose the most innocuous of proposals to reduce gun violence: criminal background checks.Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) reminded LaPierre that the NRA once supported checks with "no loopholes anywhere, for anyone." So...
...businesses are often out of reach of U.S. laws.The Protect IP (Intellectual Property) Act, introduced by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, would give the government and copyright- and trademark-holders...
...of the president's own party, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy D-Vt., assailed the White House's "narrow interpretation" of the whistle-blower protections. They said...
...cartels, yet tens of millions of dollars could be lost because of a standoff between the State Department and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt.. Mr. Leahy chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the State Department, which administers...
...cross-contaminated at a New Jersey postal facility that had processed the anthrax-laden letters to Democratic Sens. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Tom Daschle of South Dakota. That conclusion stemmed from the discovery last week of a letter in...
...business meeting this week could well be its last this term. David Carle, spokesman for Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., explains the delay by noting that the clock has run out. Concerning Estrada, he says, senators...
...people sentenced to death in America in the late 20th century have been absolutely, undeniably innocent,'' Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., a leading sponsor of one of the bills, told the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. ''A system...
...been introduced in the Senate so far. One is a bipartisan measure backed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., and his predecessor as chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. Their bill would simply and straightforwardly...
...answers is another fact that senators will have to take into account in deciding how they will vote," said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote next Wednesday on...
...now vacant, the remaining federal judges are buried under burgeoning court dockets. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy has argued that the Sept. 11 terrorism and its aftermath slowed the confirmation pace. Still, Democrats have refused...