Patrick Leahy

Obama settles for half measures on gun control

2013-03-18 09:35:00

For all the clamor from the White House and many in Congress to address the American scourge of gun violence, signs continue to point to a half-measure solution at best. President Barack Obama's State of the Union plea to the nation's lawmakers that the...

Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair

2012-12-18 16:33:16

Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...

Mikulski to lead Senate Appropriations Committee

2012-12-19 18:25:15

In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Baltimore native and Maryland Democrat, who had...

Cardin, Mikulski urge Obama to speed withdrawal from Afghanistan

2012-03-07 14:55:00

Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday�to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The Maryland Democrats joined a group of 24 senators in declaring the mission in Afghanistan...

FBI director approves new definition of rape

2011-12-15 19:08:21

The definition of rape that dictates how local police departments report crimes to federal record keepers is expected to change — for the first time in more than 80 years — in early 2012. The final step of changing the Uniform Crime Report...

Judicial filibuster: Not so 'extraordinary' after all

2011-12-07 10:08:00

Remember the "Gang of 14"? That was the bipartisan group of senators who six years ago agreed not to filibuster judicial nominees except under "extraordinary circumstances." Well, looks like some people have decided to redefine "extraordinary" to...

Bloodsworth, prosecutor move on to new things

2009-12-07 14:09:00

Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American death row inmate to be exonerated by DNA evidence, has lived to see something he never could have imagined -- an award named after him, and its first recipient a Democratic senator from Vermont. Tuesday night, at a...

Making a fresh start after identity theft

2005-07-11 00:00:00

Broad anti-terror measures sought

2001-09-18 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Warning that cohorts of last week's suicide hijackers may be a continuing domestic threat, Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday that he is asking Congress to pass by week's end an emergency package of anti-terrorism legislation to...

A Carefully Crafted Deception

1995-06-18 00:00:00

A dangerous truth confronted John Dimitri Negroponte as he prepared to take over as U.S. ambassador to Honduras late in 1981. The military in Honduras -- the country from which the Reagan administration had decided to run the battle for democracy in...

U.S. Senate passes flood-protection bill vital to Cedar Rapids

2013-05-16 00:00:00

This city has been working for the five years since its $7-billion flood disaster to convince Congress to provide help for the city to build a flood protection system. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate, on a vote of 83-14, approved the Water Resources...

In uproar over U.S. seizure of AP records, focus turns to Holder

2013-05-14 08:22:02

By Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated...

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, meets with the panel's ranking Republican, Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, before Tuesday's hearing on the immigration reform bill. Grassley's amendment on student visa requirements was adopted by the committee.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is expected to replace Sen. Patrick Leahy in leading the Senate Judiciary Committee.

2012-12-18 11:44:23

Vice President Joe Biden looks on after swearing in Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) as president pro tempore of the Senate in Washington.

2012-12-18 00:00:00