Tag: Patrick Leahy

Judiciary Committee Approves Gun Trafficking Bill

Other bills on hold and their fate is uncertain

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AP

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a gun trafficking bill Thursday but recessed before voting on several other contentious gun-control measures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D., Calif.) assault weapons ban.

Leahy Denies Gutting Email Privacy Bill

Aide: 'There are not going to be any changes for allowing warrantless access to email'

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Patrick Leahy / AP

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) denied carving out broad authority for warrantless searching of Americans’ email accounts Tuesday following a news report he had rewritten a Senate bill originally intended to strengthen electronic privacy.

Pat Leahy’s Bad Faith

Vermont Democrat suggests his colleagues support Israel’s interests over the United States’ during debate over status of Palestinian refugees

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Sen. Patrick Leahy / AP

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) last Thursday criticized a hotly contested proposal concerning Palestinian refugees for not putting “the United States’ interests first”—a charge that critics said evokes the “Israel firster” slur at the center of the Middle East debate.