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Patrick Joseph Leahy OBE (/ ˈ l eɪ h i / LAY-hee; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023.
The bills of the 119th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 119th United States Congress.. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the lower house known as the House of Representatives and the upper house known as the Senate.
Congressman Rush Holt, whose district in New Jersey includes a mailbox from which anthrax letters are believed to have been mailed, called for an investigation of the anthrax attacks by Congress or by an independent commission he proposed in a bill entitled the Anthrax Attacks Investigation Act (H.R. 1248). [148]
David Carle, Leahy’s press secretary, did not disclose the specifics of the 80-year-old senator’s condition, only saying he “was not feeling” after returning to his office from the trial.
The Senate’s longest-serving Democrat is retiring after 47 years in office — the latest major retirement ahead of 2022's midterm elections. Sen. Patrick Leahy Not Running For Reelection Skip ...
Former Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy championed legislation that became the Leahy law in the 1990s, saying the U.S. needed a tool to block American military aid and training to foreign security units ...
The Senate alone considers treaties, which are ratified by a two-thirds vote. The first public law enacted in the 115th Congress ( Pub. L. 115–1 (text) (PDF) ) was the last law signed by President Barack Obama , and he signed it into law in the Capitol in the last hour of his presidency on January 20, 2017, shortly before the inauguration of ...
Calling on Vice President Michael R. Pence to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the Cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th Amendment to declare President Donald J. Trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting President. [1] H.Res. 22: January 11, 2021