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433 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-4242 Fax: 202-224-3479
Contact Patrick Leahy via web
| Term Start | Term End | Role | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2010 | Senator | VT | Democrat |
| See All 6 Terms | ||||
Committee Membership
- Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Senate Appropriations
- Commerce, Justice, and Science and Related Agencies
- Defense
- Homeland Security
- State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
- Senate Judiciary
Most Recent Sponsored Bills
Sponsored Bill Statistics
Recent Voting History
| Bill | Voted |
|---|---|
|
H.R.1256 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. 1247 ) |
Aye (with party)
June 08, 2009 |
|
H.R.1256 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 1256 ) |
Aye (with party)
June 02, 2009 |
|
H.R.2346 Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 On Passage of the Bill (HR 2346 As Amended ) |
Aye (with party)
May 21, 2009 |
Voting Trends Analysis
- Most often votes with: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
- Least often votes with: Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
- Republican most often votes with: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
- Democrat least often votes with: Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
- Votes with party: 99% (Ranks 10 of 100)
- Abstains: 0% (Ranks 28 of 100)
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| People | Bills | Issues |
|---|---|---|
Patrick Leahy in the News
July 04, 2009 Senate Republicans question Sotomayor's views on racial bias
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the committee, said this week that the PRLDF has taken "extreme positions" in the past. ...
July 04, 2009 Group Sotomayor belonged to sued over job tests
...this request, we already had a more public and complete picture of Judge Sotomayor than for previous nominees," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman, said in a statement. "This well-respected civil rights advocacy organization has cooperate
Source: New York Newsday
July 04, 2009 Leahy aide appointed to Vt. federal farm post
MONTPELIER (AP) â A longtime aide to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy has been named executive director for the federal Farm Service Agency in the state. ...
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Patrick Leahy in the Blogs
July 04, 2009 European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
She founded the organic program at USDA, she wrote the original organic law for Senator Patrick Leahy and she's a real staunch supporter of sustainable agriculture and she's running the Department of Agriculture! ...
Source: European Tribune
July 04, 2009 ontd_political: GOP: Sotomayor has ties to "Extremist" group!!
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will begin confirmation hearings July 13, shrugged off the GOP concerns being raised about Sotomayor, saying some in the GOP were going to oppose any Obama ...
Source: ONTD: Politics
July 04, 2009 baithak: Fixing the World and more...
The increasing support for the formation of a Truth Commission by Senator Patrick Leahy to investigate the warrantless wiretapping, torture and other allegations of wrongdoing by the Bush administration further illustrates the incipient ...
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Featured Members of Congress
On February 09, 2009 Patrick Leahy was featured on the homepage of OpenCongress:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) recently called for the creation of a "truth commission" to investigate the Bush administration's conduct in relation to torture and the build-up to the Iraq war. "Many Americans feel we need to get to the bottom of what went wrong, Leahy said during a lecture at Georgetown University. "We need to be able to read the page before we turn it."
Campaign Contributions
Top Contributor: Technet ($81,491)
| Industry | Donation | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Lawyers & Lobbyists | $856,478 | 36.0 % |
| Communic/Electronics | $526,316 | 22.1 % |
| Finance/Insur/RealEst | $247,803 | 10.4 % |
| Other | $186,029 | 7.8 % |
| Misc Business | $184,260 | 7.7 % |
| Health | $99,600 | 4.2 % |
| Agribusiness | $77,226 | 3.2 % |
| Defense | $72,400 | 3.0 % |
| Ideology/Single-Issue | $66,750 | 2.8 % |
| Labor | $39,500 | 1.7 % |
| Energy/Nat Resource | $12,000 | 0.5 % |
| Construction | $5,900 | 0.2 % |
| Transportation | $5,450 | 0.2 % |
| Total: | $2,379,712 |
