WASHINGTON — Patrick Leahy was swept into the Senate nearly a half-century ago in the wake of the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon’s resignation and pardon. After a historic career, the ...

After 48 years representing Vermont in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Patrick Leahy performed his final official act in Vermont on Dec. 10 at the Vermont Statehouse – the same building where, in 1974, he had ...

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U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., first entered Congress decrying Washington’s parliamentary rules and systems of seniority. Now, nearly five decades later, he exits one of the system’s greatest ...

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Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will not seek re-election at the end of his term, he told reporters in his home state Monday. "It is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter who will carry on this work ...

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, speaks at a press conference in Burlington on Feb. 24, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As the brutal war between Israel and Hamas nears its fourth month, ...

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is "comfortably recovering" following surgery to repair a broken hip after he fell in his Virginia home on Wednesday. Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont ...

Congressional leaders working to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill this week are some of the same ones who are honored in the bill with language naming certain buildings or programs after them. On ...