Leahy: Obama Leaving Thousands Of Refugees In Limbo
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is calling on the Obama administration to correct problems that have left thousands of refugees and as...
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is calling on the Obama administration to correct problems that have left thousands of refugees and as...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
Sen. Leahy detailed how, during the Bush years, the Peace Corps had arrogantly ignored his repeated requests for information. I told him it was a new administration and a new time, but that didn't seem to matter.
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Monday that the confirmation hearing for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
The central debate dominating discussions of a possible investigation into torture by the Bush administration seems to have shifted sharply in the pas...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
The US Senate should pass the Bayh amendment again and ensure that it is not taken out yet again from the Appropriations bill of 2010 under discussion now.
Time | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
More than 30 years ago, a special Senate investigation peered into abuses that included spying on the American people by their own government. The fi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Senator Patrick Leahy and Dick Cheney have a legendarily icy relationship, one that crested with the former Vice President telling the Judiciary Commi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy and White House Chief Counsel Greg Craig discussed on Tuesday the Senator's proposal to set up a truth and rec...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
I don't usually comment on sports, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm no professional sports guy, nor do I play one on the web. But I h...
Government Executive | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics