Patrick Leahy

Violence Against Women Act Helps Restore Lives

Mariska Hargitay | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Violence Against Women Act, Violence Against Women, Vawa, Patrick Leahy, Vawa Reauthorization, LGBT Rights, Joyful Heart Foundation, Video, Politics News
Mariska Hargitay

VAWA has protected, improved and restored lives. Reauthorization sends the message that our communities, our families -- and all people -- must be safe; that survivors must have the tools to heal and reclaim their lives; and that breaking the cycle of violence is an unassailable national priority.

Read Post

U.S. Senators Meet With Castro

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Raul Castro, Richard Shelby Cuba, Patrick Leahy, Richard Shelby, Cuba u.s. Relations, Raul Castro Cuba, Patrick Leahy Cuba, Cuba, World News

HAVANA (AP) — A senior U.S. senator met with imprisoned American Alan Gross and discussed the man's case in a long sit-down with Cuban President Rau...

Read Whole Story

Amanda Terkel Pokes Holes In Grassley's Argument

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Politics News, Violence Against Women Act, Msnbc, Video, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Amanda Terkel, Patrick Leahy, Senator Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Joe Biden, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

Protecting women from domestic violence and abuse is one more issue dividing Democrats and Republicans, as The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel pointed...

Read Whole Story

Amanda Terkel

Violence Against Women Act Suddenly Partisan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Biden, Violence Against Women Act, Video, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Patrick Leahy, Senator Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Joe Biden, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Protecting women from violence and abuse has been an issue of bipartisan cooperation since President Clinton signed the landmark Violenc...

Read Whole Story

Army Probes Crime Lab Workers After Critical News Reports

McClatchy | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Army-Criminal-Investigation-Command, McClatchy Newspapers, Army, Charles Grassley, Patrick Leahy, Mcclatchy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Stung by critical stories about their crime laboratory, officials at Army Criminal Investigation Command recently questioned lab employe...

Read Whole Story

Obama Attends Exclusive Dinner, Occupy DC Protests Outside (PHOTOS OF PROTEST)

AP | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Alfalfa Club, Video, Michelle Obama, District of Columbia, Patrick Leahy, John Kerry, Dc Around Town, Obama, Occupy Dc, DC News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is attending the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual black-tie event of the capital's political and business lead...

Read Whole Story

Joshua Hersh

Congress Pushes State Department Over Misused American Tear Gas In Spending Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Video, Foreign Operations Budget, Arab Spring, Egypt, Patrick Leahy, Tahrir Square, Tear Gas in Egypt, Amnesty International, Omnibus Spending Bill, Tear Gas, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The 2012 omnibus spending bill released Thursday morning includes tough new language about the way American tear gas has been used again...

Read Whole Story

Jennifer Bendery

Senate Rejects Bipartisan Balanced Budget Amendments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: John Cornyn, Mark Udall, Video, Patrick Leahy, Balance Budget Amendment Senate, Constitutional Amendment Budget, Orrin Hatch, Balanced Budget Amendment, Bba, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday rejected two efforts to insert a Balanced Budget Amendment into the U.S. Constitution. Both parties offered v...

Read Whole Story

Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish: Proposed Funding Cuts for Response to Violence Against Women

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Violence Against Women Act, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Vawa, Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Amnesty International, Women's Rights Movement, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

Domestic violence is a continuing, costly, and consistently underserved problem. Cutting federal funds for dealing with it is not only bad news, it is a bad idea.

Read Post

Newseum Goes Hollywood For 'J. Edgar' Premiere (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Clint Eastwood, Video, Entertainment, District of Columbia, Patrick Leahy, Newseum, Cathy Lanier, J. Edgar, Dc Around Town, Chris Dodd, Film, Slidepollajax, Movies, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The Newseum played host Tuesday night for the D.C. premiere of "J. Edgar," a biographical drama on the life of legendary and controversi...

Read Whole Story

Sweet Justice: Bill Would Make It A Felony To Sell Fraudulent Maple Syrup

AP | LISA RATHKE | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Fake Maple Syrup Bill, Maple Syrup Law, Video, Maple Syrup Bill, Patrick Leahy, Fake Maple Syrup Law, Bernie Sanders Maple Syrup, Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy Maple Syrup, Weird News News

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont couple thought they were getting a sweet deal on real Vermont maple syrup when they found a good price for it on the...

Read Whole Story

Amanda Terkel

DOMA Repeal Moves Forward In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Senate Judiciary Committee, Doma, Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, 112th Congress, Senate Doma, Human Rights Campaign, Kirsten Gillibrand, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Doma Repeal, Marriage Equality, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Next month, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be voting on legislation to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, an important ste...

Read Whole Story

Nature Lessons From Vermont

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Clean Air, Patrick Leahy, Personal Democracy Forum, Vermont, Tar Sands Action, Bernie Sanders, Green, Hurricane Irene, Van Jones, Toxic Mercury, Epa, Smog, Moms Clean Air Force, Asthma, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Activism, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

Observing the rolling fields, horses and cows, undisturbed acres of rocks and trees, I felt particularly protective of what the earth offers us -- and what we need to do to defend it.

Read Post

Proposed Law Could Endanger Internet Entrepreneurship

Paul Kedrosky | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Website, Patent-Trolls, Small Business, California, Copyright, Patrick Leahy, Entrepreneurs, Protect IP, Intellectual Property, Spotify, Amazon, Small Business America, Startups, turntable.fm, Entrepreneurship, Patents, Technology News
Paul Kedrosky

There are many problems with the PROTECT IP legislation. For starters, a site can be blacklisted the day a U.S. judge receives the complaint. Bang, you no longer exist to American web users.

Read Post

Democrats Slam 'Business Friendly' Supreme Court

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Dems, Chief Justice John Roberts, Senate, Congress, Patrick Leahy, Harry Reid, Gop, Conservative, Democrats, John Roberts, Wal-Mart, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats at a partisan-tinged hearing say the Supreme Court's conservative majority is wrongly favoring businesses over consumer...

Read Whole Story

Elise Foley

Dems Push For DREAM Act Without GOP Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Napolitano Dream Act, Path to Citizenship, Arne Duncan, Patrick Leahy Dream Act, Military Recruitment, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Clifford Stanley, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Patrick Leahy, Deportation, John Cornyn, Education, Chuck Grassley, Dianne Feinstein Dream Act, Janet Napolitano, DREAM Act, Dreamers, Chuck Grassley Dream Act, John Cornyn Dream Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republicans showed no signs of supporting the DREAM Act at a hearing for the bill on Tuesday, with Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Chuck G...

Read Whole Story

Elise Foley

Senate Democrats Relaunch Immigration Reform Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Patrick Leahy, DREAM Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Dick Durbin, Immigration, Robert Menendez, Deportations, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats launched on Wednesday a new effort for comprehensive immigration reform, even though they so far have no Republican sup...

Read Whole Story

Committing to a New Generation of Public Servants

Tik Root | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Bipartisanship, Blackwater, Patrick Leahy, Jfk, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Public Service, Politics News
Tik Root

My generation is itching to make a difference, but we need guidance in order to fully utilize our largely untapped potential.

Read Post

Laying Down the Rules for Private Security Contractors

Ignacio "Iggy" Balderas | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Campaign Finance Reform, Government Contracting, Patrick Leahy, Blackwater, Government Contractors, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Ignacio

The failure to establish effective accountability over private security contractors (PSCs) hasn't just obscured important truths about how our nation secures its foreign policy -- it has allowed some reckless actors to repeatedly endanger this goal.

Read Post

Syria Releases Detained Americans

AP | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Damascus, Mohammaed Radwan, Patrick Leahy, Pathik Root, Syria Protests Detained Americans, Bashar Assad, Syria Protests, Syria, World News

BEIRUT -- Two Americans detained at the outbreak of political unrest in Syria were released Friday after two weeks in custody, said a relative of one ...

Read Whole Story

Vietnam War-Era Bombs Cause Current Day Casualties, Demonstrating Need for Updated Weapons Technology

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Pat Leahy, Patrick Leahy, Oslo Convention, United Nations, President Obama, Obama Administration, United States, Obama, Cluster Bomb Ban, Laos, Barack Obama, Cluster Bombs, Military, Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Landmines, Technology, Oslo, World News
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

In Southeast Asia, UXOs left over from the Vietnam War injure and kill hundreds of people each year.

Read Post

Ryan Grim

Leahy Presses Obama To Name Key Reformer To Swaps Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Leahy, Dodd-Frank, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Commodity Markets Oversight Coaliation, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Senator Patrick Leahy, Derivatives Reform, Derivatives Regulation, Vermont, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Cftc, Goldman Sachs, Cota & Cota, Sean Cota, New England Fuel Institute, Gary Gensler, Financial Regulation, Senate Agriculture Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is lobbying President Obama to appoint Sean Cota, a Vermont business owner and an advocate of the regulation ...

Read Whole Story

US Government Embarrassed by Afghan Woman Again

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Woman Among Warlords, Afghanistan, Sonali Kolhatkar, Taliban, Simon and Schuster, Patrick Leahy, Malalai Joya, State Department, Malalai, Afghan Women's Mission, Joya, Jim McDermott, Scribner, Bernie Sanders, Malalai Joya Call in Day, Malalai Joya Visa, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Malalai Joya, one of Afghanistan's most famous woman, who was just denied a visa for a book tour to the U.S. Having successfully applied for a U.S. visa four times before, this time it is not about Joya, but about the war in Afghanistan.

Read Post

Elise Foley

Democrats Aim For Repeal Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage Ban

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrats Gay Marriage, Patrick Leahy, Respect for Marriage Act, Tammy Baldwin, Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act, Barney Frank, Dianne Feinstein, Justice Department, Defense of Marriage Act, Obama Administration, Jared Polis, Marriage Equality, American Civil Liberties Union, Repeal of DOMA, Jerry Nadler, House Democrats, Senate Dems, Senate Democrats, House Dems, Same Sex Marriage, Doma, David Cicilline, Aclu, Third Way, Kirsten Gillibrand, Gay Marriage, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats launched a repeal effort against the Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday, introducing companion bills in both chambers of Con...

Read Whole Story

Patently Absurd or: How to Go From the World's Best Patent System to Worse-Than-Most in a Single Step

Gary Lauder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inventions, Patents, Small Business, America Invents Act, Patrick Leahy, R&D, Invention, Business News
Gary Lauder

Congress is responding to the companies who can afford to lobby and not bothering to seek the opinions of entrepreneurial inventors -- for whom the patent system was created over 200 years ago by a single sentence in the Constitution.

Read Post