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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· May 2, 2022

How important are the resources for non-defense research?

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· May 2, 2022

I will not be here next year, but I look at some who will and we will try to get a clean slate for the committee beginning at noon on January 3rd.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· May 2, 2022

We are on the cusp of negotiating a final comprehensive bill that is going to ignite our efforts to be able to compete with China.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· May 2, 2022

I think the President's budget looks not just at the current issues but anticipates what we have to look at first.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· May 2, 2022

I have long believed the military does not act in isolation from the rest of the government.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 28, 2022

I wish to submit to the Senate a budget scorekeeping report. The report, which covers fiscal year 2022, was prepared by the Congressional Budget Office pursuant to section 308(b) and in aid of section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of…

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 28, 2022

Monday of last week was liberals' favorite holiday: Tax Day--which usually serves as an annual reminder of just how big the government has gotten. However, instead of paying taxes on only one day of the year, Americans are being forced to…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 27, 2022

I am pleased to see the administration propose increased funding for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), a vital source of funding for food banks, which I support.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 27, 2022

I just want to thank you, Mr. Secretary. I know the final spending package for fiscal year 2022 saw a responsible, and I believe very transparent, return to congressionally directed spending.

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 27, 2022

Last week Customs and Border Protection released their monthly report detailing how bad President Biden's border crisis has become. The numbers are quite startling. In March alone, CBP confirmed 221,303 migrant encounters at our southern…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 27, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on opioid usage across the Nation.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 27, 2022

I have worked with Senators Baldwin, Hoeven, and Shelby to put in the fiscal year 2022 Spending Bill.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Apr 27, 2022

Our Nation has lost a lifelong leader and trailblazer--Madeleine Albright--a woman I had the chance to know and to learn from, and a woman with whom I shared a first name. Madeleine Albright was a woman of clarity, grace, intellect, and…

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 27, 2022

Reports of clandestine flights taking thousands of illegal immigrants across the country on behalf of U.S. taxpayers are extremely concerning. In his 45 years as a United States Senator, and Vice President, and now President, Joe Biden has…

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 27, 2022

Inflation is an invisible tax that Americans pay every day. Everywhere you look, inflation is wreaking havoc. At the gas station, gas is up 48 percent; at the grocery store, beef is up 20 percent; chicken, up 15 percent; butter, up 14…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 26, 2022

Nobody condones the crackdown on the people who are peacefully protesting in there, but I also don't--I don't condone the total rollback of the policy that we had under the Obama administration.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Apr 26, 2022

the opioid crisis continues to inflict devastating consequences on the health and well-being of people in this country.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 26, 2022

I can't think of anything I have seen more shocking than the scenes of what the Russian soldiers are doing, machine gunning families as they are trying to run away from something, the children, innocent civilians have been murdered.

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