Senator Leahy has gone to great lengths to make the Judiciary Committee one that functions well. I will lay out in some detail what he has done to maintain the Senate's proper role in the selection of judges.
Discussing the efforts of Senator Leahy as chairman of the Judiciary Committee post-9/11.
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He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.
The Republican Party that we now have is not the Republican Party of John Chafee, Mark Hatfield, those people who were really stalwarts in moving the country forward.
if we have the political will, we have the opportunity to improve the lives of millions of families today and build a stronger, better and more prosperous country for generations to come.
The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.
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