Patrick Leahy actually said...

Slashing non-defense programs to pay for an increase in defense spending is not a solution and would not make our Nation safer.

Leahy criticizes budget cuts to non-defense programs as harmful.

03/21/2017

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Also, back in 2007, Senator Cornyn and I authored the Open Government Act to strengthen FOIA.

the transparency that we are supposed to have in FOIA is a promise to everybody in this country because it impacts the lives of Americans al...

[a] popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both...

Of course, in the National Defense Act, we tried to put in a very, very narrow exemption.