Patrick Leahy actually said...

So we have to act now. We have got to do something to reverse the nearly 50 percent reduction in overall funding for State and local law enforcement.

Leahy calls for immediate action to restore law enforcement funding.

01/07/2009

More Patrick Leahy Quotes

I have seen some of those successes. I have seen your people in the field, sometimes in dangerous conditions, and I applaud you for that.

the entire foreign operations budget is about 1 percent of Federal spending, and the world is rapidly changing.

I do not want to over generalize, but these activities are often not the same as building institutions and organizations.

I think everybody on this panel, both democrats and republicans, have praised you for improving.