Patrick Leahy: “In critical ways, our Committee is abandoning its tradition of exhaustively vetting Supreme Court nominees.”

We thought that the decision that was made was prudent and long overdue.

On February 23rd of this year, Senators Schumer and Coburn and I wrote you a letter commending your decision to sever ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR.

Do not turn your material, do not turn your reports over to the Executive Branch and let them tell you what is or is not classified.

People in the Trump administration who know nothing and care less about these programs are arbitrarily jeopardizing relations with a strategic partner in one of the most challenging regions of the world.