Patrick Leahy: “We have a right to clean air and clean water. We accept that as a right in America.”

Congress was the original classification authority (OCA). It let that power essentially slip away to the Executive Branch.

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.

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.