Patrick Leahy actually said...

A failing infrastructure undermines our national security by weakening economic growth and creating vulnerabilities in our bridges, our wate...

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

Sequestration has produced terrible consequences for the average American as well--our infrastructure is failing, investment in job training...

If you guarantee all that, you guarantee diversity. If you guarantee diversity, you guarantee a democracy.