Patrick Leahy actually said...

In this increasingly interdependent world, the United States simply cannot afford to have our partners at the negotiating table question our...

If we fail to honor our consular obligations at home, American citizens, including your constituents, pay the price overseas.

the Constitution, Federal laws, and treaties to be treated as 'the supreme Law of the Land.'

we cannot possibly tweak and adjust the Constitution without going through the process of a constitutional amendment.