Patrick Leahy

Our Nation's competition laws are powerful tools to ensure that consumer welfare is the benchmark of fair and accountable industry practices. These competition laws are what make businesses work in America. The vast majority of the…

Today it is my honor to salute a longtime Vermont athletic coach, Bill O'Neil, of Essex High School. Bill has been named the 2006 Hockey Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations. While he has amassed…

Thad Cochran is as close a friend as I have ever had in the Senate. We have traveled together overseas. I have traveled to Mississippi with him. He explained to me I had to slow down my speech a little bit. He has come to Vermont with me…

The Senate, as I have often said, should be the conscience of the Nation. There are only 100 of us to represent 300 million people. Americans expect us to speak up on the war. Americans expect us to vote on the war. Americans expect us to…

I think if we had a consistent program, run the same way everywhere, you would have the actual numbers. It doesn't have to be hard, to count where the numbers are. And it wouldn't be catch us catch can. As I said, our military, in many…

This is not just the Congress; we are talking about the ability to go after State officials, for example, who are diverting public money. We are talking about a group that receives Federal funds and uses bribery to get it, going after or…

If they don't want it, send it back to the Treasury. What I am concerned about, I say to my friend from Utah, and he is my friend, I recall in prosecutor days when legislative bodies would say, Boy, we are going to cut down on crime, we…

I fear that we face a train wreck on the horizon if the plan steams along as is.

It is from strength that America should defend our values and our Constitution. It takes a commitment to those values to demand accountability from the Government. In standing up for American values and security, I will vote against this…

Even though I believe we have made a terrible and tragic mistake in the Senate, including major changes in our constitutional rights willy-nilly to get out to campaign, I realize they have locked this in and there is not much one can do…

Mr. President, this administration has yet to come clean to the Congress or the American people in connection with the secret legal justifications it has generated and secret practices it has employed in detaining and interrogating…

A wall of this magnitude will be a scar in our landscape.

A concentrated market does reduce competition and puts control in the hands of only a few powerful players.

And he is going to have to stay that way.

Well, I would hope we can, but I do not think you can do one without the other.

Well, maybe let me put it this way: We have basically a guest worker program and a path to citizenship.

You have a remarkable story, and I am glad to hear your testimony in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.

I believe there is real merit to President Bush's argument that if we increase the opportunity to come to the United States legally, we will reduce the demand for illegal entry.

The opposition to providing bilingual ballots to bilingual American citizens, who are vested with the right to vote, is a particularly troubling part of this debate.

It is critical that President Bush make good on his commitment to support the Senate's work.

Isolating ourselves and turning this country into a police state is not the way our Nation will remain the beacon of freedom and prosperity it has always been.

I think we reject the best of America and our values when we refuse to recognize all that immigrants bring and mean to this country.

I am sorry to find that the election-year politics seem to have diminished the work the Senate has done to find a comprehensive solution to the Nation's immigration problem.

Regrettably, the Senate leadership is returning again and again to using constitutional amendments as election-year rallying cries to excite the passion of voters. That's wrong.

I have spoken earlier about Mr. Anderson. For those of us who have been prosecutors in Vermont or care about the prosecutor's office, I think President Bush has made a fine choice here. And, of course, I strongly support Mr. Anderson for…