Patrick Leahy

I was proud to add funding to complete the project when the Army identified it as an unfunded priority.

The VA needs to continue to ensure that Compensation and Pension (C&P) exams are conducted timely, accurately, and within a reasonable distance for the veterans.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) invests $40 million in Lake Champlain.

I want to thank you and the administration for once again including $20 million in funding in the President's budget to support the EPA's Geographic Program for Lake Champlain.

I have been a strong advocate for this program since it grew out of the Northern Forest Land Council.

The time to act to reduce carbon emissions within the transportation sector is now, and I applaud the efforts made by President Biden and the Department of Energy to realize this goal.

How important are the resources for non-defense research?

I will not be here next year, but I look at some who will and we will try to get a clean slate for the committee beginning at noon on January 3rd.

I have long believed the military does not act in isolation from the rest of the government.

We are on the cusp of negotiating a final comprehensive bill that is going to ignite our efforts to be able to compete with China.

I think the President's budget looks not just at the current issues but anticipates what we have to look at first.

I just want to thank you, Mr. Secretary. I know the final spending package for fiscal year 2022 saw a responsible, and I believe very transparent, return to congressionally directed spending.

I have worked with Senators Baldwin, Hoeven, and Shelby to put in the fiscal year 2022 Spending Bill.

I am pleased to see the administration propose increased funding for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), a vital source of funding for food banks, which I support.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on opioid usage across the Nation.

Those who don't understand the mistakes of history, it is almost a cliche, but they are condemned to repeat them.

I can't think of anything I have seen more shocking than the scenes of what the Russian soldiers are doing, machine gunning families as they are trying to run away from something, the children, innocent civilians have been murdered.

The world is going to see this, because there is no question that it is crimes against humanity.

I think Vermont is a place where you can develop your conscience. I think of the Senate as a place that should be the conscience of the Nation, and sometimes is.

Nobody condones the crackdown on the people who are peacefully protesting in there, but I also don't--I don't condone the total rollback of the policy that we had under the Obama administration.

I have a feeling you are going to need a lot more for humanitarian demining.

Today is an historic day.

Let`s get back to regular order.

That`s an abrogation of everything the Senate should stand for. You had a Republican member who went way over the time allotted and ignore the rules of the committee, badgered the nominee with would not even let her answer the questions…

I couldn’t help but think, was this aimed for this hearing or aimed for a political campaign? What are some of these senators doing? Making sound bites for their political campaigns, some of them running for president?