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Patrick Leahy

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Patrick Leahy is a former United States Senator from Vermont, serving from 1975 until 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the longest-serving senator in Vermont's history and held significant leadership roles, including President pro tempore of the Senate. Throughout his tenure, Leahy was known for his work on issues such as civil liberties, health care, and environmental protection. He played a key role in various legislative efforts, including the Violence Against Women Act and initiatives to reform the criminal justice system.

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Sep 21, 2010

Well, thank you, and thank you for telling me what we in Congress intended to do when we wrote the legislation.

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Sep 21, 2010

It is a growing and will continue to be a growing concern. It is no longer an idea of fiction.

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Sep 21, 2010

I think we know we need that. We just do not want to throw the good out with the bad as we do it.

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Sep 21, 2010

this has been the most dysfunctional session of Congress I can remember.

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Sep 21, 2010

ECPA has provided vital tools to law enforcement to investigate crime and to keep us safe.

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Sep 21, 2010

What we have to do is make sure we stop that.

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Sep 21, 2010

But also the threats are a lot greater today, too. So we will work together on that.

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Sep 21, 2010

I am very much worried about a bank robber who sits offshore and steals several hundred million dollars.

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Sep 21, 2010

determining how best to bring this privacy law into the Digital Age is going to be one of our biggest challenges.

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Sep 21, 2010

I could not agree more. It is easy to say we are all against terrorists.

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Sep 21, 2010

I do agree with you that we have got to have a balance that allows us to protect law enforcement and allows us to protect individual liberties.

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Sep 21, 2010

the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA, is one of the Nation's premier digital privacy laws.

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Sep 21, 2010

We need to make sure that whatever we do addresses our cybersecurity needs of today.

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Sep 21, 2010

We still pass bipartisan legislation. John Cornyn and I passed an update on FOIA in the Senate last night unanimously.

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Sep 21, 2010

I commend the Senate for promptly taking up the Freedom of Information Act amendments to the Securities Exchange Act, Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act of 2010, S. 3717--an important, bipartisan bill to ensure that the…

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Sep 20, 2010

few things are more important to the future of the American economy and job creation than protecting our intellectual property. The Chamber of Commerce estimates that American intellectual property accounts for more than $5 trillion of the…

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Sep 16, 2010

today, I am introducing bipartisan legislation to add military veterans to the list of groups eligible to receive excess property donations from the Federal Government. The sacrifices that members of our armed forces make every day for us…

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Sep 16, 2010

I am very pleased to join today with the Senator from Kansas, Senator Brownback, in introducing a piece of legislation that has already attracted broad support from across the social and political spectrum. This bill, titled the Foreign…

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Sep 16, 2010

During the Vietnam war more than 20 million gallons of herbicide known as Agent Orange, much of it containing the highly toxic chemical dioxin, were stored, mixed, handled, and sprayed by U.S. airplanes over millions of acres of forest and…

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Sep 14, 2010

organic farmers are happy for strict regulation that reassures the consumer that food they are purchasing is produced in the way they expect.

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Sep 14, 2010

I try never to tell the Vermont--or suggest to the Vermont legislature what they should do in the vain hope that they would return the compliment.

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Sep 14, 2010

We had a strong bipartisan coalition we put together.

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Sep 14, 2010

All their work, both on and off the farm, is directed to forge connections between the people, the food and the land.

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Sep 14, 2010

You are right what you said about the way of life, and that is a significant part of it. But you also want to be able to make a profit.

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Sep 14, 2010

I want our farmers to be able to export, of course. I mean, this is good for our country and our economy.

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