Patrick Leahy

The integrity of our criminal justice system relies heavily on prosecutors.

I am concerned about what happened. It happened here.

I think Matthew Friedrich--and I say so in the report--quite sensibly and understandably took an interest in this high-visibility prosecution of a senior sitting United States Senator.

A prosecutor has a unique position in the system. They are not just there to win.

Yes, full access to fees is critical to help the USPTO achieve strategic goals and performance objectives.

We need help and support from CBP to make it happen.

I considered myself a pretty active prosecutor.

You know what it costs you to have these people locked up. You know what recidivism costs you.

The criminal justice system only works when all relevant evidence is collected, is retained, and is tested.

Something is wrong with that, society suffers, and I think we all suffer on that.

We enacted the Innocence Protection Act as part of the Justice For All Act.

Mr. Haynesworth spent 27 years in prison for a series of rapes he did not commit.

If you have an innocent person locked up, it means that somebody who committed the crime is out there.

I believe we have reached the time for the vote. Am I correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sanders). The Senator is correct. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Gina Marie Groh, of West Virginia, to be…

I want to thank you and your whole Department for all of the help and support you have provided to the State of Vermont in the wake of Hurricane Irene's devastation last August.

When we talk about what the American people want, I am sure the majority leader--and I ask him this as a question-- is aware that there are 160 million Americans who are in judicial districts where there are vacancies, because even though…

Development assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan remains a critical component to supporting our core U.S. national security objective to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda.

Incidentally, we urged him to move as quickly as he could on that.

They all say with unity 'Please keep your embargo.'

I get frustrated when I see one more government that might become a theocracy. We have to watch it carefully.

I supported our mission to go into Afghanistan because the mission was defined as to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

Here in this subcommittee we have supported USAID's procurement reform.

I have said this to Fidel and Raul Castro personally, that in some ways our embargo has been one of the best things going for them.

Sometimes when we ask these questions, they go--not just to you, but to everybody else--they go into some kind of a dark hole and with a feeling that perhaps there is a limited attention span on the part of some of us in the Congress. On…

We should follow up on that because, as Senator Graham also said, getting foreign aid bills passed is not the most popular thing back home.