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18 May 2014, 10:25 pm by Mark Jaycox
Last year, Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner introduced the USA Freedom Act, one of the first comprehensive bills to address multiple aspects of the NSA's spying. [read post]
15 May 2014, 1:47 pm by Joe Mullin
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) promised that a vote would come shortly after the April recess, but it keeps getting delayed. [read post]
15 May 2014, 1:33 pm by George Ticoras, Esq.
Patrick Leahy announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing related to campaign finance next month. [read post]
13 May 2014, 11:50 am by David Markus
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) pointed out that Boggs and the other six nominees Tuesday were negotiated as a package deal between Obama and Georgia's two Republican senators, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss. [read post]
12 May 2014, 3:11 pm by Bill Otis
You better believe it.Three of the most distinguished and experienced members of the Senate, Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn and Jeff Sessions, today wrote an all-colleagues letter explaining why the Smarter Sentencing Act should be defeated.I'm a biased audience, but I found the letter powerful and convincing. [read post]
11 May 2014, 10:20 pm by Cookson Beecher
Rumblings over a new USDA policy about which synthetic (non-organic) materials can be used in organic agriculture sparked heated blowback on legal and political fronts during a four-day meeting late last month of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) in Texas. [read post]
11 May 2014, 12:08 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
On May 7, the House Judiciary Committee voted 32-0 to adopt an amended form of the USA Freedom Act, a bill to rein in NSA spying on Americans, initially proposed by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy and Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner. [read post]
6 May 2014, 9:07 am by Bill Otis
 But with enemies like Patrick Leahy and the ACLU (see below), should we have second thoughts? [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 2:54 pm by Adi Kamdar
Right before Congress went on recess, Senator Patrick Leahy said: "I will circulate a manager's package [for the patent reform bill] the day we return from recess, and the Judiciary Committee will consider that legislation the first week we are back. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 3:34 pm by Lovechilde
  Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chair of the Judiciary Committee, can abandon this custom just as Republican Orrin Hatch did when he was committee chair. [read post]
In 2008, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) was stopped at a checkpoint 125 miles from the Canadian border, one of many examples of agents disregarding the geographic and legal limits on their authority. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 10:56 am by Mark Jaycox and Mark M. Jaycox
Congress, through members such as Senators Patrick Leahy and Ron Wyden; and Representatives Kevin Yoder, Tom Graves, and Jared Polis, are pushing common sense reforms to ECPA like HR 1852 The Email Privacy Act. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 7:53 am by aallwash
In the letter, sent to the commission on Wednesday, Digital Fourth proposed an amendment developed with the lead sponsor of the bill, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), to assuage these concerns and implored the SEC to compromise. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 3:10 pm by Joe Mullin
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) seeks to nail down votes in support of the bill. [read post]