Patrick Leahy News

Nov. 22, 2009 11:12 a.m. While socialized Obamacare is in the headlights, our lame-stream media - ignoring most of the facts about the Obama/Pelosi/Reid plan - has mostly ignored Wednesday's Senate Judicial meeting with Eric Holder about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in criminal courts instead of military tribunals.

Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Obama.

Close OPINION NOVEMBER 20, 2009, 10:24 P.M. ET The attorney general's Senate testimony this week did nothing to reassure the families of 9/11's victims.

Democrats called a revamp of the nation's health care system long overdue as historic legislation advanced toward a Saturday night Senate showdown, an early test of party unity on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative "The country suffers when there is a failure to act on serious challenges that millions of ordinary Americans face in ...

Mexican labor on Vermont farms has been a not-so-secret secret for several years.

Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal.

Another Keystone cop strikes again : If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday.

President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: "Failure is not an option." In one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a ...

Live from New York .... ! So, dangerous foreign terrorists who seek to destroy the United States now get the same constitutional protections afforded American citizens? "We have a president who doesn't know we're at war," Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot of the hijacked jetliner that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, said Friday after ...

Says Americans Should Show World Our Justice System Works, While GOP Rep. Fears Trial Would "Rip Open Wound" of 9/11 Sen.

By LARRY MARGASAK Democrats on Tuesday crushed a Senate filibuster against a controversial appeals court nominee, demonstrating to Republicans they can't stop President Barack Obama from turning the federal judiciary to the left.The 70-29 vote limited debate over the qualifications of U.S. District Judge David Hamilton of Indiana, and assured his ...

Steve Larrabee has an ambitious plan for Vermont Republicans in 2010. The new chairman of the Vermont Republican Party said in addition to holding onto the offices of governor, lieutenant governor and state auditor, he will focus on increasing the minority party's numbers in the House and the Senate.

Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radical Islamists a platform to propagate their ideology, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday.

The Obama administrationa s decision to try five Sept. 11 suspects in federal court in Manhattan is a a oemistakea thata s inappropriate for combating terrorism, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said.

Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra on Sunday lambasted the Obama administration's decision to prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept.

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute five individuals accused of conspiring in the 9/11 attacks in U.S. federal court drew swift reactions from Real Americans .

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Rep. Peter Welch is asking a U.S. House committee to launch an investigation into a private security firm operating in Iraq after bribery allegations surfaced Wednesday in a media report.

By Cindy Von Quednow - A law enacted five years ago to try to prevent wrongful criminal convictions has worked, witnesses told a Senate committee, but they also said it could be improved.

Democrats will hear from U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy. Progressives will listen to Con Hogan.