[114], In September 2017, Leahy was one of eight senators to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a defense policy bill that included $640billion in base defense spending and $60billion in war funds. [203] The Leahys have resided in a farmhouse in Middlesex, Vermont, since moving from Burlington, and have three children. [127], Leahy endorsed fellow Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign. In March 1994, during a news conference, Leahy pledged that he would preserve funding for TEFAP, noting his 1987 lawsuit against Agriculture Secretary Richard Edmund Lyng and declaring that TEFAP maintained the same level of significance as it did then. [155], Leahy was a longtime critic of the Iraq War, and spoke in favor of timetables for troop withdrawal, saying the country needs well-trained employees in both foreign service and private industry to help repair damage to its civilian structure. The letter asked Trump to report the findings within 120 days, along with a decision on whether to impose sanctions on those found responsible. [150], In January 2019, Leahy was one of 40 senators to introduce the Background Check Expansion Act, a bill that would require background checks for either the sale or transfer of all firearms, including unlicensed sellers. Leahy said the Agriculture Department was the only federal agency to succeed in its downsizing efforts and called on other agencies to follow its example. He praised the 41 schools involved with Public Voice for setting a good example for the rest of the country and cited the importance of school lunches to education. [6] He has been legally blind in his left eye since birth. No. That meant a lot. [32] In 1992, Secretary of State of Vermont Jim Douglas held him to 54 percent of the vote. . We both share optimism, that it can come back. You've seen it change over the last 40 or 50 years. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years. The anthrax letter meant for him was intercepted before it reached his office. So I can look at a lot of them that are in there. [166], In October 2016, Leahy was one of five senators to sign a letter to President Obama requesting that the administration halt work on the Dakota Access Pipeline, until the permitting process of the Army Corps could "be transparent and include public notice and participation, formal and meaningful tribal consultation, and adequate environmental review", and stating their support for the "tribes along the pipeline route in their fight against the Dakota Access pipeline project". He served as ranking member of the Appropriations Committee from 2017 to 2021 and became chairman in 2021. [2][3], On November 15, 2021, Leahy announced that he would not seek reelection in 2022. He has been critical of the PATRIOT Act, even though he has voted to reauthorize altered versions of it. In tracing my husband's family have found his great great grandmother was Catherin Leahy daughter of James Leahy D and Anne Langford. [80] Leahy added that the White House had been subpoenaed, so George W. Bush administration officials could explain "the legal justification they tried to follow when, for years, they wiretapped ordinary Americans and everyone else put out a warrant. [180], In April 2017, after President Trump signed a law undoing a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring internet service providers to obtain their customers' permission to sell their data to advertisers, Leahy was one of 11 senators to sponsor legislation undoing the repeal and reinstating the regulations. They have a daughter, two sons, and five grandchildren. He said he intended "to ensure that this stroke of the president's pen does not derail Vermonters' hard work and leadership to protect our communities from climate risk, and that it does not deter the entrepreneurs and innovators in Vermont and other states who are expanding the world markets for the clean green energy and conservation technologies that will shape our future. Leahy claims that both of these issues disproportionately impact the LGBTQIA+ community. But I had a long talk this weekend with President Biden. Patrick Leahy Height, Age, Net Worth, Affair, Career, and More And others I might look back and say: what was I thinking? Sen. Leahy and his wife, Marcelle Leahy, have three children: Kevin, Alicia, and Mark. They have a daughter, two sons, and five grandchildren. 1 Montpelier Mornings 9. [161][162] In 2015, he voted in support of Obama's Clean Power Plan. [58] In May 1990, he and Representative Dan Glickman introduced the Consumer Seafood Safety Act, a bill that would have strengthened fish inspections. [186], In October 2018, Leahy was one of 20 senators to sign a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to reverse the rolling back of a policy that granted visas to same-sex partners of LGBTQIA+ diplomats who had unions that were not recognized by their home countries, writing that too many places around the world have seen LGBTQIA+ individuals "subjected to discrimination and unspeakable violence, and receive little or no protection from the law or local authorities", and that refusing to let LGBTQIA+ diplomats bring their partners to the US would be equivalent of upholding "the discriminatory policies of many countries around the world".
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