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Vermont: Patrick Leahy

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 10:02
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This week's PolitickerVT.com's Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

This week's Winners & Losers. | CLICK HERE

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:27

Gubernatorial race intensifies hours before Election Day

By Megan Stewart, Politicker.com Reporter

With just hours until Election Day, gubernatorial candidates have kicked campaigning into high gear.

For the next 48 hours, the top-three gubernatorial candidates will be working almost nonstop to gain the support of every last voter around the state.

Incumbent Gov. Jim Douglas (R-Middlebury) began his campaign marathon before 7:00 am this morning and is slated to end late this evening. The governor has scheduled three radio appearances on top of visiting Police and Fire Departments and local businesses around the state.

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Fri, 10/24/2008 - 06:46
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This week's PolitickerVT.com's Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 11:28

Leahy subpoenas Attorney General Mukasey

By Megan Stewart, Politicker.com Reporter

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Middlesex) subpoenaed Attornery General Michael Mukasey Tuesday, demanding that he testify and provide documents pertaining to the Justice Department's advice to the Bush Administration regarding dealing with alleged terrorists.

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Thu, 10/02/2008 - 10:49

Leahy votes for bailout bill, Sanders against

By Megan Stewart, Politicker.com Reporter

Vermont's Senators split over the $700 bailout bill Wednesday, as Patrick Leahy (D-Middlesex) and Bernie Sanders (I-Burlington) cast opposite votes for the legislation, which ultimately passed by a resounding 49 votes.

Leahy, the Green Mountain State's senior senator, voted for the bailout bill, while Sanders, one of two Independents in the Senate, voted against it.

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Leahy emphasized the importance of judicial oversight in the final draft of the bill prior to its passage.

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Mon, 09/29/2008 - 14:03

Leahy blasts Bush administration for 2006 firings

By Megan Stewart, Politicker.com Reporter

Vermont's senior U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Middlesex) vigorously condemned the Bush Administration Monday after a Justice Department report revealed that top officials failed to supervise subordinates who dismissed some department employees based on their partisan leanings.

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Thu, 09/18/2008 - 11:28

Vt.'s congressional delegation reacts to increased heating aid

By Megan Stewart, Politicker.com Reporter

As the weather turns colder and summer turns into fall, Vermont received Wednesday more than $2.4 million in additional federal aid for home heating relief for the coming winter months.

President Bush Wednesday ordered Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt to release the remaining reserve funds from the Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program-approximately $120 million-as requested by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Middlesex) and supported by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Burlington) and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Hartland).

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Mon, 09/01/2008 - 15:17

Report: Vermont legislators' income below average

By Jennifer DePaul

The Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., has released the results of a new study showing all three members of the Vermont congressional delegation fall below the income average of their respective houses of government, The Burlington Free Press reports.

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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:31

This week's PolitickerVT.com Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

[img_assist|nid=1251|title=|desc=|link=none|align=none|width=420|height=107]Former Gov. Howard Dean (D) is by far the biggest winner this week. Find out why and see all of this week's Winners & Losers. | CLICK HERE

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Tue, 08/26/2008 - 17:55

Leahy: Obama the right candidate for rural Americans

By Daniel Trudeau

[img_assist|nid=1528|title=U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy addressing the Democratic National Convention|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=none|width=420|height=220]In his speech to the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy said presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would do right by rural Americans.

Leahy started his presentation by telling the delegates that he lives on a dirt road in a town of 1,800.

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