Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Senate president pro tempore and the chamber's current longest-serving member, announced Monday that he plans to retire when his term ends in 2023. "I have reached the ...

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During his 38 years in the U.S. Senate, Patrick Leahy has spent plenty of time in the minority. So it’s no surprise that, like many senior Democrats, he’s looked warily over the years at proposals to ...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a grizzled Democrat who has represented Vermont in the U.S. Senate since President Gerald Ford’s administration, becoming the longest-serving active lawmaker in the chamber, said ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy withdrew two amendments to immigration reform that would have provided protections for binational same-sex couples Tuesday evening. At the end of the ...

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Republicans on Wednesday of stalling the confirmation of nominees for top legal jobs. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaking at the start of a ...

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition World Leaders & Global Citizens: Photographs by Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator; Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, August 23-October 19, 2014; ...

With the sad news that Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) passed away, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is now third in the line of presidential succession, behind the vice president and House Speaker John Boehner.