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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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 ...

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) was taken to a Washington, D.C.-area hospital Tuesday afternoon after feeling ill at his Capitol office and was sent home hours later. Leahy spokesperson David Carle wrote ...

Sen. Leahy is trying again to include same-sex couples in immigration bill. June 12, 2013— -- Sen. Patrick Leahy is making another attempt at including same-sex couples in immigration reform. The ...

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont broke his hip after falling at his home. Leahy's office says in a statement Thursday that the 82-year-old Democrat fell Wednesday night in McLean, Virginia. Doctors ...