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 ...

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 ...

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In a surprise move, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said Wednesday he’s turned down a chance to head the Senate’s most powerful committee. Since the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) Monday, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, holds out little hope that President Obama's embattled Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, is ever going ...

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 ...

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.