Honorable Patrick Leahy
United States Senator, Vermont, Democrat
Senator Leahy was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974. He chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. The following is excerpted from the March 4, 2009, Senate floor debate on the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009. It is hard to understand what the real purpose of the amendment is, although the junior Senator from Mississippi [Roger Wicker (R)] says the purpose is as follows: To require that amounts appropriated for the United Nations Population Fund are not used by organizations which support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. I do not know anybody who would disagree with that. But apparently he…
