Honorable Patrick Leahy
United States Senator, Vermont, Democrat
Senator Leahy was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974. He was a State’s Attorney of Chittenden County, Vermont, from 1966 to 1974. He chairs the Judiciary Committee and also sits on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee and the Appropriations Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. The following is from a May 26, 2011, statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee during consideration of S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act. Today, this committee has the opportunity to favorably consider and vote to pass important bipartisan legislation to crack down on rogue websites…
