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 the March 28, 2012, Senate floor debate on S. 2204, the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. It is long past time to close the wasteful tax loopholes for Big Oil. Over the past 10 years, the five biggest private sector…
