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 December 4, 2010, Senate floor debate on two amendments relating to the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. With the Bush-era tax cuts from 2001 set to expire at the end of the year, the whole debate about what to do…
