Patrick Leahy News

A telephone records surveillance program run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency raises serious privacy concerns and should be reined in, some U.S. senators said Wednesday.

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to move carefully before making any changes that might restrict the National Security Agency programs for mass collection of people's phone records and information from the Internet.

Two U.S. Senators, the winner of a Nobel Prize for peace, a labor leader and the owner of a professional tennis team are among the people being honored with a national prize for public service.

In a boost for supporters of a major immigration reform bill now on the Senate floor, the Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday reported that the plan would reduce the nation's budget deficit over the next two decades, as backers said it showed the "economic imperative" to approve immigration law changes.

Glen Goodall served in the South Pacific during World War II, now the Williamstown vet is in Washington D.C. for two very special honors.

Try as we might, we've yet to be able to muster more than a squinty-blur of possible Christian Bale self-immolating attraction to Sen. Marco Rubio, though, given his recent flamboyant flare-ups in the face of the gay question, maybe we ought to give ol' eyes-too-wide a second glance? He doth protest a bit too much, after all.

A former Ivy League professor who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1982 has died in Maine.

Some Democratic senators are discussing legislation to counter the possibility the Supreme Court will overturn a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Vermont's congressional delegation is pushing proposals that would limit the government's surveillance powers and reveal authorities' rationale in deciding when to use those powers.

Before U.S. lawmakers decide whether they will address same-sex couples in a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill, the Supreme Court could make the decision for them.

Melanie Servetas lived the American dream. She had a six-figure salary as an executive with Wells Fargo, a Jaguar and a three-bedroom house in sunny Southern California.

Received two fundraising e-mails from two Senators I admire who are supporting Congressman Ed Markey's U.S. Senate bid.

Already a social media star, Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking on a new platform: Reddit.

'Seeking equal protection under our laws for the LGBT community is the right thing to do,' Leahy said in a statement.

The sexual assaults of military personnel, that have been happening across the country, have apparently also been happening right here in our own backyard.

One of the more darkly entertaining things about the whole VerizonBusinessGate story is how "PATRIOT" Act author Jim "Tex" Sensenbrenner is trying oh so hard to run away from the results of a law he not only wrote, but has protected from even the tiniest civil-liberties-oriented revisions over the years.

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Attorney General Bill Sorrell confirmed his office was looking into the matter this week on the Mark Johnson Show on WDEV radio.

Dir.: We've all gotten more than a snoot-full the past couple weeks of our unelected betters in high and secretive places and their jolly fat friends in Fairfax County, VA, the intelligence contractors.

The case of a Navy veteran who spent time in Vermont is helping push Congress to approve legislation to upgrade services for veterans victimized by sexual assault while in the armed forces.