Patrick Leahy News

A new program set up to develop new Vermont farm products has won a $469,000 federal grant.

Hundreds of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, veterans and their family members from around the state flocked to downtown Barre on Saturday and paraded down Main Street to say thank you to the men and women who have donned military uniforms and served the United States of America.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved two bills that would require organizations with data breaches to report them to potential victims.

The cases of two men charged in connection with the death of John Reiss have been moved to Vermont District Court in St.

A sweeping new bill that would implement a national standard for data protection and breach notification got a boost of support today from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The average school meal travels more than 1,500 miles. No more than a third of Vermont children eat the recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables.

A former acting chief of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel said Tuesday he is "not opposed" to a criminal investigation of the office, which was at the center of the Bush administration's internal debate about torture.

A Vermont plan to install electricity smart meters and other technologies to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy costs will receive nearly $70 million in stimulus money.

Sen. Patrick Leahy is on track to raise and spend more money for his 2010 re-election campaign than in any of his six previous Senate races, even though no Republican opposition has yet surfaced.

Vermont's congressional delegation says the state's Air National Guard base is a finalist to become one of the first operational bases for the next generation fighter plane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

President Obama was set to sign legislation Oct. 28 that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal hate crimes protections.

An 11-year odyssey for U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy ended Thursday when President Barack Obama signed a federal hate crime bill into law.

A U.S. law that would require businesses to report data breaches to potential victims could help law enforcement agencies fight the growth of cybercrime, a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation official said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama speaks Thursday morning to small business leaders about the administration's plans to offer them assistance.

Flanked by defense officials and members of Congress, President Obama on Wednesday signed into law an LGBT hate crimes measure as part of a major defense bill.

During the next three years, Vermont's electric utilities plan to install electric meters at nearly every residence and business that doesn't already have state-of-the-art metering devices capable of communicating in real time about electricity use.

A decade of work done by the Senate culminated in the passing of Federal hate crimes legislation on Thursday.

In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up." But in pillorying insurers over profits, the critics are on shaky ground.

A $1 million federal grant to Vermont Information Technology Leaders Inc. will enable physicians in the state to access free electronic prescribing software.

Click on picture to enlarge. AP Photo: Susan Walsh In this Oct. 21, 2009, photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, accompanied by Sen.