Patrick Leahy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Patrick Leahy


00:01:37 1 Early life and family
00:03:11 2 U.S. Senator
00:03:16 2.1 Early career (1975–1999)
00:11:22 2.2 Later career (1999–present)
00:25:59 2.3 Committee assignments
00:27:04 3 Political positions
00:27:20 3.1 Abortion
00:28:03 3.2 Cannabis
00:28:33 3.3 Civil justice
00:28:59 3.4 Civil rights and privacy
00:29:43 3.5 Criminal justice
00:30:44 3.6 Defense
00:31:34 3.7 Economy
00:32:11 3.8 Environment
00:32:37 3.8.1 Climate change
00:34:03 3.8.2 Pipelines
00:34:40 3.9 First Amendment
00:35:00 3.10 Gun laws
00:35:23 3.11 Health care
00:36:57 3.12 Human rights
00:37:52 3.13 Internet privacy
00:38:20 3.14 Immigration
00:40:15 3.15 North Korea
00:40:58 3.16 Controversy
00:41:51 3.17 Other
00:42:06 4 Awards
00:42:33 5 Personal life
00:44:05 5.1 Comic book fan
00:45:34 5.1.1 Filmography
00:45:42 6 Electoral history



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Patrick Joseph Leahy (; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Vermont, a seat to which he was first elected in 1974. A member of the Democratic Party, Leahy held the position of President pro tempore of the United States Senate from December 17, 2012, to January 6, 2015, and was thus during that time third in the presidential line of succession. Now in his eighth six-year term of office, he is currently (since the December 2012 death of Daniel Inouye) the most senior member of the Senate, and is also the last of the Senate's "Watergate Babies" – Democrats first elected to Congress in 1974, following President Richard Nixon's August 9, 1974 resignation over the Watergate scandal. Additionally, Leahy remains one of the only two sitting U.S. Senators, the other being Orrin Hatch of Utah, to have served during the presidency of Gerald Ford. Leahy received the title of President pro tempore emeritus in January 2015.
The current dean of the state's congressional delegation, Leahy is Vermont's longest-serving U.S. Senator, and as of 2018 is the only Democrat the state has ever elected to the Senate. He is the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and serves as the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. In 2001, Leahy was one of the two U.S. Senators targeted by the anthrax attacks that killed five people. 
After the resignation of John Conyers in 2017, he became the longest-serving Democrat in the current 115th Congress.