Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday became the first U.S. senator to say he would boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress next month. During an ...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Senate president pro tempore and the chamber's current longest-serving member, announced Monday that he plans to retire when his term ends in 2023. "I have reached the ...

When Sen. Patrick Leahy made the surprise announcement last December that he’d turned down a promotion to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee, his explanation went something like this: With ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy withdrew two amendments to immigration reform that would have provided protections for binational same-sex couples Tuesday evening. At the end of the ...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a grizzled Democrat who has represented Vermont in the U.S. Senate since President Gerald Ford’s administration, becoming the longest-serving active lawmaker in the chamber, said ...