WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), Katheri  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on July 8: Last week the heads of state from Mauritania, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali, comprising the so-called G-5 Sahel countries, as well as France and Spain, met in Mauritania to discuss the next phase of efforts to combat terrorism in the Sahel. The final communique from the meeting stresses the need for the parties to "intensify the fight on all fronts." I want to highlight one aspect of this eff  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer's (D-N.Y.) support for his amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which has been guaranteed a floor vote during the week of July 20th. "Let me thank Sen. Schumer for his support for my amendment to cut the bloated $740 billion Pentagon budget by 10% and invest $74 billion in communities that have been ravag  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: At the request of Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report, "Trends in the Internal Revenue Service's Funding and Enforcement," examining the causes of hundreds of billions of dollars in annual tax avoidance and evasion, facilitated by budget cuts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). CBO found that the estimated amount of taxes   more