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The big Senate changes are probably Udall's departure and Feinstein and Leahy losing their committee chairs.

You'll note that Sen Leahy states in that document that he did, in fact, have access to the complete classified list.

Maybe then they will put pressure on Congress to finally pass the bipartisan bill that Leahy and Harry Reid forced to be shelved.

Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and met with a generally chilly response...

Reid told Leahy he could not put the bill on the floor given the opposition from trial lawyers, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology giants, the sources said.

> The big Senate changes are probably Udall's departure and Feinstein and Leahy losing their committee chairs.

Given all the pressure that we know the content lobby brings to bear on legislators, and how eager democratic legislators like Leahy have historically been to do this lobby's bidding, I find nothing farfetched about this chain of events whatsoever.

Sometimes, it all falls onto one man, such as the Audit the Fed bill, which also got a huge majority in House, but Harry Reid refused to put it on the floor in Senate, or when Patrick Leahy single-handedly killed the recent patent reform bill.

Patrick Leahy, senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the government’s use of license-plate readers “raises significant privacy concerns.

On the other hand, Leahy also thought the bomb would never work (he even used his "expertise in explosives" to support that argument).

Patrick Leahy, after reading the full classified list: “We've heard over and over again the assertion that 54 terrorist plots were thwarted” by the two programs, Leahy told Alexander at the Judiciary Committee hearing this month.

You characterize this as Reid simply trying to "spread the blame" but it wasn't the trial lawyers that sent a letter to Leahy the morning the bill was killed.

What an incredible abuse from Paypal, yet again (and of course from Visa, Mastercard and Leahy).

As for Leahy, there's a reason why the Sunlight Foundation and the other groups have been critical of his bill.

S.1196 - Aaron's Law Act of 2013 - is in the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Patrick Leahy, a Democrat not a Republican.