Patrick Leahy

And, and Democrats and Republicans did.

Pat, Pat Leahy fought hard for that.

Peter Welch did as well.

Peter Shumlin did.

Where are we today? I mean, you got this legislation that the president backs, call for DNA tests before executions.

Does it go far enough? I know you had something to do with, uh, consulting with Pat Leahy-

The senator, yeah

...

Um, in the wake of the September 11 attacks or, or 9/11, two heavily contaminated letters containing high-grade anthrax spores were postmarked and mailed to U.S.

Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.

Yeah, they mailed to a whole bunch of other people.

This was just on that day.

Letters were sent to Tom Brokaw at, at NBC, to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, and in case you've forgotten, twenty-four of his staff actually tested positive for anthrax after the letter was opened in his office.

Senator Patrick Leahy, multiple other New York post offices, and as we heard, thirty-two thousand people, uh, were eventually treated for possible exposure to anthrax as a result of this attack.

It's also worth noting that we still don't have an agreed-upon explanation for who did this.

Uh, we settled a multi-million-dollar claim from one researcher who we said very publicly was, uh, culpable for this, and then retracted that.

So, so-

Well, I, I, I lived in, I lived in Vermont, so I had, uh, uh, Bernie Sanders every day and I had Pat Leahy every day.

Yeah.

And I grew up in St. Louis.

You know, I, I'd always kinda had an eye on politics.

I'd, I had s- interned for Senator Leahy when I was in college, and I'd worked for another US senator, and I always thought at some point I might wanna throw my, my kinda hat in the ring myself.

And in 2011, it was clear the incumbent mayor was not gonna get reelected.

He was, he ended up not even running.

Options include restrictions on our IDF units accused of serious abuses-

That's the Leahy Law

... limits on the use of US-made weapons, and potentially blacklisting Israeli military and police officers accused of allowing settler attacks.

Any action could be delayed until after the election in Israel and after the midterms, but the US officials are keeping a close eye to the issue.

Um, not that significant, but it's at least something.

That's just the Leahy Law.

That's all that is.

That's, that's, that's, he's just talking about applying Leahy.

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Worked in Washington, D.C. for Leahy and on Senator Harris Wolford's campaign, wow, in Pennsylvania.

He worked for Habitat for Humanity in Georgia, Florida, New York, completed a master's at the Kennedy School, founded, uh, returned to Vermont, found- co-founded the Hartland Group, which built, over nine years, h- uh, 200 affordable and market-rate units across Vermont and New Hampshire.

Oh yeah, he was the mayor of Burlington for longer than anybody ever, uh, in terms of consecutive years served.

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And, uh, exactly.

Uh, and I was an intern in Senator Leahy's DC office for eight months, and opened mail and did other kinda intern things.

Yeah.