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Statements and Releases from Sen. Patrick Leahy Concerning the War in Iraq

Vermont Congressional Delegation Objects To General Petraeus’ Call For Open-Ended U.S. Role In Iraq April 8, 2008

Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Iraqi Refugees Resettle in Vermont April 2, 2008
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Appropriations Committee Hearing, Waste, Fraud And Abuse In Iraq Reconstruction March 11, 2008 ***Audio and video available***

Remarks Of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) On The Feingold-Reid-Leahy Legislation On The War In Iraq February 27, 2008
Leahy, Sanders Again PushFor Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops From Iraq February 26, 2008

Remarks Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) On Feingold-Reid-Leahy Amendment on Iraq December 18, 2007
Leahy Again Backs Iraq Exit Timeline, Will Oppose Funding Bill Without It December 18, 2007 ***Video Available***

Leahy And Sanders Again Join In Offering Amendment To Require Redeployment Of U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq September 20, 2007
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), On The Feingold Amendment To Redeploy Troops From Iraq September 20, 2007
Congressional Delegation Responds To President Bush's 'Stay The Course' Strategy In Iraq September 13, 2007

Comment Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) On The Testimony Of General Petraeus And Ambassador Crocker On The Continued Deployment Of U.S. Troops In Iraq September 10, 2007
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Redeployment Of U.S. Forces From Iraq July 18, 2007
Leahy To Vote No On Iraq Spending Plan May 24, 2007
Leahy And Sanders Again Vote To Withdraw U.S. Troops From Iraq May 16, 2007
Comment Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On President Bush's Veto Of Bill That Includes Timetable For Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops From Iraq May 1, 2007
Vermont Congressional Delegation Hits President's Threatened Veto Of Iraq Withdrawal Timetable April 26, 2007
Statement Of The Vermont Delegation On The Impeachment Resolution Passed By The Vermont Legislature April 20, 2007
Leahy Will Join In Introducing Feingold-Reid-Leahy Bill To Redeploy Troops From Iraq April 5, 2007
As Senate Passes First Timetable For Withdrawal From Iraq, Leahy And Sanders Call On President To Holster His Veto Pen March 29, 2007
Reaction Of Sen.Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) To President Bush's Wednesday Remarks In Which The President Again Threatens To Veto A Timetable For Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops From Iraq March 28, 2007
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On the FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill March 27, 2007
Reaction Of Senator Patrick Leahy To Republican Leaders’ Blocking Of A Senate Debate On The House-Passed Resolution Of Disapproval Of The President’s Escalation In Iraq February 17, 2007
Remarks Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, The War In Iraq February 15, 2007
Comments Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On Republican Leaders' Efforts To Stall A Debate On The President's Planned Escalation Of The War In Iraq February 6, 2007
The Feingold-Boxer-Leahy Legislation To End U.S. Military Involvement In Iraq February 1, 2007
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Hearing On "The Plight Of Iraqi Refugees" January 16, 2007
Iraq's Toll Of Slain Journalists Continues To Rise December 6, 2006
Comments Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) On The Report Of The Iraq Study Group December 6, 2006
Floor Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On Amendment 5123 To The FY 2007 Military Construction Appropriations Bill November 14, 2006
Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy To The President's News Conference On Iraq October 25, 2006
Comment Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On The Study Of Iraqi Deaths By The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health, As Published In The Medical Journal, The Lancet October 11, 2006
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Preventing Civilian Casualties In Iraq September 29, 2006
At Hearing On Iraq Contract Abuses, Leahy Pushes For Accountability September 18, 2006
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On Iraq Reconstruction Failures July 31, 2006
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Changing Course In Iraq, Senate Floor June 21, 2006
Comment Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On The President's Announcement That Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Has Been Killed June 8, 2006
Senate GOP Ducks And Covers Up In Refusing To Give Continued Support To The Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction May 3, 2006
Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) To The President's Address On U.S. Strategy In Iraq November 30, 2005
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, The War In Iraq, Senate Floor October 25, 2005
Comments Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On The New Release Of Documents About Pre-Iraq Invasion Warnings By State Department Officials Concerning Unpreparedness For Anticipated Problems August 18, 2005
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Iraq Reconstruction July 29, 2005
Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy On Iraq/National Guard Town Meeting Day Resolutions Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Floor Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On How The Bush Iraq Policy Has Been Consistently Wrong October 9, 2004
Comments Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On The Senate Intelligence Committee Report On Pre-Iraq War Intelligence July 9, 2004
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Decision To Go To War June 24, 2004
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On Feingold Amendment On The CPA-IG In Iraq June 23, 2004
Floor Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy The Torture Memos And Squandered Leadership June 23, 2004
Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee, To White House Release Of Certain Documents Relating To The Prison Abuse Scandal June 22, 2004
Backgrounder And Timeline Relating To Tuesday's Release Of Torture Memos By The White House June 22, 2004
Senate Judiciary Republicans Vote To Continue Torture Scandal Cover-Up June 17, 2004
Senate GOP Narrowly Defeats Leahy Measure Targeting War Profiteers June 16, 2004
Fact Sheet On The Anti-War Profiteering Amendment To The Defense Authorization Bill June 15, 2004
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy A Colossal Failure Of White House Leadership In Iraq May 20, 2004
Leahy Seeks Gonzales Memo On Geneva Conventions Pushes For Greater Oversight Of Administration May 18, 2004
Leahy Calls On Rumsfeld To Release Reported Guantanamo Bay Videos Of Alleged Abuse May 17, 2004
Remarks Of Senator Patrick Leahy On Iraq Prison Scandal To State Convention Of The Vermont Association Of Trial Lawyers Sheraton, South Burlington May 14, 2004
Leahy Presses For Closer Oversight On Iraqi Prison Abuses May 13, 2004
Senator Patrick Leahy’s Initial Question For Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld At The Hearing By The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee On Defense May 12, 2004
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Senate Floor "Prison Abuses In Iraq: A Failure Of Leadership, Not Of Followership" May 6, 2004
Leahy Slams Administration’s Delay In Informing Congress Of Iraq Prison Incidents May 5, 2004
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Abuse Of Prisoners In U.S. Military Custody May 5, 2004
Leahy Presses For Senate Hearings On Prisoner Abuses In Iraq May 4, 2004
Senate Floor Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Diversion Of Funds For Military Operations In Iraq April 20, 2004
Address Of Senator Patrick Leahy, School For International Training Brattleboro, Vermont: "America’s Credibility: The Underpinning Of An Effective Foreign Policy" April 15, 2004
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy New Audit Raises Questions About Iraq Aid Request April 1, 2004
Comment Of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt., Ranking Democratic member, Senate Judiciary Committee) To The President’s Appointment Of A Commission To Examine Intelligence Failures February 6, 2004
Leahy, Murray, Kennedy And Clinton Ask Secretary Rumsfeld To Nix Plans To Close Commissaries, Base Schools November 11, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Conference Report To The Iraq Supplemental November 4, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Introduction Of The Leahy-Feinstein Durbin-Clinton War Profiteering Prevention Act Of 2003 November 3, 2003
House Nixes Anti-Profiteering Penalties In Iraq Spending Bill October 31, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy In Opposition To The Iraq-Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations Bill October 17, 2003
Floor Debate On The Leahy Amendment To The Iraq Supplemental October 2, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy Upon Introduction Of His Amendment To The Supplemental To Give The Secretary Of State Authority In Iraq October 2, 2003
Senate Panel OKs Leahy Iraq Anti-War Profiteering Amendment September 30, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy Appropriations Committee Hearing Fiscal Year 2004 Supplemental Request For Iraq Reconstruction September 22, 2003
Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy To President Bush's September 7^th Announcement That He Will Request An Additional $87 Billion For Military Operations And Reconstruction Programs In Iraq And Afghanistan This Year September 8, 2003
New U.S. Aid Provisions For Civilian War Victims In Iraq And Afghanistan May 15, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Use Of Cluster Bombs And Landmines In Iraq April 10, 2003
Senate Okays Leahy-Kohl Effort To Boost Humanitarian Aid To The People Of Iraq April 4, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy Appropriations Committee Hearing On FY03 Supplemental Appropriations For The War In Iraq And For Other Purposes March 27, 2003
Comments Of Senator Patrick Leahy About The Beginning Of War With Iraq March 20, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Senate Floor Concerning Iraq: The Countdown To War March 13, 2003
VIDEO of Senator Patrick Leahy Questioning Secretary Of State Colin Powell About Iraq During Senate Subcommittee Hearing March 6, 2003
Opening Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy Commerce, Justice, State Senate Subcommittee Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing With Secretary Of State Colin Powell March 6, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Senate Floor Concerning The Cost Of War With Iraq March 3, 2003
Remarks Of Senator Patrick Leahy At The McConnell Center For Political Leadership March 3, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy Made On The Senate Floor Concerning Iraq February 26, 2003
Comments Of Senator Patrick Leahy On Secretary Powell’s Presentation On Iraq To The UN Security Council February 5, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Senate Floor, On Iraq January 30, 2003
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Montpelier Rally On Iraq January 18, 2003
An Address by Senator Patrick Leahy On The Iraq War Resolution - Senate Floor October 9, 2002
An Address By Senator Patrick Leahy On Iraq - Senate Floor September 26, 2002
VIDEO of FLOOR SPEECH
Comment of Senator Patrick Leahy: Draft War Resolution On Iraq Is Overly Broad And Premature September 20, 2002
Comments Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The President’s Address To The United Nations About Iraq September 12, 2002
Comment of Sen. Patrick Leahy On The Need For Congressional Authorization For Any War With Iraq August 26, 2002

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