1999 Archive

January

• Leahy Lauds President's Pledge To Fight For COPS Program Extension And Police Communications
• Motion of the House Managers For the Appearance of Witnesses at Depositions And to Admit Evidence
• Motion to Dismiss the Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton

February

• Leahy Proposes Boost In Farmland Protection Efforts - Initiative Will Help Fulfill President's Budget Call For Expansion Of Leahy Program
• Vermont And The 2000 Budget: Leahy Puts Analysis Online
• Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Order Affecting Potential Cutoffs Of Home Satellite TV Service
• Public Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On His Decision To Vote No On Both Articles Of Impeachment
• Procedural and Factual Insufficiencies In The The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton - Analysis By Senator Patrick Leahy Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
• Analysis By Senator Patrick Leahy Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee - Page Two
• Senate's Votes on the Articles of Impeachment

March

• ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES: AN AMERICAN PROBLEM
• Chief Sponsor, Medical Information Privacy And Security Act
• CONGRESS FACES AUGUST DEADLINE TO TACKLE THE MEDICAL PRIVACY PROBLEM
• Medical Information Privacy and Security Act (MIPSA
• S. 673 "The Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1999
• Vermont Internet Commerce Research Project Final Report

April

• Vermont's `Patnership' (Pat Barr & Pat Leahy) Nears BillionDollar Milestone In Securing PentagonFunded Breast Cancer Research
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services New Recommendations For A Mercury Toxicity Profile
• INTRODUCTION OF THE "ELECTRONIC RIGHTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY" OR "ERIGHTS" ACT
• Hearing on "Privacy in the Digital Age:Discussion of Issues Surrounding the Internet
• S.J.Res. 14 (Flag) Markup Subcommittee On The Constitution
• U.S. Commerce Department's New Internet Patent and Trademarks Database - April 22, 1999
• Public Safety Medal of Valor Act, S.39
• Senate's Continuing Failure to Act on Judicial and Other Nominations
• U.S. Commerce Department's New Internet Patent and Trademarks Database - April 26, 1999
• Confidentiality Of Health Care Information Before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
• Kosovo

May

• Democratic Manager's Closing Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy In Support Of S.254, The "Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act
• Summary of Hatch-Leahy Managers' Amendment
• A $1 Billion Landmark In Fighting Breast Cancer: Leahy And Allies Win Key Step For Another $175 Million

June

• Leahy, Hatch and Biden Propose Bill To Boost Security On Rail Lines
• Author of S. 751, the "Seniors Safety Act of 1999
• Senate Passes Amendment On East Timor Ballot Violence
• Floor Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy: KOSOVO'S MINEFIELDS
• Trinity College Nets $150,000 SBA Grant To Launch Vermont Women's Business Center
• Barre-Built High-Speed Rail Cars Get Sneak Preview In Nation's Capital
• Floor Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy: In Support Of Dodd-Leahy Amendment Lift Travel Restrictions To Cuba

July

• Leahy Offers Bipartisan Bill To Help States Fight Computer Crime......‘Taking a byte out of cyber crime'
• Senate Juidicary Committee Hearong on Broadband: Competition and Consumer Choice in High-Speed Internet Services and Technologies
• New Leahy Bill Enhances Federal Efforts To Track Down And Deport War Criminals
• Vice President Gore's Announcement Of A New AIDS In Africa Initiative
• Maintaining our Working Landscape Through the Farmland Protection Program, Senate Committee On Agriculture, Nutrition And Forestry Hearing
• Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee On Criminal Justice Oversight Hearing Ono Civil Asset Forfeiture
• Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On "Cybersquatting And Consumer Protection: Ensuring Domain Name Integrity
• To Combat Drunk Driving And Underage Drinking, Leahy Helps Secure $300,000 Grant For New Roving BATmobiles
• Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing On "Consolidation and anti-trust issues in agricultural business
• Introduction of the "Domain Name Piracy Prevention Act of 1999
• Key Senate Panel Approves Leahy Legislation To Crack Down On Web Site Address Thieves

August

• IBM Vermonters Chat With Senator Patrick Leahy
• Deerfield Valley Transit Association Wins $496,000 Grant For New Public Buses, With Help From Leahy
• The Response Of Gary DeGasta, White River Junction Veterans Hospital Director, To Report By Deloitte Consulting Group
• Senate Approves Leahy Bill To Crack Down On Web Site Address Thieves
• Floor Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy In Support Of The Jeffords-Leahy Milk Marketing Order Reform Amendment To FY2000 Agriculture Appropriations Bill
• Leahy $250,000 Grant For Downtown Renovation In Wells River Wins Final Approval
• Leahy: New Grant At Granville Will Help Restore White River Habitat For Trout And Atlantic Salmon (And Canoes
• President Signs Bill That Includes $8.6 Million For New ‘Armory Of The Future' At Norwich U.
• Vermont Garners $513,375 Grant In Latest Installment Of Federal Funds To Computerize State's Criminal History Records.....Money Will Help State Tap Into New Electronic FBI Fingerprint ID Dat

September

• To Video Evidence Secured From The FBI In The Waco Case
• Turmoil In East Timor
• SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, HEARING ON "HATE CRIMES AND THE INTERNET
• Senate Floor Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On Fourth Anniversary Of The Detainment Of Ngawang Choephel By Chinese Authorities
• At Rally For Dairy Compact Legislation On Capitol Hill Today
• Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On The Administration's Announcement Of Relaxation Of Export Controls On Encryption Technology
• From News Conference Today At Which The U.S. Department Of Transportation Announced That jetBlue Airways Has Been Granted Rights To Fly Into And Out Of New England
• Cash Balance Pension Plans Before The Senate Committee On Health, Education, Labor And Pensions
• Central Vermont Program That Helps Low-Income Vermonters Save For Education Or New Home Wins Federal Grant
• The President's Veto Of The Republicans' $792 Billion Tax Bill
• Shelburne Wood Shop Wins New Federal Grant To Further Innovative Efforts To Help Increase Value Of Vermont Wood Products....Project Should Boost Vermont's Rural Timber-Dependent Communities
• Opening Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee, Co-Author Of S. 247, “Satellite Home Viewer Improvements Act”
• Leahy Secures $1.3 Million To Repair Burlington Breakwater
• Northeast Kingdom Economic Development Organization Wins $315,000 Federal Grant
• INTERNATIONAL INTERNET TAX FREEDOM

October

• Introduction Of Pension Reduction Disclosure Act of 1999
• Senators Asks FDA For Comprehensive Review And Assessment f Existing Measures To Protect Consumers From Mercury
• U.S. Senate Confirms Vermont Police Veteran As State's New U.S. Marshal
• Floor Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Congressional Record Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee: IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE RONNIE WHITE VOTE
• REMOVAL OF"HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT" FROM COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE APPROPRIATIONS BILL
• Leahy Secures $350,000 For Proposed Robert H. Gibson River Garden In Downtown Brattleboro
• Low Vaccination Rates In Poorest Nations Needlessly Claim Millions Of Lives, Says GAO
• Signed Into Law By President - 1.3 Million Sought By Leahy For New Wastewater Treatment Plant, In Cabot
• Leahy And His Allies This Week Cross $1 Billion Milestone In Fighting Breast Cancer

November

• Leahy Secures $750,000 In Budget Bill To Help Ease Affordable Housing Crisis In Chittenden County
• New Leahy Bill Would Shift NewFederal Buildings AWAY FROM Undeveloped Land And TO Established Central Business Districts
• Chinese Government Provides First Substantive – But Sketchy – Information On Ngawang Choephel To Vermont Delegation
• Curbing Harmful Run-Off Into Conn. River Gets $250,000 Boost By Leahy
• Congressional Negotiators Reach Final Agreement On Satellite Television Overhaul
• SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, ON THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION RESOLUTION EXECUTIVE BUSINESS MEETING
• Home TV Dish Owners Threatened With `The Mother Of All Service Cutoffs' By New Year's Day, Unless Senate Acts
• Hydro-Quebec Amendment To The Bankruptcy Bill
• Congress Okays Hatch-Leahy Bill To Crack Down On Web Site Address Thieves
• FINAL AGREEMENT ON HOME SATELLITE BILL REACHED THURSDAY MORNING -- FINAL STUMBLING BLOCKS CLEARED
• Senate Judiciary Committee, On The Imminent Enactment Of Three Technology Bills Produced By The Hatch-Leahy Partnership
• Congress Passes, President To Sign Leahy's Satellite Home Viewer Act
• Leahy Unveils New $4 Million Law Enforcement Communications Initiative For Vermont
• Leahy Hails Congress's ‘No Internet Tariffs'Message On Eve Of WTO Summit In Seattle
• Leahy Carves Out $3 Million For Land Conservation In Green Mountain National Forest
• S. 1949 "The Clean Power Plant and Modernization Act of 1999

December

No releases for this month.