1998 Archive

January

• Cuban Women and Humanitarian Relief Act, The
• Judicial Vacancies
• Reaction of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee,To Chief Justice Rehnquist’s Year-End Report On The Federal Judiciary

February

• Bennington Slated For New Veterans Clinic
• Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources Hearing On Medical Information Privacy Legislation
• Vermont Olympians
• VIOLENCE IN ALGERIA

March

• Disaster Spending Bill Clears Senate; Jeffords and Leahy Help Improve Administration’s Initial Proposal
• Hearing of the Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information "Critical Infrastructure Protection: Toward a New Policy Directive
• Hearing On "Privacy In The Digital Age: Encryption And Mandatory Access" Subcommittee On Constitution, Federalism, And Property Rights
• Lake Champlain And The Sea Grant Program
• Leahy Introduces First Legislation To Chart Future System For Registering Internet Domain Names
• Leahy To Offer Bill Targeting Telcos’ Pay Phone Windfalls
• Market Power and Structural Change in the Software Industry
• NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY HEARING
• News Announcement From The Vermont Congressional Delegation: Vermont Receives $113,000 To Help Ice-Damaged Forests
• Report By Second Harvest: "Hunger: The Faces and Facts
• S. 1173 - The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1998
• Senate Panel Clears $4.5 M. Amendment To Aid Storm-Hit N.E. Maple Growers
• Statement In Public Meeting On Tower Sitings In Vermont With FCC Chairman Kennard

April

• Congressional Watchdog Agency Issues Dairy Pricing Report: Farm-To-Retail Price Spread Continues To Widen
• Hearing on the Nomination of James K. Robinson To Be Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
• Letter to Secretary of Agriculture: RE:Docket Number TMD94002; 62 Fed. Reg. December 16, 1997
• Letter to Secretary of Agriculture: RE:Docket Number: TMD94002; Proposed National Organic Program
• MERCURY POLLUTION: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
• Money Laundering Enforcement Act" and "The Combating Drugs in Prisons Act
• MURDER OF BISHOP JUAN JOSE GERARDI
• PETITION TO SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE DAN GLICKMAN
• Reaction Of Senator Patrick Leahy, (Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee), To House Commerce Committee Disclosure of 39,000 Tobacco Industry Documents
• S.1360, the Border Improvement and Immigration Act of 1998
• Seeking Justice In Cambodia: Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee
• Spoke on the Senate floor about Mr. Choephel
• Statement in Support of S.1360, the Border Improvement and Immigration Act of 1998

May

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center 1998 Koop Lecture Series
• Introduction Of The E-PRIVACY Act
• Judicial Nominations
• Leahy And Jeffords Announce $3 million Grant For Northeast Kingdom Call Center In Newport
• NBCC HONORS SENATORS AT CONGRESSIONAL BREAKFAST
• No Immunity For The Tobacco Industry - Statement On The Gregg-Leahy Amendment
• Remarks at Vermont Breast Cancer Conference Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center Burlington, Vermont
• The Work of the Senate
• U.S. Agriculture Exports

June

• Delays in Senate Action on Judicial Nominations
• HEARING ON "MERGERS AND CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION IN THE NEW ECONOMY
• Judiciary Committee Hearing on "Drug Abuse Among our Children: A Growing National Crisis
• Leahy Provisions In Agriculture Research Bill Expected To Boost UVM and Other VT Colleges; Food Stamps For Some Legal Aliens Also Restored
• NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN AUTHORIZATION ACT
• New Leahy Bill Raises The Bar For Telco Mergers
• News From Vermont's Senate Delegation: Reaction of Vermont Senators Patrick Leahy and Jim Jeffords To "Coalition for Fair Milk Prices" Analysis Of Regional Dairy Compacts
• Onerous Border Crossing Provisions Excised In Appropriations Bill
• Passage of the Leahy-Ashcroft Amendment to S. 1609
• Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee, To The Killing Of The Tobacco Bill
• Senate Committee Carves Out $135 Million Targeting Breast Cancer; Minimum Floor Guarantees Research Funds In Defense Spending Bill
• Senate Passage of Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, S. 1379
• Statement on the Signing of the Bulletproof Vests Partnership Grant Act
• U.S. Special Forces Training
• Vermonters On Hand As President Signs Bill For Bulletproof Vests For Cops
• Vermont's `Living Machine' Project Gets New Life Under Supreme Court Decision Striking Down LineItem Veto

July

• Child Custody Protection Bill
• Judicial Nominations
• KYL-LEAHY SUBSTITUTE TO S. 512, "THE IDENTITY THEFT AND ASSUMPTION DETERRENCE ACT OF 1998"
• Senate Sends IRS Reform Bill To President's Desk . . . bill includes Leahy Internet reforms
• Special To The St. Albans Messenger Guest Column by Senator Patrick Leahy: A New Season Of Assaults On The Compact

August

September

• Leahy Uses Defense Bill To Advance Breast Cancer Research; Brings SixYear Total Won By Leahy and Allies to $737.5 Million

October

November

• Federal Watchdog Agency Issues Second Dairy Pricing Report: Minimal Relationship Between Farm and Retail Prices

December