OVERNIGHT TECH: Lawmakers await Senate NSA bill

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is close to an agreement with Obama administration on how to rein in government surveillance. Leahy said on Tuesday that he is impressed with the administration's efforts to work towards a ...

Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and John Cornyn of Texas, leaders of the Judiciary Committee, have long shown an admirable commitment to open government, and their recent bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act is winning a ton of praise. Some ...

L (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The office of Sen. Patrick S. Leahy, D-Vt., issued the following statement: Last week, I chaired a field hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Burlington, Vermont, on ...

Attempts by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to pass a bill that would rein in the activities of non-practicing entities—patent trolls—have been thwarted. Senator Leahy, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, had introduced a patent reform bill ...

. In an article published by the Burlington Free Press , Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for forcing him to drop a popular patent reform bill designed to halt the abusive activities carried out by ...

O Obama announced the deployment of additional forces in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), the president pro tempore of the Senate. Obama said the additional forces will reinforce security at the U.S.

Dianne Feinstein gets an "F." So does John Boehner. Patrick Leahy, Ron Wyden, and Justin Amash each earned an "A." At least that's according to a new congressional scorecard from privacy and civil-liberties groups measuring how lawmakers stand on ...

Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would enact some of the most significant changes to the Freedom of Information Act in four decades, our colleague Josh Gerstein reports: "[The ...

Senate Passes Law Making Cell Unlocking Legal Again Last month Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced the " Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act (pdf), which aims to make unlocking one's cell phone ...