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Morning Digest: Vermont's Patrick Leahy, the most senior senator, declines to seek a ninth term

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James …

Tue Nov 16, 2021

The Senate's longest-serving member will not seek re-election in deep-blue Vermont

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is the chamber’s longest-serving sitting member from either party, announced Monday that he would not seek a ninth term in 2022. While Leahy is famously the …

Mon Nov 15, 2021

Schumer, Menendez lead senators in slamming 'cruel treatment' and 'summary deportations' of Haitians

A letter from a coalition of senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Menendez has become the latest condemnation of the Biden administration’s …

Tue Oct 12, 2021

The Supreme Court and the filibuster both have to change if our democracy is going to be saved

Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell on Tuesday stood on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, to formally introduce the John …

Thu Aug 19, 2021