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Leahy on the Biden budget and the end of the Budget Control Act

Fri, 05/28/2021 - 4:31am tim by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) The Budget Control Act of 2011 expires this year, and that is a good thing. This law led to a decade of underfunding our domestic priorities, from which it will take years to recover.  Right now, in communities across the country, our infrastructure is crumbling, millions of Americans cannot access federal programs for which they qualify, and we are falling behind in investing in science, research, and development on the global economic stage. All of this because the Budget Control Act set artificial and unrealistically low caps on discretionary spending, and it inflicted arbitrary, across-the-board spending cuts known as “sequestration.” 

Memorial Day message from Senator Patrick Leahy | Vermont Business Magazine

by Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)  For all of us, Memorial Day is the ‘kick off’ of summer.  Especially after the struggles we all have faced during the last year, this is a particularly welcome and highly anticipated day to gather with family and friends, have cookouts, shake off a long winter and Mud Season, and get on with our summer activities.  The root of the word memorial is memory.  My hope is that we all will also pause to remember that the true spirit of this day is to remember that we are able to come together, as families and friends, because of the sacrifices of those who served and who gave their lives in our armed forces.

Leahy renews push for the Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act | Vermont Business Magazine

Would Bring ATF Into The 21 st Century Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Representative Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ-09) Tuesday reintroduced the Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2021, their bill to modernize the capabilities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to trace crime guns. After a firearm associated with a crime is discovered somewhere in the United States, federal, state or local law enforcement officials contact ATF, which then must recreate the chain of custody of the firearm.  But ATF is prohibited by law from electronically searching millions of gun sales records already in its possession.  The absurd result is that ATF must comb through mountains of paper records manually, an extremely laborious process that delays timely investigations and drains law enforcement resources.  Their legislation would update this process from the age of paper records to the age of electronic records, to enable electronic

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