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Patrick Leahy on retiring from a divided Senate

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Patrick Leahy on retiring from a divided Senate – CBS News


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He was an idealistic 34-year-old prosecutor from Vermont who came to Washington in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Now, after eight terms in Congress, Senator Patrick Leahy is retiring, at a time when Congress, he says, is more bitterly divided than ever. The fourth-longest serving senator in U.S. history – his tenure bookended by Nixon’s political coverup and Trump’s insurrection – talks with correspondent Robert Costa about the role of the Senate and the dangers of partisanship.

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