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The Senate passed a bill to help sick veterans. Then 25 Republicans reversed course

Veterans groups, family members, longtime advocate Jon Stewart and others gathered outside the Capitol after the vote to voice their outrage.

Senator Pat Leahy will not run again

Senator Pat Leahy will not run again

Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and the chamber’s longest-serving member is one of a few senators who were decent toward Vietnam.

Afghanistan | Vietnam Redux

Afghanistan | Vietnam Redux

Perhaps policymakers would avoid such folly, such willful blindness to reality, such hubris, such wishful thinking in the future. Fat chance.