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Pat Leahy, Senate Approps chairman who helped shape US ag policy, announces retirement

11/15/21 11:20 AM By Spencer Chase and Philip Brasher
KEYWORDS 1996 farm bill dairy Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP Judiciary Committee National Organic Program organic agriculture Patrick Leahy Senate Agriculture Committee Senate Appropriations Committee Vermont
Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, a longtime member and former chair of the Senate Ag Committee who took a special interest in the nation’s dairy and organic policy, plans to retire at the end of his current term.
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