Leahy: Senate appropriations process ‘a dose of sanity’

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. File photo by Cory Dawson
The U.S. Senate advanced its first appropriations bills for the next fiscal year Monday evening with strong bipartisan support.
The package of three spending bills was the first measure to come to the Senate floor since Sens. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., brokered a deal to take a bipartisan approach to setting federal spending levels.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly he