Patrick Leahy: Vermont sets an example for Congress

Editor’s note: This is Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy’s address on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.
Yesterday, Vermont set an example for the Congress. A Democratically controlled Legislature and a Republican governor, in a rural state with a strong gun-owning tradition and few gun laws, worked together to debate, forge and enact meaningful, commonsense gun safety laws.
Yesterday Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, signed into law three bills that expand background checks, raise the age t