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WASHINGTON (TUESDAY, Oct. 27, 2015) -- As the dean of the Senate (its most senior member) Vermont’s U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D) Tuesday morning passed a U.S. Senate milestone when he cast his 15,000th vote. Only five senators in history have cast more votes. The vote occurred during a series of votes late this morning during Senate debate on the cybersecurity bill. According to the nonpartisan website GovTrack, Leahy has sponsored more bipartisan bills than any other current member of this Senate: Sixty-one percent of his bills have had both Democratic and Republican cosponsors, reflecting his longtime MO of building coalitions and getting things done, helping to make him one of the Senate’s most effective legislators. In the previous Congress he was one of the youngest senators in recent times to rise to the level of President Pro Tem.