Joe Lieberman on Huffington Post

Former Wrestling Exec Linda McMahon Says Rival Should Drop Out For GOP Unity

2012-05-21T14:51:50Z

Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon says her Republican rival, former congressman Chris Shays, should quit the race so that the GOP can unify aga...

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Senate Sets Hearing On Secret Service Scandal

2012-05-13T13:47:04Z

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over homeland security says he's scheduled a hearing for May 23 to review the Sec...

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Rand Paul's Anti-Iran War Amendment

2012-05-09T10:29:41Z

WASHINGTON -- Presidents of both parties, over the past several decades, have shown a willingness to interpret Senate resolutions in the broadest imag...

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Tipsters Rush Forward In Wake Of Secret Service Scandal

2012-04-24T16:28:48Z

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate homeland security committee says whistleblowers are calling in tips about the Secret Service in the wake...

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Congress Expanding Secret Service Investigation

2012-04-23T08:44:43Z

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service prostitution scandal grew Monday to include a 12th member of the U.S. military as the Pentagon suspended the sec...

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Joe Lieberman Won't Endorse In Presidential Race

2012-04-22T10:12:32Z

WASHINGTON -- Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman won't say whom he's supporting in November.

"I'm going to try to stay out...

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Robert Naiman: Senator Rand Paul Calls the Question on War with Iran

2012-03-28T15:17:55Z

Before we have a war with Iran, shouldn't the Senate and the House have at least one debate and vote on it? Isn't that what the Constitution demands?

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Lieberman, McCain Suspicious Of Obama's Open Mic Remark

2012-03-28T13:44:34Z

WASHINGTON -- Hawkish independent Sen. Joe Lieberman added his voice on Wednesday to criticism of President Barack Obama's open mic gaffe promising Ru...

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Lee Fang: Lieberman Parties With Lobbyists Hours Before Passing Watered-Down Ethics Reform

2012-03-23T15:25:15Z

Strong improvements to the bill, from both Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), were blocked. The weakened STOCK Act, which President Obama says he will sign, does little to address any real corruption in Congress.

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Jamal Abdi: Which Side's Hardliners Will Sabotage US-Iran Diplomacy? Enter Romney and Lieberman

2012-03-09T17:51:32Z

We're at a rare moment in which both the United States and Iran have unclenched their fists and appear ready for real talks. But we've seen how opportunities have been sabotaged in the past by political opportunism, ultimatums and intransigence from factions on each side.

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HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now : More War? U.S. in Iran, Syria, Afghanistan

2012-03-04T21:30:54Z

Huffington-Matalin debate U.S. military policy in Iran, Syria and Afghanistan after a decade of costly failures. Do war whoops resemble pre-Vietnam, pre-Iraq? And did St. Rick jump the shark by being so stridently anti-contraception and college?

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James Zogby: Netanyahu Visits a Different Washington, He Hopes

2012-03-03T10:45:40Z

And so it is that the tables appear to have been turned in the Washington that will greet the Israeli leader. He will not be pressured to do what he has long been loathe to do -- address Palestinian rights.

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Robert Naiman: Does AIPAC Want War? Lieberman "Capability" Red Line May Tip AIPAC's Hand

2012-02-17T15:50:00Z

Sponsors of the Lieberman resolution deny that it is an "authorization for military force," and in a legal, technical sense, they are absolutely correct: it is not a legal authorization for military force. But it is an attempt to enact a political authorization for military force.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - and a Free-Market "Death Panel"

2012-02-17T01:10:59Z

Burr and Coburn want you to believe that they can raise the Medicare eligibility age, make you pay more in premiums, turn your health care over to the same insurers that are bankrupting you before you're sixty-five -- and that somehow you'll save money!

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Robert Naiman: Can Joe Lieberman Block Diplomacy With Iran That Would Prevent War?

2012-02-09T15:47:00Z

If the reports are accurate, then what Lieberman and Graham seek to do is block the president from pursuing a goal that knowledgeable American and European officials say is the "most attainable outcome."

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Senate Passes Bill To Ban Lawmaker Insider Trading

2012-02-02T18:39:00Z

WASHINGTON -- Insider trading by members of Congress, their top staff and executive branch officials would be banned by legislation that passed the Se...

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Group Left High And Dry

2012-01-13T14:06:00Z

A new group that hopes to tap into a rising appetite for a third-party presidential challenger has discovered that $30 million in secret cash can buy ...

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Sam Sommers: Going With Your Gut in the Voting Booth

2012-01-11T12:49:51Z

No, this is not another blog post about the benefits (or costs) to being beautiful, though attractiveness certainly is a characteristic that can impact an election. Just ask Richard Nixon.
But I'm not talking about physical attractiveness per se.

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Coleen Rowley: VIPS Memo To Obama: Avoid Another Long War

2012-01-05T09:08:45Z

Inasmuch as American politicians have failed miserably in the last decade on the issue of war, it would behoove concerned citizens to bring the facts in our memo to the attention of their respective congresspersons, as well as the president.

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Robert Naiman: 300 Anti-War Voters Can Win the Iowa Referendum Against War With Iran

2012-01-02T13:01:45Z

This is how I see the Iowa caucus: as a referendum against the campaign for war with Iran. We have a unique opportunity Tuesday in Iowa to defeat the warmongers.

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Hedge-Fund Titans Got Inside Political Tips

2011-12-21T01:36:35Z

I'm surprised this Wall Street Journal story, detailing how hedge funds manage to obtain profitable inside information, hasn’t gotten more attention...

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Is Booze The Key To Saving The Postal Service?

2011-12-13T16:07:55Z

The eagle is struggling to fly.

Growing financial grief has placed the U.S. Postal Service in a difficult bind. As it plans to close hundreds of m...

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Joe Lieberman To Newt Gingrich: Get Real

2011-12-13T10:59:00Z

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) rejected Newt Gingrich's controversial comment last week that the Palestinians are an "invented" people, sa...

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'We Never Got An Answer To Our Question'

2011-12-06T19:19:00Z

WASHINGTON -- About a dozen Occupy protesters who drove through the night from Connecticut and spent hours camped out in front of Sen. Joe Lieberman's...

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Senators Set To Slash Benefits For Disabled Civil Servants

2011-11-10T09:36:08Z

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking to cut benefits for federal workers disabled on the job, a budget-trimming move that critics warn ...

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