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| Term Start | Term End | Role | State | Party |
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| 2007 | 2012 | Senator | CT | Independent |
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Committee Membership
- Senate Armed Services
- Senate Environment and Public Works
- Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety
- Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- Disaster Recovery (Ad Hoc)
- Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
- Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia
- State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration (Ad Hoc)
- Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Most Recent Sponsored Bills
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Recent Voting History
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H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 On Passage of the Bill (H. R. 1424 As Amended ) |
Aye October 01, 2008 |
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H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 On the Amendment (Dodd Amdt. No. 5685 ) |
Aye October 01, 2008 |
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H.R.7081 United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 7081 ) |
Aye October 01, 2008 |
Voting Trends Analysis
- Most often votes with: Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI]
- Least often votes with: Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
- Abstains: 3%
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Joseph Lieberman in the News
October 10, 2008 Gail Collins: Guilty by association
...including aggravated battery, bail jumping, the Days of Rage and unreadable political tracts. McCain's favorite supporter, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, recently called the Obama-Ayers connection "fair game." This reminded me that Lieberman once came to a part
Source: Sacramento Bee
October 09, 2008 New Joe Conason for 10/09/2008
...someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the McCain surrogate from Connecticut, assures us that this is "all fair game," a statement that would be s
Source: Creators Syndicate
October 09, 2008 Honor Won and Lost
...who sees America as ‘imperfect enough’ to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.” Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the McCain surrogate from Connecticut, assures us that this is “all fair game,” a statement that would b
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October 10, 2008 The New Yorker Endorsement of Obama
With John Kerry, he co-sponsored a bill raising auto-fuel efficiency standards and, with Joseph Lieberman, a cap-and-trade regime on carbon emissions. He was one of a minority of Republicans opposed to unlimited drilling for oil and gas ...
Source: Jack & Jill Politics
October 10, 2008 quentincoyote @ 2008-10-10T10:18:00
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the McCain surrogate from Connecticut, assures us that this is âall fair game,â a statement that would be surprising if it were not uttered by him. He was happy to accept Obamaâs support when his own reelection ...
Source: Team Yote!
October 09, 2008 More on Bill Ayers and Guilt by Association
McCainâs favorite supporter, Senator Joseph Lieberman, recently called the Obama-Ayers connection âfair game.â This reminded me that Lieberman once came to a party at my house. It was years ago, when he was still a Connecticut state ...
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On September 15, 2008 Joseph Lieberman was featured on the homepage of OpenCongress:
Joe Lieberman (I-CT) scored a victory recently in his effort to rid the internet of content that supports terrorism. On September 11th, Google updated their community guidelines for YouTube to bar videos that could potentially incite violence, contain hate speech, or depict gratuitous violence. “YouTube was being used by Islamist terrorist organizations to recruit and train followers via the Internet and to incite terrorist attacks around the world, including right here in the United States, and Google should be commended for recognizing that,” Lieberman said in a press release.
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Former FDIC Employee Blows Whistle On FDIC Chairman Donald E. Powell
Temple Hills, MD (BlackNews.com) - FDIC Whistleblower Yolanda Gibson-Michaels says the FDIC Chairman Donald E. Powell should not be in charge of lucrative contracts or oversee Katrina rebuilding for the Gulf region or any other region in the United States. She says since his indoctrination August, 2001, the FDIC Chairman has tarnished the reputation at FDIC. She's requested an immediate non-partisan independent audit and investigation.
Gibson-Michaels say the appointment of FDIC Chairman to "Safeguard against improprieties in awarding lucrative government contracts..." is ludicrous! She says the Chairman's safeguard is like unto to a Wolf watching over Sheep! She reported FDIC's receivership fraud, bank fraud, inside trading, and money laundering impropriety.
She says FDIC Chairman signed as signatory 2002 on the merger of Wells Fargo investments under the guise of a non-compete agreement. Wells Fargo, Wachovia, Northwest formerly Norwest was approved by FDIC Chairman Donald Powell. His title is used interchangeably as the Board of Director, Chairman of the Board, the Company and the Bank. She reports that the "the Company" is a non-existent shell company. She quotes the Chairman statement in the 2002 board meeting, which reads, in part, that:
"2002 and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. TheBoard of Directors has nominated William H. Attebury, Danny H. Conklin, Wales H. Madden, Jr., Jay O'Brien, and Donald E. Powell, who are presently the directors of the Company, for election as directors."
She reports that the FDIC Chairman acknowledged his history of contract impropriety within a February 5, 2005, edition of the Arkansas Traveler.
"Powell said he had tried to find ways out of contracts, tried only to remain true to the letter of the law and given money to political candidates who supported his industry but whom he would not personally vote for..."
Gibson-Michaels say the industry the Chairman refers to is his Nubank Investment Center located at www.NUBANK.com. The FDIC Chairman is the Director of Nubank, insured by FDIC; and the Chairman of FDIC. She reports that her disclosures are substantiated within an inclusive, detailed oriented 539 page disclosure report available to the general public at the U.S. Library of Congress.
Gibson-Michaels have asserted her rights under the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) bounty program. She will donate a percentage of proceeds collected against FDIC's Chairman's Wells Fargo, Tejas, Northwest, Enron, Halliburton, Acordia, California Bank and other ill-gotten investments.
She reported FDIC's Division of Finance Director (DOF) as the signatory to former Enron's corrupt official Kenneth Lay. A copy of protected disclosures were provided to Henry Waxman, John Kerry, Senator Edward Kennedy, Congressman Albert Wynn, Nancy Pelosi, Senator John Ensign, Barbara Boxer, Senator Sarbanes, Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Attorneys, and Law enforcement agencies.
FDIC's 3-trillion dollar budget, will benefit poor, sick, elderly, homeless, Autistic children (as her youngest son is severely autistic with a seizure disorder), Hurricane Katrina victims, victims of Wells Fargo Predatory lending, and social programs.
Gibson-Michaels vows to fight against money and greed which supercedes human compassion, morals, values, and ethics. She's requesting donations for law suit funding in her fight against FRAUD, DECEPTION, IMPROPRIETY, AND CORRUPTION.
Gibson-Michaels says she will also hold FDIC Chairman and other corrupt officials accountable for any and all threats, assaults, physical, verbal or harm to her family or personal affects; to and including pets and goldfish.
She says she will never commit suicide or attempt suicide. She will hold FDIC accountable for train, automobile and so-called plane crashes.
She concluded that her 539 page disclosure report mirrors author John Perkins true ordeal (book) entitled, Confessions of an Economic Hitt Man. She reports that she and other whistleblowers are Caught in a Web of Bureaucracy created by Economic Hitt Men.
How long do we have to wait for S.2544???????????????
Quit kissing up to the Republicans! John won't be the next President! He is a very good man but WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT ALLOW 3rd TERM FOR John Bush!
IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH! A TRAITOR! A LIAR! A THEIF! PUT HIM IN THE STREET! EVERYONE SPEAK OUT! DON'T JUST WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN. GET UP AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!
These are the comments of Ted Kennedy who introduced EMERGENCY bill 2544 which was cosponsored by Joe Liebermann.
NOTHING has been done on it since JANUARY!!!!! ??????
Sen. Edward Kennedy [D-MA]: [Introducing S. 2544] Mr. President, it is clear that our economy is going from bad to worse. Every day the headlines bring more bad news. Fuel prices are going through the roof. Millions of families are at risk of losing their homes. Bankruptcies have risen by 40 percent in the last year alone.
Most alarming, we are seeing a drastic rise in the number of Americans out of work. In December, half a million more Americans were unemployed than the month before. Today nearly 8 million Americans are looking for a job and can't find one. The national unemployment rate has shot up to 5 percent--the biggest increase since the last recession. Experts say this number will rise well above 6 percent in 2009. Vulnerable parts of our population have been hit even harder--last month, 9 percent of African-American workers were unemployed, up sharply from 8.4 percent in November. Latino workers now have an unemployment rate of 6 percent.
What's more, we are seeing a large number of out-of-work Americans who still can't find a new job months later. Nearly one out of five Americans who is looking for work has been out of a job for over 6 months--compared with roughly one out of ten in 2001, before the last recession. With only 4 million job openings and nearly 8 million unemployed Americans, there are two workers for every job. As unemployment rises, there will be even more workers competing for each job. As highlighted in yesterday's front-page article in the Washington Post, this problem is affecting workers across our economy--even those with college educations and years of experience can't find work.
These aren't just statistics. These numbers are coworkers, our relatives, our neighbors. For each and every one of those families, a pink slip can spell economic disaster.
Losing a job isn't just losing a paycheck--it can mean losing the results of years of hard work and sacrifice.
For too many families, losing a job means losing health insurance. Without insurance, an unexpected hospital stay--from a broken leg or a cancer diagnosis--means certain financial disaster. Mr. President, 77 percent of middle class Americans do not have enough assets to pay essential expenses for 3 months. Without a paycheck, the rising price of daily necessities--housing, gasoline, and even groceries--becomes impossible to afford.
Our unemployment insurance program is intended to help workers weather a job loss. Workers pay into the program throughout their careers. If they lose their jobs, they can collect a benefit while they look for work. The amounts are modest--typically less than half of a worker's regular wages--but they help families to pay their rent, keep the house warm, and put food on the table.
In good economic times, such benefits are enough to tide workers and their families over for the few weeks it takes to find a job. But these are not good times. It is taking longer and longer for unemployed Americans to find new work. Over 1.3 million Americans have been looking for a job for 6 months or more. As a result, an increasing number of workers have not found a new job by the time their unemployment benefits run out. Over the past year, over 2.6 million Americans--or 35 percent of all unemployed workers--have exhausted their unemployment benefits. Unless we respond soon, these and other families will be left in the cold.
So we must act, and we must act now, to help these workers before financial disaster strikes. That is why I am introducing legislation today to give workers the help they need and have earned. The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act will ensure that Americans who keep looking for work but can't find a job after 6 months will be eligible for up to 20 weeks of additional benefits. In very high-unemployment States, workers could also receive up to 13 more weeks of benefits. Because out-of-work families are facing skyrocketing costs of gas, home heating, food, and housing, long-term unemployed workers will temporarily receive $50 extra each week to help pay their bills.
Providing this extension is a matter of fairness. We owe it to all workers who have lost their jobs in this struggling economy to provide help while they look for new jobs. Out-of-work Americans have worked hard all their lives. They have paid into the unemployment insurance system with the promise they would receive its protection when our economy is in crisis. Part of the American Dream is the opportunity to work hard, provide for your family, put your children through school, and save for retirement. When the economy isn't working the way it should and the jobs simply aren't there, we must stick together. We must take care of those who can't find a job.
But there's another major reason to act. Economists agree that extending unemployment benefits is a powerful, cost-effective way to deliver a boost to the economy. The extension of benefits puts money into the hands of those who need assistance the most and are most likely to spend it immediately on basic essentials. This means money is flowing immediately to local businesses, which will in turn provide a further economic boost.
Indeed, according to a report by Mark Zandi of Moody's, each dollar invested in benefits to out-of-work Americans leads to a $1.73 increase in growth--the most of any measure tested. That compares with only pennies on the dollar for cuts in income tax rates or cuts in taxes on investments.
The Congressional Budget Office agrees. Its report last week on short-term economic stimulus found that extending unemployment benefits is among the most cost-effective, potent, temporary steps that Congress can take to jump-start our economy.
This is a tried and true approach to helping working families in economic downturns. In each recession since the late 1950s, Congress has extended unemployment benefits to those who have exhausted their benefits and can't find work. It has often done so by overwhelming, bipartisan votes. Layoffs don't discriminate by party.
Extending unemployment benefits is the right thing to do for the economy and the fair thing to do for workers. I urge my colleagues to join me in helping out-of-work Americans and putting our economy back on track.
PLEASE PASS THIS AS A TRIBUTE TO SENATOR KENNEDY WHO HAS WORKED FOR AMERICAN WORKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELP US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been out of work since November 2007. My unemployment benefits have run out. My money has run out. I unable to obtain employment and need more time to continue my search for employment. I am at risk of losing my car. Gas prices continue to rise daily. I am highly skilled in my field. My State Rhode Island is one of the hardest hit with unemployment. I am 53 old and have worked hard all my life. I've paid taxes all my life, and this is how my country is treating me. Unbelievable. The Senate, House and President continue to play games as peoples life's are put in jeopardy. Totally disgusting. So all the extra time that I am not spending on looking for employment, I will dedicate to making sure any politician that votes nay on not extending unemployment insurance will be out of a job their next term by informing the public of their decision in every forum available. I will encourage others to do so as well. It is time in this country for the people to take control of their government again and take it out of the hands of the uninformed, out of touch, uncompassionate, ignorant, greedy, self absorbed fools that are the true terrorists ruining this country. Pass a fxxkxxg bill extending unemployment benefits or you will be out of a fxxkxxg job!!!!!!!!!
Don't play politics with the American people anymore and pass HR5749 veto proof next week. People before politics. Please many need it!!!
We are unemployed and most of us has worked hard all of our lives. We need some help here with the unemployment Insurance extensions. for God's Sake there are people's lives at stake here.
Senator Lieberman, there are allot of people's lives at stake here when it comes to the War Funding Supplement, New GI Bill, Disaster Relief Funds and Unemployment Extension Funds. All of this is Necessary and this Legislation must be passed just as the White House and Congress put it together. Exact same Language so our President will sign it into Law. Like the person wrote yesterday,"For God's Sake there are People's Lives at stake here". When you vote or decide to delay this Bill, Please remember those words, because people's lives are at stake here. Pass the Bill please, just as it is.
BUSH wants to bail out Wall street but the unemployed can just wait and starve!
The Congress, the Senate and BUSH are criminal, despicable, naive,and in very dangerous water. To ignore the unemployed and not take care of them is so shortsighted its beyond belief. More Extended benefits need to be passed now! The seven weeks is really a joke as unemployment WILL continue to rise and rise. It needs to be a total of 52 or more as it was in the past. Wake up politician's (PUBLIC SERVANT) as your day is coming, and you be joining the unemployed and learn first hand what it can feel like to be jobless. More jobs will be lost, more Banks will fail and you can only blame yourselves for letting Bush and Cheney get away with robbing the working American public who are as dumb and naive as Sarah Palin!
Thank you for being a rare Congressman who chooses based on what they believe and not what letter follows their name.
While I have not always agreed with all of your views, I think this country would be a lot better if we had more people in both parties (or no parties) that simply voted as they believed!
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