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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
News organizations are honing in on key players in the health reform debate. Sen. Joseph Lieberman is drawing the criticism of Democrats as he once again threatens to withhold his vote from a Senate health care reform bill, The Washington Post reports. Lieberman, I-Conn., "says he is feeling 'relevant' as he threatens to withhold his vote - potentially the decisive 60th -...
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American Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Senators Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) will oppose the government-run insurance option that has been made a central aspect of costly Congressional Democratic health care reform proposals. Apparently the moderate duo understand that such programs are gateways for a government take-over of the health care system and, therefore, shouldn’t be adopted in a free...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Washington – U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Ind-Conn., says he’ll attend key healthcare reform votes despite Orthodox Jewish prohibitions at against working on the Sabbath. Despite rumors that Lieberman would miss the Saturday votes on healthcare reform bill amendments, the 67-year-old senator told The Hill he would walk from a Georgetown synagogue nearly 5 miles to the...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A new ad campaign targeting Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) for opposing a public health insurance plan gets personal. Its main message: "It's not about you. It's all about Joe." It even has a new website: AllAboutJoe.org . The ad is narrated by John Mertens, a Trinity College professor, longshot candidate for Lieberman's seat, and chair of the now-facetiously named Connecticut...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... weeks ago.” "While re-affirming his fierce opposition to the 'public option,' Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., showed an openness to consider the deal, which would create an insurance program regulated by the government but run by private insurance companies," NBC's Ken Strickland writes in a longer piece on Lieberman for MSNBC.com . "Lieberman’s...
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Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... which includes 58 Democrats and two independents. A handful of moderate Democrats as well as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, signaled concerns with the government-run plan, threatening to derail the broader bill. [...] How can they even talk about expanding a failing program, without fixing the program first? Unless it's their intention to create even more chaos...
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Kinshasa On The Potomac (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to prevent "this type of reckless dissemination" in future. In a similar statement, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn.) called the release of the SOP manual an "embarrassing mistake." "A security manual, redacted or not, is not the type of document we want to share with the world," Lieberman noted, adding that the improper redaction only compounds...
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Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
I didn’t even know the League of Women Voters advocated on political issues. But here they are, spanking Sanctimonious Joe. (h/t joejoejoe) The League of Women Voters will launch a anew advocacy campaign next week that asks Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) to reconsider his recent threats to oppose any health care reform bill that includes a public [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Cantwell (D-Wash.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) also attended the meeting. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) was not at the meeting and has vowed to filibuster any bill that has any version of a public option. If Lieberman holds to his threat, Democrats would need Snowe to break a GOP-Lieberman filibuster. Snowe said she was still pushing her "trigger"...
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Expresses Reluctance On Health Care Bill,” The Associated Press, 10/27/09) SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (I-CT): “If the public option plan is in there … as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote.” (“Obama Presses Senate To Act Quickly On Its Health Bill,” The New York Times, 11/9/09) · “Among those in the...
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Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... of a qualified political party when they were elected. They are Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. U.S. Senators in the past who were registered independents part of the time they served in the Senate are Wayne Morse of Oregon (1953-1956), George Norris of Nebraska (1936-1943), and Robert C. Smith of New Hampshire (1999). Also, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., of Virginia,...
