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Joseph Lieberman is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Initially a member of the Democratic Party, he gained national prominence as the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election alongside Al Gore. After losing the election, Lieberman continued to serve in the Senate, where he became known for his centrist views and willingness to cross party lines, particularly on issues such as national security and energy policy.
Basically, Al Gore put the interests of the country first. President Trump on the other hand lost the election by over 7 million votes. He contested in court more than 50 times, lost them all. And still he refuses to give up. And I think…
I think this is a unique moment in history, where the American people are so fed up with the two parties and the two logical probable candidates that they're going to welcome a bipartisan unity third choice on the ballot.
Polling is showing that the American people, 65, 70 percent want another choice other than Trump and Biden.
We got into this because our members about a year-and-a-half ago said to us, oh, my God, another Trump-Biden match. It's not good for the country. It offers no hope of bringing bipartisanship back to Washington regardless of who wins.
I think this is a unique moment in history where the American people are so fed up with the two parties
the polling is showing that the American people, 65, 70 percent want another choice other than Trump and Biden
We're going to ask the delegates on Friday, do you want us to go forward to do some final surveying of public opinion because we've said we're not going to do this unless we have a chance to win.
I'm going to continue to do what I've always done and even more so, which is to work across party lines with my colleagues to get things done for my state and country. To me, that is my singular mission. And I'll work with anybody I agree…
It has mattered to me because there are two great American constitutional principles that are at the heart of the cause of D.C. statehood and that are violated every day in the current treatment of residents of the District of Columbia.
I hope you Members of the Committee in this session will similarly rise to the challenge of this moment and this problem and work together to get something good and great done for our country.
54 percent of the American people, more than half of the American people, support D.C. statehood.
The more than 700,000 citizens of the District of Columbia are our neighbors. They deserve to be treated as such by the rest of us in this country.
You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know.
I hope that the spirit of bipartisanship... will guide your Committee's consideration of the deprivation of voting representation in Congress for citizens of our Capital City.
Its not only a weak basis for judgment, it is unacceptable in our system of law and equity.
Congress has both the moral obligation and the constitutional authority to pass our D.C. statehood bill.
No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which we must live.
Taxation without representation became the rallying cry that led to our Declaration of Independence and a war to achieve it.
It is self-evidently unacceptable in America to condition the enjoyment of constitutional rights on political party membership.
partisan considerations have absolutely nothing to do with the quest of D.C. citizens for full democracy
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