Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"I always feel the best thing government can do is to try to help people get and hold good jobs to provide for themselves."

"We reacted in this emergency with an unprecedented spending program and a pressure to spend it quickly."

"I appreciate it, because obviously--and, of course, we will see some of this from the macro economic data, but we hope that the tax cuts will encourage people to spend, because consumption has been fa..."

"I appreciate what you are both doing, first to spend the money that we have appropriated."