Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"I hope to be able to vote to ratify the New START treaty, but for me, and I think for a lot of members of the Senate, there are two lines of questions that we need to have answered to give us that lev..."

"I hope in the process that Congress will at least fund to the level that the administration has requested for fiscal year 2011."

"to me it was quite valuable to us in terms of assessing the capacity of the Russian missiles, which is important for our national security."

"I hope you will push that envelope a little bit, at least to explore it."