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Joe Lieberman

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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.

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Feb 4, 2004

We will provide our men and women in uniform with everything that they need to ensure that they succeed in their mission.

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Feb 4, 2004

Saddam Hussein represented a great threat that had to be confronted with military force.

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Feb 4, 2004

It was reasonable to conclude that Iraq posed an imminent threat.

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Feb 4, 2004

To make sure that we complete the mission we started with success, and to return our service men and women home as soon as possible in peace, and in what I would describe as victory.

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Feb 4, 2004

Please continue to support all our men and women in uniform. Please keep America the true leader of peace in the world.

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Jan 25, 2004

Yes. Joe Lieberman is a loaf of bread that continues to rise. No toast.

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Jan 25, 2004

The Independents will play a critical role for me tomorrow. I'm counting on them.

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Jan 25, 2004

The Independents will play a critical role for me tomorrow. I'm counting on them.

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Jan 5, 2004

That would cost middle class families in New Hampshire, an average family, $2,000 a year that they worked so hard for. He would take it back.

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Dec 28, 2003

When you think about the Democratic presidential race, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry started the year off as the prohibitive favorites on the Democratic side, and both end the year at 10 percent or under 10 percent in most national polls.

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Dec 13, 2003

IF Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison.

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Dec 8, 2003

I would say that it was about four or five minutes in length and too late.

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Nov 4, 2003

I hope my wife understands this. I'd like to party with the young lady who asked that question.

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Oct 30, 2003

I do not believe that 10 States in the Northeast would agree to a proposal that this is exactly modeled on, if there was going to be some devastating effect on the economies of 10 Northeastern States. Let's get real. This is a very minimal…

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Oct 30, 2003

I thank Senator Byrd for his statement. Obviously, I regret that he is not going to support the McCain- Lieberman proposal today. But I appreciate very much this fact: He recognizes that there is a problem here. I don't know how some of…

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Oct 29, 2003

The main conclusions of the IPCC and the NRC--that is the National Academy of Sciences--reports remain robust consensus positions, supported by the vast majority of researchers in the fields of climate change and its impacts. The body of…

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Oct 29, 2003

The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, says greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures…

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Oct 16, 2003

I was angered yesterday when I read about a lieutenant general in the American military who has repeatedly cast the war on terrorism as a clash between the Judeo-Christian values and Satan.

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Oct 1, 2003

It is scientifically well established that the Earth's surface air temperature has warmed significantly, by about 0.6 + Celsius (C) since 1860.

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Oct 1, 2003

Changes in climate have major implications for human health, water resources, food supplies, infectious diseases, forests, fisheries, wildlife populations, urban infrastructure, and flood plain and coastal developments in the United States.

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Oct 1, 2003

Most of our confidence that the future will change is based on literally millions and millions of observations which tell us about the heat trapping properties of gases, not based so much on the performance of the planet this century.

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Sep 10, 2003

Congress needs to pass legislation this year to increase grid reliability and to stop energy price manipulation.

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Sep 10, 2003

We ought to act on the consensus that now exists to resolve the reliability problem.

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Sep 10, 2003

Senators Feinstein, Lugar, myself, and a number of other Senators have been working on anti-fraud and anti-manipulation laws.

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Feb 14, 2003

I think this may be one of the more interesting activities and findings of the September 11 commission.

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