U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman is a key player on health care reform and could potentially be the 60th senator.
That number is particularly important because it takes 60 votes to cut off a filibuster that could derail health care reform.
On NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday morning, Lieberman discussed the issue [...]
Bringing her campaign to the morning bacchanalia outside the Yale-Harvard Game, U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon declared her trust in President Obama on Afghanistan -- but not on health care reform.
McMahon, one of five Republicans running to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd [...] VOTE: 60 vote yea, 39 nay.
After the vote, Senator Dodd released the following statement:
Tonight's vote takes us one [...]
With a key vote in the U.S. Senate scheduled for tomorrow night on national health care reform, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman is one of the key Senators to watch.
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[...]Sen. Joe Lieberman isn’t worried about the political consequences of his stance on health care reform:
“I don’t think about that stuff,” Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m just — I’m being a legislator. After what I went through in 2006, there’s nothing much more that anybody [who] disagrees with [...]
Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]Per the Courant, Fifth Congressional District Rep. Chris Murphy is at the center of a controversy over his health care vote.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running an advertisement criticizing his vote while a liberal-leaning health care reform group is praising the second term Congressman in a rebuttal ad.
So [...]
Here's the letter given to Senator Lieberman from the Concerned Clergy of Connecticut , which was signed by seventy clergy leaders:
We are not politicians. We are [...]
Meriden (WTNH) – All five of Connecticut’s members of Congress voted for health care reform in the House. But only one congressman is being targeted by the industry for that vote.
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In a discussion on health care reform on Fox News Sunday last week, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) told Chris Wallace, “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.”
Last night over 500 people [...]
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...because it's been a while.
Too funny!
Christine Stuart has more regarding the latest senate Q-poll numbers.
Congressman Jim Himes reflects on his health care reform vote
Only in Danbury...
I guess Fedele forgot to talk to Gov. Rowland-Rell about that so-called endorsement
What else [...]
Resolution Urging Senator Joseph Lieberman to Drop Filibuster Threat
and Support U.S. Senate Vote on Health Care Reform with Public Insurance Plan Option
WHEREAS Senator Joseph Lieberman has threatened to filibuster health reform legislation in the United States [...]
Hartford (WTNH) - Protesters who are miffed about Joe Lieberman’s stance against the current health care reform package held demonstrations today at his offices in Washington, D.C. and Hartford.
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[...]Patients First goes after President Obama's broken promises of transparency in the health care reform process:
Washington (AP) – As the focus on health care reform shifts to the Senate, analysts aren’t expecting the chamber to pass an overhaul bill any time soon.
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[...]After the vote, the Connecticut delegation issued a series of releases:
Congressman Joe Courtney:
This evening, the House of Representatives took an historic step in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama summoned Democrats to “answer the call of history” Saturday as the House pushed toward a vote on a landmark health care bill holding out the promise of coverage for tens of millions who lack it.
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[...]Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is opposing a key part of the national health care reform proposal backed by President Obama.
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A woman’s right to choose is under attack. From health care reform to [...]
Nine health care reform activists were arrested this morning while staging a sit-in inside Senator Joseph Lieberman's congressional office in Washington, D.C.
The activists were there representing an organization called Mobilization for Health Care For All.
Explaining their reasons for their actions, student activist Jason Ortiz said, "we staged a sit-in at" [...]
Protesters arrested at Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s office in Washington (ABCNews.com)(WTNH) – Nine people were arrested at Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Washington D.C. office today as part of a protest over health care reform.
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