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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Politics Lieberman Keeps His Chairmanship

Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM

Let the blog fury begin:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign.

The Connecticut independent will lose a minor panel post as punishment for criticizing Obama this fall.

Lieberman's colleagues in the Democratic caucus voted 42-13 Tuesday on a resolution condemning statements made by Lieberman during the campaign but allowing him to keep the Homeland Security Committee gavel. He loses an Environment and Public Works panel subcommittee chairmanship, however.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was very angry by Lieberman's actions but that "we're looking forward, we're not looking back."

Via Slog.

 

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Motherfucker. The Federal Government is the one place where the more wrong you are about a subject, the more promotions you get in it. And the hard feelings are simply for supporting McCain, it's for the slander that Lieberman levied on Obama's alliegence and patriotism.
Posted by Valentij on November 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM · Report

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