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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Joe Lieberman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Lieberman is a former chair of the Democratic Leadership Council, an influential collection of centrist and conservative Democrats, and is considered to be one of the most conservative of prominent Democratic politicians. |
 | | Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1988, scoring the nation's biggest political upset that year by a margin of just 10,000 votes after being backed by a coalition of conservative Democrats, allied with conservative Republicans who were upset with Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker's liberal voting record. |
 | | On May 23, 2005, Lieberman was one of fourteen moderate senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called "nuclear option". |
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