Joseph Isadore Lieberman is an American politician, lobbyist and attorney. He served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. During his final term in office he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party.
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Joseph Isadore Lieberman is an American politician, lobbyist and attorney. He served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. During his final term in office he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party. Before the 2016 election, he endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. His family is Jewish; his paternal grandparents emigrated from Congress Poland and his maternal grandparents were from Austria-Hungary. He received a B. A. in both political science and economics from Yale University in 1964 and was the first member of his family to graduate from college. Lieberman met his first wife, Betty Haas, at the congressional office of Senator Abraham Ribicoff, where they worked as summer student interns. In 1982, he met his second wife, Hadassah Tucker, while he was running for Attorney General of Connecticut. According to Washington Week, Lieberman’s parents were Holocaust survivors. The couple have two children, Matt and Rebecca, who are also Jewish. Lieberman has worked as a lobbyist for Hill & Knowlton, based in New York City, since March 2005. He is married to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and has a son and daughter-in-law, Matt Lieberman and Rebecca Lieberman-Tucker, both of whom are Jewish. He also has a daughter, Rebecca Lieberman, who is also Jewish and works as a psychiatric social worker. He has been married to his wife Betty Haas since 1965 and has two children – Matt and Rebecca Lieberman – who are both Jewish.
In 1981, the couple divorced. Lieberman was elected as a \”Reform Democrat\” in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as Majority Leader. He narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker in 1988 to win election to the U. S. Senate, and was re-elected in 1994, 2000, and 2006. In the 2000 presidential election, Lieberman and Al Gore won the popular vote by a margin of more than 500,000 votes, but lost the deciding Electoral College to the Republican George W. BushDick Cheney ticket 271–266. In 2006, Lieberman won re-election in the general election as a third party candidate under the \”Connecticut for Lieberman\” party label. He remained a registered Democrat while he ran. Lieberman introduced and championed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 and legislation that led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. During debate on the Affordable Care Act, as the crucial 60th vote needed to pass the legislation, his opposition to the public health insurance option was critical to its removal from the resulting bill signed by President Barack Obama. In 2008, he no longer attended Democratic Caucus leadership strategy meetings or policy lunches. He announced that he would continue to caucus with the Democrats. He later asked for a divorce from Betty Haas because he thought it would be interesting to go out with someone named “Hadassah”
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