lieberman: mr. president knowing that we're scheduled to go out at 12:50 i want to ask unanimous consent that we stay in session for no longer than ten minutes more we sew we'll break at 1:00 p.m. for senator collins and i to respond to senator mccain, hopefully sooner than that. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair particularly since the chair will be occupied by the distinguished senator from montana between now and then. mr. president, i want to respond to the statement my friend from arizona made. very briefly a couple of big points the first is that senator mccain i think has declared the postal service of the united states dead much too prematurely. he compares it to the pony express. of course the electronic mail and other changes have occurred but today every day the postal service delivers 563 million pieces of mail, every day. there are businesses and individuals all over our country that depend on the mail. the estimate is that there are approximately

thank you, senator lieberman. you know, one of the best thing about working in the senate is the opportunity to learn and to know from colleague whose statesmanship is an example for the rest of us. in my brief time in the senate i've had a chance to get to know joe lieberman and learn from him. he represent as view of america's role in the world in the tradition of democratic leaders like franklin roosevelt and harry truman, john f. kennedy, scoop jackson. in my experience with him, joe lieberman is a statesman who takes positions on every important national issue, because he believes they best serve our country's interests and values. so thank you, joe, for your introduction, and more importantly, thank you for your example. i'm privileged to serve with you. i want to thank brookings for this opportunity. i wanted to contribute today a few thoughts of the current debate over america's role in the world, and in this the 21st century and i wanted to give this speech today to share with you my ompgss of someone who

thank you, senator lieberman. you know one of the best things about working in the senate is the opportunity to learn and to know from colleagues whose statesmanship is an example for the rest of us. in my brief time in the senate, i've had the chance to get to note joe lieberman and learn from him. he represents a screw of america's role in the world and the tradition of democratic leaders like franklin roosevelt and harry truman through john f. kennedy and joop jackson. in my every experience with him, it's been evident that joe leader man is a statesman to takes positions on every important national issue because he believes they best serve our corrupt's interests and values. so thank you, joe, for your introduction and more importantly thank you for your example. i'm privileged to serve with you. i want to thank brooks for this opportunity. i wanted to contribute food a few opportunities on the current debate other ever over america's role in the world in this the 21 century. and i wanted to give this speech t

lieberman: i thank the chair. madam president, i want to thank the senator from oregon for his excellent statement really. senator collins and i want to work with him and the other cosponsors of the amendment. i want to say a couple of things. the first is that the particular examples that senator merkley gave of the importance of post offices in small towns and in rural america really makes a larger point to those who have said -- those within the senate and those outside that in the age of the internet, the post office is a relic we can't afford. we've just got to cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. there's no question that because the post office is running big deficits, up to about $13 billion over the last two years, there's got to be economizing, and we've got to look at a different business model. but to draw an easy conclusion that in the age of the internet the post office and the postal service doesn't have a role to play and isn't playing a role anymore is just wrong. and i think your examples in very personal way

lieberman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. the presiding officer: morning business is closed. mr. lieberman: thank you. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the motion to proceed to the motion to reconsider the vote by which clotures was not invoked on the motion to proceed to s. 1789 is agreed to. the motion to reconsider the vote is agreed to and the senate will resume consideration of the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to s. 1789. upon reconsideration, which the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 296, s. 1789, a bill to improve, sustain and transform the united states postal service. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be 10 minutes of debate equally divided and co

on here you won't you know the last thing that the likes of mccain and lieberman really want is to have those elections in syria to have the parties standing and to have a compromised political solution there are people who want to forcibly topple the assad regime the question is though will russia and china stay further i hope you and also the syrian people because at the end of the day. it's the syrian people who are keeping president assad in because they want him to stay in power and and the reason why would you change hasn't happened yet is because president is that still has to go if you support the right nail on free that's all the time we have a journalist neil clark thank you thank you very much and some hearts in washington keep calling for military interference in syria or launching a preemptive strike on iran a majority of americans are against such drastic steps that's according to opinion polls which often reveal views the authorities are unwilling to listen to later this hour we'll bring you an interview with the c.e.o. of the major u.s. pollster a gallup here's a quick l

lieberman: i thank the chair. madam president, i want to thank my dear friend and colleague from maine, my really not ranking member but sort of cochair, partner of our committee, for her excellent statement. and i share her frustration about the procedural moment we're at in the senate on this bill. i -- i hope and i believe that this is temporary, that senator reid's intention is to do exactly what senator collins has said she would like to see happen which is that we negotiate an agreement. hopefully -- it will have to be adopted by consent but we can do amendment by amendment where we go back and forth and consider amendments from each side of the aisle. it's not as if -- i know senator reid has filled the tree. it's not as if there are not amendments that members of the senate democratic caucus want to offer to the bill. there are. there are several of them. and i know there are several on the republican side. we worked very hard on this bill as senator collins as said. the meetings did seem endless. i would

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is that, senator lieberman, just another stall tactic by the assad regime? >> yeah, i think it is another stall tactic by the assad regime. you've got to take it in the context of all the broken pro promises and distractions and delays of assad. while he does that, he continues to murder his own people. >> so senator mccain, what are you hoping to see in terms of military involvement, in terms of military action? early on, you called for international air strikes with some involvement from the u.s., that the u.s. is now helping with communications equipment, other states, qatar, saudi arabia, are arming or giving funds to the opposition forces. what are you hoping to see? >> first of all, the information we have is they haven't gotten anything yet. second of all, i'm pleased we want to give them communications equipment. communications equipment doesn't do very well against helicopters, tanks, and artillery. and i understand the reluctance of the american people, but the job of leaders of the american people is to explain why we should do what we can to stop

senators joe lieberman and tom coburn, and representative sheila jackson lee, and elijah cummings. then we'll do a campaign quick check on the presidential race where mitt romney had this to say to the president-- >> start packing. ( laughs ) that's what i'd like-- i'd like to say. >> schieffer: polls show romney is closing in on the president, but is it a little early to be measuring drapes for the oval office? we'll ask his longtime adviser eric fehrnstrom and stephanie cutter, the president's deputy campaign manager. we'll talk about the changing face of poverty with the authors of a new book, travis smiley and cornell west. and we'll get analysis on all of it from the "washington post's" melinda henneberger, "national journal's" major garrett, and our own political team, john dickerson and norah o'donnell. that's a lot to cover but this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: ask good morning, again. and welcome to "face the nation." senator joe lieberman who is chairman of the senate hom

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lieberman was a part of that. lieberman campaigned for the other candidate. so i don't want to hear that you could have gotten everything you wanted because you had 60 votes. we never had 60 votes. i recognize also some democrats in the senate do vote differently, but that's because we're a much more broad-based party with more open mind and more open ideas. but, again, to speak about a mandate, because i know republicans are very strong in message, democrats really stink at message. republicans are very strong, lockstep in their message. and again, the record filibusters. you can't have it both ways. you can't say we're the minority. we have to protect the minority. we're the majority, we get everything we want. >> mr. forbes? >> well, in terms of 2008, joe lieberman may have liked john mccain, but he did not endorse john mccain. and when he caucused, he caucused with the democrats, and the democrats welcomed him back into the fold. and he voted for president obama's health care bill. and so in terms of the health care bill, even though the american people p

senator joe lieberman sits down with chris to talk about the latest in the secret service investigation. and then senator mitch daniels. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> chris: i'm chris wallace. the latest on the secret service sex scandal. is what happened in colombia an isolated incident or part of a pattern of misbehavior? we'll get answers from senator joe lieberman, chairman of the homeland security committee which is looking into the case. then is the recovery beginning to stall just as the agai genel election campaign takes shape? we will discuss one state's economic success story and who is on the short list to be mitt romney's running mate with indiana governor mitch daniels. also, government workers behaving badly. secret service agents and the spending spree by the gsa. we will ask our sunday panel if president obama will pay a political price for controversies on his watch, all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. investigators are still gathering evidence in that colombian sex scandal to determine if it was

senator lieberman? >> thanks, mr. chairman. thanks to both of you. my friend from arizona. i have a disagreement. i want to come to the defense of the department of homeland security. the fact is that we haven't had a major terrorist attack on the u.s. since 9/11 and you have to give the leadership, bipartisan, over two administrations, and the thousands of people who work at dhs, some credit for that. secondly, in terms of the stove piping, i think a better analogy here, and it's not a perfect one, it's to compare the relationship between the cia and the fbi to the relationship between cyber command, nsa and dhs. cia has authority outside of the united states of america. the fbi has authority -- this is -- speaking about terrorism, for instance or threats to the nation -- fbi has authority within the country. the problem before 9/11 is there weren't stove piped. they weren't cooperating enough. in the same way nsa cybercommand, as you said, has the responsibility to protect america. it's a jewel. it's a national treasurer from attack along with many other, cyberattack, alo

congressional panels in both the house and the senate are getting involved, this includes senator joseph lieberman of connecticut, who has had questions to the secret service director this week. >> for instance, what are the regulations, the rules of conduct that are drilled into secret service agents about what behavior is expected of them when they're on assignment but off duty? that's very important. i don't have the answer to that yet. but we are going to get it. >> senator chuck grassley wants to know if any white house advance or communications staff were involved and the homeland security chair fired off a long list of questions to mark sullivan, the secret service director, on friday. >> in fact, if foreign nationals were brought back into a security area on the eve of the trip of the president of the united states goes against everything that the secret service stands for. there is no way it can be explained, condoned imrks excuse. there has continue a zero tolerance policy for this, in the future. >> so far, there have been no evidence that the president's security in columbia was compro

let me ask you and try to bringing in senator lieberman, as well. you speak about the u.s. helping to create a safe haven, providing food and medicine, communication equipment, and then you add "potentially weapons." now the word potentially does not seem to me a clear definition of american leadership. so what do you mean potentially weapons? >> what kind. >> sure, i'll answer that first. first of all, we have to ensure that lover it is we ultimately we equip them or our allies is equip them, we understand the nature of who they are and their ability to protect these from falling into the wrong hands. they have to show us some increased structural capacity. you just can't give that over to a force that can become the weapons could fall into the wrong hands in a global marketplace. i think we need to see some progress in terms of the development, more organization around -- >> how long? >> well, it all depends on how long it takes for them to organi organize. it's a cash 22. >> where does american leadership come if? >> helping them get organized. we don't know who the oppo

>>chris: senator lieberman, thank you for coming in today. service storys. >> thank you. >> up next, indiana governor mitch daniels joins us to talk about the economic recovery and whether he will be mitt romney's running mate. >>chris: a lot of republicans wanted indiana governor daniel dozen run for president and now a lot of republicans want mitt romney to choose daniels as the running mate and here to talk about that, here is governor daniels. welcome back to fox news sunday, sir. >>guest: glad to be here. >>chris: you endorsed romney this week but here is what you said in an interview with the indianapolis star here is what you said in an inkjet view. you have to campaign to govern not just to win. look at everything through the lense of folks who have yet to a achieve. romney doesn't talk that way. question, is romney out of touch with americans who are struggling in this economy? >> no, i think he is much more in touch honestly than the president apparently will ever be. he has been out there and roughed up in the primaries and been fa

senators john mccain and joe lieberman also toured the camps today on a separate trip than annan's. getting a better reception than annan. we spoke by phone. senator mccain, the syrian regime promised to withdraw troops by today as part of kofi annan's peace plan. has the u.n. been played here? clearly they've gone beyond the deadline. >> i think it's very obvious they've been played just like the arab league proposal bashar assad agreed to before. the fact is, anderson, if bashar assad withdraws from the city then the opposition takes over. and he can't have that. resistance will take over as soon as they're withdrawn. >> senator lieberman, have we reached the end of the line diplomatically? >> well, i think we have. i don't know how many times world leaders are going to have to be deceived, lied to by assad before they realize that this man can't be trusted. to me one of the most profoundly troubling parts of the trips that john mccain and i have made these last couple of days is talking to the syrian opposition to the free syrian army and find all of the sympathetic words from wo

we'll get answers from senator joe lieberman, chairman of the homeland security committee which is looking into the case. then is the recovery beginning to stall just as the agai genel election campaign takes shape? we will discuss one state's economic success story and who is on the short list to be mitt romney's running mate with indiana governor mitch daniels. also, government workers behaving badly. secret service agents and the spending spree by the gsa. we will ask our sunday panel if president obama will pay a political price for controversies on his watch, all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. investigators are still gathering evidence in that colombian sex scandal to determine if it was a one-time occurrence or something more. so far, 22 members of the secret service and military have been implicated and six secret service agents have been forced out. joining us now to discuss where the don'ter is arecy goes -- controversy goes from here is senator joe lieberman chairman of the homeland security committee which oversees the secr

joining us now to discuss where the controversy goes from here is senator joe lieberman. chairman of the homeland security committee, which oversees the secret service. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good to be with you. >> chris: before we get to that subject, there is a report today that iran has reverse engineered that u.s. spy drone. you can see it right here on the screen. that apparently crashed in iran and that they captured last year and that the iranians have begun building a copy. as a senior member of the senate armed services committee, if this report is true, how significant is it militarily? >> i haven't been briefed on it at all. this is the first this morning with the announcement from tehran i heard about it. i would take it with some skepticism. there is a history here of iranian bluster ; particularly, now when they are on the defensive because of the economic sanctions against them. look, it was not good for the u.s. when the drone went down in iran, and not good when the iranians grabbed it. i don't have confidence at this point that they are r

should have control over the local budget and now we have joe lieberman and mr. cantor, mr. mcdonald and that gover in -- governor of virginia, mr. essa who is chair of the committee and the president of the united states. we can't get the budget autonomy now, when are we going to get it? and this time, the package is coming together and the republicans don't have any reason to vote against it since their constituents agree with ours and this is across all demographic lines, all geographic lines. we could find no difference or they can find no difference between democrats and republicans, southerners and northerners, people going to church and people who speak, sleep at home on sunday and that is a basic american notion. it's my money, nobody should fool with it but those people i put in charge. >> sounds promising, thank you for coming in. >>> just ahead on the news edge, president obama asking congress for millions of dollars. money he believes will help control the price of gas. >>> sue. >>> hello, brian. a nice day here in d.c. so glad everything cooperated for discovery

lieberman: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: mr. president, i want to thank my friend, the senator from delaware, for his excellent statement on the bill and where we are in regard to the u.s. postal service. really, i want to thank him for what he has done over the last several years to try to save the u.s. postal service in a changing environment and to lead the change. no one in the senate, i believe no one in the congress has worked harder over the last decade to reform the u.s. postal service than senator tom carper, and there is a way in which he is engaged by the kinds of problems that others try to get far away from. he sees an institution like the u.s. postal service, he knows how important it is, and he is challenged by it and he goes at it with all of his considerable capabilities and persistence until he gets it right. i can't thank him enough for doing that. this is not the kind of issue on which you gain a lot of political advantage, but it's again a test of our government. it's a test of our capacity to maintain publi

lieberman: i thank the chair. mr. president, i want to thank senator akaka for coming to the floor and speaking on behalf of his amendment. he's just one of the most hardworking, constructive members of our committee, the committee from which the underlying bill has come. he's one of the finest people i've ever met. i have just the greatest admiration and affection for him. so, like senator collins, it is with some reluctance that i must say i oppose this amendment. i want to just be very brief because senator collins has spoken well on it. i think the current system goes beyond really taking care of those who need workers' compensation and it's come to a point where it is unfair not just to those who are paying for the system but to others who are working in the postal service today, and i do think that -- i thank senator collins -- she's worked very hard on this, very thoughtfufully. the proposal she made turned out to be so balanced and constructive that folks in the obama administration who had been working 0en a

hard-line centers, joe lieberman and john mccain, have called for more help for the rebels. what do they have in mind? >> they want a regime change. we have to be clear and frank. this is not only to help the civilian population that is suffering so badly from the atrocities of the syrian regime. lieberman and others want to see a regime change because the syrian regime is closely linked with the one in iran. they are friends. should the regime in this area toppled be toppled, and this means a weakening of the regime in iran. for this reason, we have to look at things from a larger perspective. there is a strong likelihood of either the united states or israel attacking iran, and for this matter, syria is in focus. it is not convincing sing american the senators criticizing the syrian regime for very good reasons but remaining silent when it comes to criticizing the regime in bahrain, which has crushed its own uprising in that country as brutally as the syrian regime did. but bahrain is a close ally of the u.s., so there's no criticism whatsoever of the bar any regime. >> th

senator lieberman said you won't be surprised to learn that the same polling figures don't take place -- somehow if you get through the same thing as the american people something can happen. >> try a referendum. >> i am proud to work in the programs for -- constitution center. when do you see, the in our congress in 2013? in my lifetime? in my middle age? children's lifetime? in my grandchildren's life time? thank you. >> i am hopeful the day after the 2012 election. if you throw enough of the rascals out and make the incumbents more worried about losing their seats if they don't know the public interest instead of to preserve their offices you have a chance to see it. depends on when we the people raise enough help. it is all set forth in the book. [laughter] >> i'm getting worried about libel and slander. cannibals and rascals, got to be careful what we say. >> i am karen gross, writer and editor at the constitution center and a question for both of you. part of the problem with politics is i don't find their our candidates that i like or want to vote for and two longtime political

good morning, chairman lieberman, ranking member collins. i thank you for the opportunity to testify today regarding dual-use life science research of concern. my testimony today will describe both department of homeland security mechanisms for addressing and mitigating dual-use concerns arising from internal life sciences research that dhs funds or performs as well as dhs involvement in u.s. government and other efforts to address security concerns arising from the life sciences research. as the department considers the durc issue, several principles help guide our thinking. first, durc is an extremely complex issue for the scientific research and development community. balancing our nation's need to excel in science and exploration of robust technologies with ensuring our nation's security by preventing the misuse of such technology. second, almost all research conducted today in bioscience and biotechnology contains some degree of dual-use application. third, dual-use concerns must be addressed at a variety of different levels from resear

>> there is. >> under the bill that senator lieberman and i have introduced to try to get that essential visibility that you have emphasized is so important. we would require mandatory reporting in the event of an attack. because this can't be discretionary, if in fact there is a significant attack on critical infrastructure, and critical infrastructure is defineded as infrastructure, an attack upon which would cause mass casualties, a severe economic impact or a serious degradation of our national security. so do you support requiring that mandatory reporting in such cases? >> i do, senator, and i think i would add that as we discussed earlier, that in order for us to help prevent it, it has to be in real time i think that's absolutely essential to the defense. >> and bidirectional has become the latest way to prefer to this. even nsa, the capabilities of which are unparalleled can learn from the private sector, i think you learned that in the study that there were some signatures that the private sector had that nsa may not have had. is that accurate? >> that's accurate and logical whe

now senator lieberman. >> thanks, mr. chairman. thanks to the three of you for your service and leadership. i want to ask you contemporary questions before i get to the budget and particularly you general amos about the marines in afghanistan. the first we're going through a difficult time, beginning with some acts of violence by afghan national security forces against our troops and now we have had a couple of bad situations involving our forces. give us a sense, if you can, of what you're hearing from our marines in afghanistan about their relationship with the afghan national security forces and if it's relevant with people of afghanistan that they're interacting with. what kind of level of trust interaction do they have? >> senator, the -- i can probably sum it up with just a recap of an e-mail i got. i got two of them two days ago. we just turned over the leadership of the marines in helmand province. the command was given to general gainous. the night before was a huge dinner hosted by the provincial governor. i'm confident t

i have been to washington four times, including two weeks ago at a hearing before senator lieberman. we have a bill before congress about no budget or no pay. i don't know if you're familiar with that. but i wonder what you think about no labels. more portly, does this country need a third-party? could we form a third-party with people like you, and people who have been scrapped out of office by extremes and somehow coalesce to have a moderate middle, of which i think is the majority, taking control of this country. >> i went to new york when they first announced it in those kind of things. i am also familiar with what you reference, which is if they don't pass a budget and congress, the members of congress will not get paid, which is very politically popular, although i'm not sure it's a very political scene. having said that, no labels, it is not a political party, it is a movement to say that you should not oppose the politics with labels. you shouldn't be too republican, democrat, extreme. you should be able to work together to get things done. it is a movement in that direction.

party candidate who the same picture of lies on the democratic side where a top notch senator like joe lieberman couldn't win a democratic primary. so what has evolved is a great worry on the part of the members of congress. that is if one vote is cast which is it causes the party to fight views in a primary where there's a very low turnout that's the end of a political career and there are very few that are prepared to take their political career on the line for a vote notwithstanding what the public interest is to read this book goes into great detail. my approach to being in public service, and the votes that i cast and the one critical vote which was the end of the association between the republican party, and i think ronald reagan best put it when he said years ago he was a democrat, did you know that ronald reagan was a democrat? well, he was. and as he put it, he didn't leave the democratic party. the democratic party left him. let me assure you, of republican party in 1980, when i was elected to this dennett was a vastly different republican party that was as we moved into the 21st centu

a great day, thanks and we will not miss the interview with -- >> quickly, jamie, joe lieberman, the head of the homeland security committee which oversees the secret service, a lot of interesting information and some news that he makes about the investigation of the secret service and also of the gsa. >> jamie: news making interviews, today and most days on fox news sunday. thanks, chris. >> thanks, jamie. >> jamie: we won't miss it, 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern, right here on fox. >> eric: just an hour from now on the fox news channel. a new york republican party chairman ed cox, as you may know, president richard nixon's son-in-law and will weigh in on the race an primaries that will happen on tuesday. and they say there is a phones new break through, on a vaccine for the same type of cancer that took the life of senator edward kennedy. what does that mean? the doctors siegel and samadi are here and will explain the latest, straight ahead in the week's "sunday house call," coming up. ♪ [ male announc ] you plant. you mow. you grow. you dream. meet the new definition of durabi

senator joe lieberman today on "face the nation". >> now you're into the hotel where the president of the united states was going to stay. and it just gets more troubling. >> reporter: lieberman is now joining some of his senate colleagues like republican chuck grassley who were also calling for a broader investigation into whether white house staffer kos have been involved. and although more members of the secret service are expected to be fired this week, so far most lawmakers are voicing support for director mark sullivan and the way he's handled the fallout, jeff. >> jeff: whit johnson at the white house, whit, thank you. >> george zimmerman, the accused murder of trayvon martin will likely be released on bond. the question remains, when. mark straussman is watching and waiting in florida, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jeff, before zimmerman can go home he needs a couple of things. he needs $15,000 in cash which is a challenge for his family. he also needs a plan to get him out of here safely. >> reporter: for 11 days seminole county jail has housed george zimmer

. >> rose: where are people like lieberman,ed foreign principle ster on this. >> lieberman says he is for a two state solution. he lives quite deep in a settlement in the west bank himself. i think lieberman's signature contribution to israeli politics has been a whole series of legislation aimed at demonizing and disenfranchising israel, arab citizens inside israel's original borders. which is very frightening because the relationship between the state of israel and those people who are citizens is so critical to the health and security of the country. >> rose: you called book the crisis of zionism, define the crisis. >> the cries sis that i believe zionism can only succeed as a democratic movement as it was enadviceaged by its founders. the idea of a reconciling, a liberal democratic state and a state that safeguards the jewish people. if it fails as a democracy, if zionism is not a democratic project, if israel permanently controls million of non-citizen palestinians who don't have the right to vote, i think zionism itself will ultimately die and be a trag gee for the jewish people