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Joe Lieberman
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Joe Lieberman
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1942-02-24,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2000 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. Lieberman was elected as a Democrat in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as majority leader. After an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980, he served as the Connecticut attorney general from 1983 to 1989. He narrowly defeated Republican Party incumbent Lowell Weicker in 1988 to win election to the U.S. Senate and was re-elected in 1994, 2000, and 2006. He was the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in the 2000 presidential election, running with presidential nominee and then Vice President Al Gore, and becoming the first Jewish candidate on a U.S. major party presidential ticket. Gore and Lieberman lost the 2000 Presidential Election to the Republican George W. Bush–Dick Cheney ticket, while winning the popular vote. He also unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. During his Senate re-election bid in 2006, Lieberman lost the Democratic primary election but won re-election in the general election as a third party candidate under the Connecticut for Lieberman party label. Lieberman was officially listed in Senate records for the 110th and 111th Congress as an Independent Democrat, and sat as part of the Senate Democratic Caucus. After his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in which he endorsed John McCain for president, he no longer attended Democratic Caucus leadership strategy meetings or policy lunches. The Senate Democratic Caucus voted to allow him to keep the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subsequently, he announced that he would continue to caucus with the Democrats. Before the 2016 election, he endorsed Hillary Clinton for president and in 2020 endorsed Joe Biden for president. As senator, 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 (ACA), 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.

Filmography

Diary of a Political Tourist

4.333

Diary of a Political Tourist
2004-10-11

7

Blog Wars
2006-12-28

Centered: Joe Lieberman

6.2

Centered: Joe Lieberman
2025-03-18

Winning New Hampshire

9

Winning New Hampshire
2004-10-16

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

6.6

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017-07-28

Welcome to Death Row

7.792

Welcome to Death Row
2001-09-25

Bowling for Columbine

7.514

Bowling for Columbine
2002-10-09

Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

7.833

Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
2004-09-28

5.5

Celsius 41.11
2004-10-22

This Revolution

4.7

This Revolution
2005-06-29

7.04

Religulous
2008-10-01

Hype: The Obama Effect

0

Hype: The Obama Effect
2008-10-14

How Videogames Changed the World

6.8

How Videogames Changed the World
2013-11-30

7.347

Zero Days
2016-07-08

Fahrenheit 11/9

7.117

Fahrenheit 11/9
2018-09-10

The Weinerville Election Special: From Washington B.C.

0

The Weinerville Election Special: From Washington B.C.
1996-02-17

Last Party 2000

6.75

Last Party 2000
2001-11-02

The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

5.9

The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
2011-09-13

Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis

6.4

Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis
2018-12-11

6.6

60 Minutes
1968-09-24

8

Icons
2002-05-01

7.4

High Score
2020-08-19

5.3

First Ladies
2020-10-04

6.7

Dispatches
1987-10-30

Fox News Sunday

3.75

Fox News Sunday
1996-04-28

Tanner on Tanner

10

Tanner on Tanner
2004-10-05

Inside Obama's White House

8.2

Inside Obama's White House
2016-03-15

At This Hour with Kate Bolduan

5

At This Hour with Kate Bolduan
2014-02-10