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Lieberman in 1994: Filibuster is ‘unfair’ and it isn’t
‘right’ to use it to obstruct major legislation.
By Zaid Jilani on Oct 30th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
In recent days, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has raised the ire
of health care advocates by threatening to filibuster Senate
health care legislation unless the public option is removed
from it, a move that was a boon to the stock prices of major
health insurance companies. Lieberman was singing a
different tune in 1994, however. At that time Lieberman, a
freshman senator, was working with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) to
introduce legislation that would drastically weaken the
power of the filiibuster. HuffPost’s Sam Stein recalls that
the Connecticut senator said it was “unfair” to use the
filibuster to threaten major legislation and argued it isn’t
“right” to use it to obstruct progress:
“The whole process of individual senators being able to hold
up legislation, which in a sense is an extension of the
filibuster because the hold has been understood in one way
to be a threat to filibuster — it’s just unfair.”
“I’m very proud to be standing here with Tom [Harkin] as two
Democrats saying that we’re going to begin this fight,
because we’ve just been stung by the filibuster for a period
of years, and even though the tables have now turned, it
doesn’t make it right for us to use this instrument that we
so vilified.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/30/lieberman-filibuster/
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