Editing Joe Lieberman (section)

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| name                = Joe Lieberman
| image               = Joe Lieberman official portrait 2 (cropped 2).jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2005
| jr/sr               = United States Senator
| state               = [[Connecticut]]
| term_start          = January 3, 1989
| term_end            = January 3, 2013
| predecessor         = [[Lowell Weicker]]
| successor           = [[Chris Murphy]]
| office1             = Chair of the [[Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee]]
| term_start1         = January 3, 2007
| term_end1           = January 3, 2013
| predecessor1        = [[Susan Collins]]
| successor1          = [[Tom Carper]]
| term_start2         = June 6, 2001
| term_end2           = January 3, 2003
| predecessor2        = [[Fred Thompson]]
| successor2          = Susan Collins
| term_start3         = January 3, 2001
| term_end3           = January 20, 2001
| predecessor3        = Fred Thompson
| successor3          = Fred Thompson
| order4              = 21st
| office4             = Attorney General of Connecticut
| governor4           = [[William A. O'Neill|William O'Neill]]
| term_start4         = January 5, 1983
| term_end4           = January 3, 1989
| predecessor4        = [[Carl R. Ajello]]
| successor4          = [[Clarine Nardi Riddle]]
| state_senate5       = Connecticut State
| term_start5         = January 1971
| term_end5           = January 1981
| constituency5       = {{ubl|[[Connecticut's 11th State Senate district|11th district]] (1971–1973)|[[Connecticut's 10th State Senate district|10th district]] (1973–1981)}}
| predecessor5        = [[Edward L. Marcus]]
| successor5          = John Daniels
| birth_name          = Joseph Isadore Lieberman
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1942|2|24}}
| birth_place         = [[Stamford, Connecticut]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2024|3|27|1942|2|24}}
| death_place         = New York City, U.S.
| restingplace        = [[Congregation Agudath Sholom]]
| party               = {{ubl|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] (1960–2006, from{{nbsp}}2013)|[[Independent politician|Independent]] (2006–2013)<ref name = Voght>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2023/11/07/joe-lieberman-no-labels-2024 |title=Joe Lieberman Will Not Leave His Fellow Democrats Alone |last=Voght |first=Kara |date=November 7, 2023 |accessdate=March 27, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url-access=limited |quote=Officially he'd ended his 24 years in the Senate as an independent, but when he moved to the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, Lieberman registered to vote with the party he'd joined amid heady idealism of the Kennedy years. |archive-date=November 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111051732/https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2023/11/07/joe-lieberman-no-labels-2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
| otherparty          = {{ubl|[[Connecticut for Lieberman]] (2006–2013)|[[No Labels]] (from{{nbsp}}2010)}}
| spouse              = {{ubl|{{marriage|Betty Haas|1965|1981|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Hadassah Freilich]]|1982}}}}
| children            = 3
| education           = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[LLB]])
| signature           = Joe Lieberman Signature.svg
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'''Joseph Isadore Lieberman''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|iː|b|ər|m|ən}}; 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 (United States)|Democratic Party]], he was its [[2000 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection|nominee for vice president of the United States]] 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.

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 (United States)|Republican Party]] incumbent [[Lowell Weicker]] in [[1988 United States Senate election in Connecticut|1988]] to win election to the U.S. Senate and was re-elected in [[1994 United States Senate election in Connecticut|1994]], [[2000 United States Senate election in Connecticut|2000]], and [[2006 United States Senate election in Connecticut|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 [[American Jews|Jewish]] candidate on a U.S. [[major party]] presidential ticket.<ref name="EDAH">{{cite web |url=http://www.edah.org/backend/coldfusion/search/document.cfm?title=The%20Lieberman%20Phenomenon&hyperlink=The_Lieberman_Phenomenon.html&type=JournalArticle&category=Orthodoxy%20and%20Modernity&authortitle=Dr.&firstname=Samuel&lastname=Heilman&pubsource=The%20Edah%20Journal%20Volume%201%3A1&authorid=278&pdfattachment=heilman.pdf |title=The Lieberman Phenomenon |work=Dr. Samuel Heilman&nbsp;– The Edah Journal Volume 1:1 |access-date=December 31, 2011 |archive-date=February 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202072750/http://www.edah.org/backend/coldfusion/search/document.cfm?title=The%20Lieberman%20Phenomenon&hyperlink=The_Lieberman_Phenomenon.html&type=JournalArticle&category=Orthodoxy%20and%20Modernity&authortitle=Dr.&firstname=Samuel&lastname=Heilman&pubsource=The%20Edah%20Journal%20Volume%201%3A1&authorid=278&pdfattachment=heilman.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washtimes.com/elections/candidate/336/ |title=Joseph Lieberman |work=The Washington Times |access-date=September 3, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In the 2000 presidential election, Gore and Lieberman won the [[Popular vote (United States presidential election)|popular vote]] by a margin of more than 500,000 votes but lost the deciding [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] to the Republican [[George W. Bush]]–[[Dick Cheney]] ticket 271–266. 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 (United States)|third party]] candidate under the [[Connecticut for Lieberman]] party label.

Lieberman was officially listed in Senate records for the [[110th United States Congress|110th]] and [[111th Congress]] as an Independent Democrat,<ref name="senate party">{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?Name=Lieberman |title=Senators of the 110th Congress |publisher=[[U.S. Senate]] |date=January 3, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061227185804/https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?Name=Lieberman |archive-date=December 27, 2006 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/conventions-over-lieberman-embarks-on-lonely-september-2008-09-09.html |title=The Hill |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=May 24, 2010 |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209132723/http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/conventions-over-lieberman-embarks-on-lonely-september-2008-09-09.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/us/politics/19cong.html?nl=pol&emc=pola1 | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Democrats Gain as Stevens Loses Race | first=Carl | last=Hulse | date=November 19, 2008 | access-date=March 27, 2010 | archive-date=February 2, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202072756/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/us/politics/19cong.html?nl=pol&emc=pola1 | url-status=live }}</ref> 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]].<ref name="auto">{{cite journal|url=http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/6/1117|title=The Origins And Demise Of The Public Option|first1=Helen A.|last1=Halpin|first2=Peter|last2=Harbage|date=June 1, 2010|journal=Health Affairs|volume=29|issue=6|pages=1117–1124|doi=10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0363|pmid=20530340|doi-access=free|access-date=May 3, 2016|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006160040/http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/6/1117|url-status=live | issn=0278-2715 }}</ref>