Joseph Lieberman News

It will be another week before senators begin floor debate on the Democrats' health care overhaul bill, but many in Washington are already predicting the demise of its current provision for a modest government-run insurance program.

On Nov. 7 Congress voted to pass a health care bill that will do much, though not all that is needed, to provide good and affordable health care for most in our country.

Democrats had little time to savor their weekend Senate health care victory, as two of the lawmakers who voted to move the debate forward Saturday night indicated Sunday that they will not vote to pass the package if it includes a government-run insurance program.

Sun Nov 22, 4:41 pm ET CQ Transcriptswire SPEAKERS: DAVID GREGORY, HOST SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, D-CALIF. SEN.

But witnesses told the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that it won't be easy.

The White House refused the invitation for administration officials to testify at the first hearing on the Fort Hood shootings this week, but Sen.

The Senate voted on Saturday to begin full debate on major health care legislation, propelling President Obama's top domestic initiative over a crucial, preliminary hurdle in a formidable display of muscle-flexing by the Democratic majority.

While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a growing chorus of liberal lawmakers are making similar threats if the bill doesn't have one.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee hearings into whether the Army missed warning signs about Maj.

The Senate hearing Thursday on the Fort Hood shooting began with questions about how federal agencies can cooperate to identify and prevent extremist behavior and unraveled to speculation on whether the First Amendment should apply fully to members of the military.

There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his rampage, a top senator said Friday.

Several lawmakers and terror experts at Senate hearings on the Fort Hood shooting Thursday called the incident a terrorist attack, and warned of the danger of homegrown jihad.

The Pentagon will conduct a department-wide review in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shooting, taking a broad look at the mental health of the force as well as at procedures for sharing intelligence and assessing personnel performance.

Lawmakers are demanding answers about the shortage of the H1N1 vaccine, putting health officials in the hot seat on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman says his Homeland Security Committee will try to ensure that the kinds of lapses that led to the Fort Hood shootings won't happen again.

The Senate leadership hasn't swayed Sen. Joe Lieberman to call off his threat to filibuster the health care bill.

US public health officials defended the distribution of swine flu vaccines yesterday against criticism that their plan to protect Americans was confusing and over-optimistic. Manufacturers have delivered 48.5 million doses of H1N1 vaccine, Dr.

Senator Joe Lieberman said he has 'no other choice' but to filibuster a health care bill that contains a government-run health insurance option, adding that while reform is needed, the public option would be harmful to America's future and that he would use his right as a senator to try 'to stop it.' 'I have no other choice,' Lieberman told several ...

The US is opposed to the Palestinian plan to pursue unilateral statehood at the UN, a State Department official said Monday night.

Some very good news on the international front, as the UK Guardian reports today: During a hastily convened breakfast meeting in Singapore, the US president supported a Danish plan to salvage something from the moribund negotiations by aiming for a broad political agreement and postponing contentious decisions on emissions targets, financing and ...