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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Joe says no to the President on Homeland Sec.
CNN's John King reports (via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire):
This is clearly good news for the Democrats as it means the party will not lose a seat in the Senate (had Lieberman been nominated, Connecticut's Republican Governor would have been able to appoint a member of her party to the Senate, diminishing the Democratic caucus to 44 members, counting Jim Jeffords).
Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman has twice in recent days said "no" when approached about the possibility of a major job in the second Bush administration, CNN has learned.Link.
The Cabinet vacancy at the Department of Homeland Security was the subject of the latest overture, according to congressional and other government sources. Those sources said the earlier overture was to see whether Lieberman might be interested in becoming the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
This is clearly good news for the Democrats as it means the party will not lose a seat in the Senate (had Lieberman been nominated, Connecticut's Republican Governor would have been able to appoint a member of her party to the Senate, diminishing the Democratic caucus to 44 members, counting Jim Jeffords).
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