Honorable Joesph Lieberman
U.S. Senator, Connecticut, Independent
Senator Lieberman was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988. He serves on the Armed Services and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees. The following is excerpted from a November 29, 2011, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate during debate on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. As Senator Levin has said, we are a Nation at war. As such, we were attacked on 9/11. We adopted in this chamber the authorization for military force. That is about as close to a declaration of war as we have done since the Second…
