Honorable Joseph Lieberman
United States Senator, Connecticut, Independent Democrat
Senator Joseph Lieberman was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988. He chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and also sits on the Armed Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Small Business Committee. The following is from Senator Lieberman’s September 24, 2007, statement on the floor of the Senate during debate on a Department of Defense Authorization Bill. This amendment would designate the Iranian RevolutionaryGuard Corps [IRGC] as a foreign terrorist organization and thereby subject thisdeadly, nefarious group to a series of economic and diplomatic sanctions thatSenator [Jon] Kyl [AZ-R] and I think…
