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Sen. Reid Backs Lieberman for Homeland Security Chairmanship
Newly re-elected Sen. Joe Lieberman has been promised by Sen. Harry Reid – who is in line to become the next Senate Majority Leader – that he will support Lieberman’s efforts to become chairman of the powerful Homeland Security Committee. In a private phone call on Wednesday, Nevada’s Reid told Lieberman that he would recognize Lieberman as the senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which would facilitate Lieberman’s move into the post. Lieberman was the ranking Democrat on the committee, but he lost the Democratic primary in Connecticut and ran successfully as an independent. That leaves Carl Levin of Michigan as the senior committee member elected as a Democrat. However, Lieberman had promised – before the election – that if he won he would continue voting with the Democratic Senate Caucus. Reid is evidently seeking to reward Lieberman for his loyalty with the chairmanship.
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Reportedly, Reid told Lieberman that if an unexpected challenge is made against him for the chairman’s post, Reid will side with Lieberman. Lieberman was first elected to the Senate in 1988, won re-election in a landslide in 1994 and won again in 2000 even as he ran for vice president. Lieberman was chairman of then then-named Governmental Affairs Committee in 2001. It was Lieberman who first called for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, an idea that was later embraced by the Bush administration. Editor's note:
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