Less Aggressive
Lieberman’s record over the past two years also differs from a more aggressive style that he displayed when Democrats controlled the Senate for much of President Bush’s first two years in office.
In 2002, Lieberman doggedly pursued the accounting scandals at Enron. Lieberman’s committee issued 29 subpoenas to Enron, its former auditing firm Arthur Andersen and the company’s board members, seeking documents about the high-flying energy company’s contacts with the Bush administration on energy policy.
But after the start of the Iraq War, Lieberman began to side more with the Bush administration, a pattern that has continued since the Democrats regained control of Congress in 2007. Lieberman backed away from promises in 2006 that he would dig into the Homeland Security Department’s inept handling of Hurricane Katrina.
When Phillips was asked whether Lieberman new stand might lead to complaints that he had become too cozy with the White House, Phillips responded: “The senator is an independent Democrat and answers only to the people who elected him to office and to his own conscience.”
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