Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

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Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Would he stay with the Dems, as he insisted he would, and become the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee?

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He'd remain the senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and he'd get to hold on to his ranking on other assignments.

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