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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email this author | Email this entry |
Sen. Joe Lieberman was right on time last week when kicked off a Senate committee debate about global warming on the first day of Hanukkah. The eight-day celebration, he reminded his audience, dates to an ancient victory for Jewish freedom fighters and commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem.
The miracle of Hanukkah was that a single day’s supply of oil for the light in the temple continued to burn for eight days.
That, Lieberman told a hearing room packed with environmentally savvy followers of his global warming bill, “was a divinely inspired sustainable energy program.”
jmulligan@belo-dc.com
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