WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden says a Republican congressman’s outburst during President Barack Obama’s health-care speech Wednesday night “demeaned the institution.”

South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie” after Obama said extending health care to all Americans would not mean insuring illegal immigrants.

House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, a fellow South Carolinian, said Wilson’s heckling was more damaging to South Carolina’s reputation than the exploits of Republican Governor . Mark Sanford, who admitted to having an extramarital affair with an Argentinian woman.  Read more here

SC Speaker urges Sanford to resign

Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday, Biden said the incident made him “embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love.”  Read full story here

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S.C. Rep. Joe Wilson Shouts, ‘You lie’ at Obama

• Biden: Health care bill may be in by Thanksgiving

• Lawmakers condemn ‘you lie’ outburst

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