According to the official reports, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman Thursday introduced a bipartisan bill that would revoke Americans' citizenship for helping terrorists.

It was indicated by the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs that the legislation isn't a front-burner issue with President Barack Obama or anyone else in the administration.

Gibbs said, "I have not heard anybody inside the administration that's been supportive of that idea."

Joining Lieberman, Ind.-Conn., in introducing the Terrorist Expatriation Act were freshman Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Reps. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and Charlie Dent, R-Pa.

It was also reported that since 1940 the State Department has had authority to revoke citizenship of anyone who enters or serves in another country's armed forces that are engaged in hostilities with the United States. His bill would expand it "to account for the enemy we are fighting today" by allowing the State Department to revoke the citizenship of an American citizen "who affiliates with a foreign terrorist organization or who fights against our country," Lieberman said in a statement on his Web site.

Under the bill, anyone the State Department goes after would have the right to appeal to the department and to federal district court.

He was introducing the bill because of the "increasing frequency" of U. S. citizens "inspired or recruited by violent Islamist ideology (who) plan and execute attacks right here in the United States," Lieberman further added.

Lieberman also said, "I believe, and I think most Americans would agree, that joining an Islamist terrorist group that is committed to attacking America and killing Americans is inconsistent with being a U. S. citizen. Those who join such groups join our enemy and should no longer be entitled to the rights and privileges of U. S. citizenship, including the rights and privileges of having a U. S. passport that can be used as a tool to wage terror against America."
(With Inputs from Agencies)