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  Arlen Specter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Specter won the election and was reelected in 1986, 1992, 1998 and 2004.
Specter is notoriously abrasive, and earned the nickname "Snarlin' Arlen" among his foes on Capitol Hill and in the public.
Specter, through a feud with Senator Harry Reid on the floor of the Senate, his position as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and his opposition to a new budget plan proposed by the Bush administration, has emerged as a nationally recognized figure from his previous, more taciturn role in the public eye.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arlen_Specter   (1657 words)

  
 Arleln Specter
Arlen Specter(R-PA) is referred to as a moderate even though he received an 80% scorecard from Christian Coalition.
After a bruising primary which Specter won by a narrow margin, he returned to the Senate Juciciary Committee where he was next in line to assume the chairmanship.
After that Specter promised that he would support all of Bush's nominations, and he would support a move by the theocratic right to end the practice of filibusters in the Senate.
www.theocracywatch.org /specter.htm   (277 words)

  
 Letters: Surveilling Arlen Specter - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arlen Specter will leave a legacy of spineless submission to his friends in the Bush government.
Specter made it possible for the Murderer to escape to France (the land of Freedom Fries, where Asylum would be granted); I never did receive a reply, but then again, I am merely an American Citizen and not a Resident of Pennsylvania.
Arlen Specter is a wily old fraud who has posed as a Moderate Republican Who Places Respect for the Constitution Above Party Loyalty for his entire career.
letters.salon.com /news/feature/2006/07/26/specter/view   (1300 words)

  
 Concern About Arlen Specter Comes Too Late   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Back in April of this year, the liberal Senator Specter was in the political fight of his life when he was challenged by a genuine pro- life conservative by the name of Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania's Republican primary election.
Specter was in line to sit as the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In the next place, should a genuine pro-life nominee be sent to the Senate, Arlen Specter would never allow him or her to be approved, and President Bush knew that when he campaigned for Specter.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/november2004/091104arlenspecter.htm   (731 words)

  
 Arlen Specter - "Bork" him
In April 2004, Senator Arlen Specter was in the fight of his life, being challenged by a conservative Pro-Life congressman Patrick Toomey.
Arlen Specter then went to the White House, asked for and received support from the President and from the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum.
Specter barely squeaked by in the Pennsylvania primary, defeating Toomey by 17,200 votes.
www.intellectualconservative.com /article3932.html   (1690 words)

  
 Biography: Arlen Specter
Specter was appointed assistant district attorney of Philadelphia in 1959.
Specter was the man closely associated with the lone gunman theory.
Specter began by assuring me that he was simply trying 'to find out what happened.' Nevertheless, in short order, any hope that Senator Specter would transcend the political was dashed.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKspecter.htm   (2326 words)

  
 New Judiciary Committee chairman Specter lets critics talk more, questions Patriot Act
Raising the gavel with a grin, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter opened his first hearing Thursday by allowing more criticism of the Bush administration than his predecessor and by questioning some of the Patriot Act's police powers.
With his changes, questions and comments, Specter proclaimed his independence and said he expected the same from Alberto Gonzales, President Bush's nominee to be attorney general.
Specter wore a bandage on his nose from the removal of pre-cancerous tissue but was in good humor, accepting congratulations from numerous senators during the hearing.
www.infowars.com /articles/us/specter_questions_patriot_act.htm   (340 words)

  
 Arlen Specter - Wonkette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Thanks to Arlen Specter using his “serious face” in negotiations with the White House, a secret court is now allowed to put it’s quarter in the slot and get a 30 second peek at the steamy domestic spying program.
Arlen Specter announced today that the administration has tentatively agreed to let the secret FISA court do a “one-time review” of the illegal NSA domestic spying program that has been in operation for years and will continue to be in operation indefinitely.
Specter, who is an ass, is voting to send the gay marriage bill to the rest of the Senate, despite his adamant opposition to it and his knowledge that it doesn’t stand a chance.
www.wonkette.com /politics/arlen-specter   (3575 words)

  
 Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania's senior U.S. Senator, chairs the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and is a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Government Affairs Committee.
A former prosecutor and investigator, Senator Specter led the Veterans Affairs Committee investigation in1999 of Gulf War Illness (from possible exposure to chemical weapons) and in 1995 led the investigation of the killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, which prompted changes in FBI and ATF policy.
Arlen Specter was born to immigrant parents in Wichita, KS, on Feb. 12, 1930, and grew up in the small town of Russell, KS.
www.us-israel.org /jsource/biography/specter.html   (459 words)

  
 Arlen Specter
When Arlen Specter was a young lawyer, he was appointed as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, the government body investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Specter's cross-examination of Anita Hill made great television, during the hearings on Clarence Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court.
Specter is peripherally connected to the infamous Unicorn Killer, Ira Einhorn, who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death in 1977, then left her corpse to rot in a trunk in his closet.
www.nndb.com /people/323/000023254   (433 words)

  
 Arlen Specter - SourceWatch
Arlen Specter is the senior Senator from Pennsylvania.
Specter then met with many conservative Republican Senators, and based on assurances he gave them, he was recommended for the Judiciary Committee's chairmanship in late 2004.
On July 26, 2006, Specter introduced legislation to challenge President George W. Bush's use of Presidential signing statements, which have asserted his intentions not to enforce certain provisions of laws that he believes overstep his authority or interpretation of the Constitution.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Arlen_Specter   (1547 words)

  
 CNN.com - Specter:  'I'm pro-choice ...  But I don't make the decisions' - Nov 8, 2004
Interviewed on CNN's "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics," Specter, who is considered a moderate on the issue, said he has supported judicial nominees in the past who do not agree with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v.
He joins us now, Sen. Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania who is in line to become chairman of the judiciary committee.
SPECTER: Well, I think that it is difficult because it is a longstanding rule and very distant line, Judy.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/08/judy.specter   (1235 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Specter promised to block Bush judges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arlen Specter promised to block pro-life and "extremist" judges appointed by President Bush, apparently contradicting claims he is making now amid fierce opposition to his becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Specter, who says he joined the GOP in his first election race in 1965 because it offered more support than the Democrats, has a lifetime rating of 43 out of 100 from the American Conservative Union.
Specter then explained how the substantial help he received from Bush and Santorum in the primary, which he won by just 1 percent, related to his stances on issues.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41378   (1074 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Opinion: That ol' leftie, Arlen Specter
"Arlen Specter is pro-choice the way Louisiana is French," says Elizabeth Cavendish of NARAL Pro-Choice America, which gave him a 21 on its 100-point scorecard.
Specter is a flaming leftie compared to the newest Republicans on the block like Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator-elect who said that doctors who perform abortions deserve the death penalty.
President Bush defended Specter in the Pennsylvania primary, saying he is "a little bit independent-minded sometimes" but "a firm ally when it matters most." I fear that's exactly right.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2002094949_goodman19.html   (755 words)

  
 Senator Arlen Specter - A Real Creep - Let's Get Rid of this Guy
Senator Arlen Specter went from mildly obxnious to downright disgusting and objectionable yesterday when he had the audacity to suggest that the cruise missile attack on a chemical weapons plant in Sudan and a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan was a ploy by the President to divert attention from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said he, too, wonders about the timing - and noted the strike came the same day that news reports were quoting Clinton aides as eager for him to act presidential to distract from Sexgate.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was only slightly softer in questioning Clinton's air strikes in Afghanistan and the Sudan, insisting: "I'm not going to suggest ulterior motives," but adding, "I especially want to know the reason for doing it now.
www.ishipress.com /specter.htm   (646 words)

  
 Think Progress » Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA),   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Specter is pushing 3 NSA measures that will legalize it and retroactively provide cover for the WHite House.
Specter is the one who should be leading the charge on impeachment after how bad the GOP and Bush tried to push him out in 04.
Specter is a good Senator who speaks his mind, no matter what the official GOP mantra is. He’s not afraid of indepedence.
thinkprogress.org /2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa   (2953 words)

  
 Power Line: A Middle Ground on Arlen Specter
And I entirely agree that what Specter did, in warning President Bush as to what judges he may or may not appoint, and implicitly threatening to torpedo any who do not meet Specter's litmus test, was outrageous and unacceptable.
Specter's lack of loyalty would be appalling even if President Bush had not helped to save the Senator's seat by supporting him in a tough primary fight.
Specter likely will support conservative nominees, though maybe not always the first choice, as he has during the past four years and (mostly) before that.
www.powerlineblog.com /archives/008558.php   (1515 words)

  
 Arlen Specter Keeps Battling - CBS News
Specter has undergone two major medical procedures in the past dozen years; he had a brain tumor removed in 1993 and underwent a double-bypass in 1998.
Specter claimed that Myers has at least 58 votes in the full Senate, two shy of the 60 needed to break a filibuster.
Specter pointed out that the problem started in the Reagan years when Democrats were in control of Congress; then it escalated during President Clinton's second term when the Republicans took over the Senate.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/24/politics/main676366.shtml   (786 words)

  
 Arlen Specter: Cave Man at Pandagon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arlen Specter’s approach modifies his earlier position that the NSA eavesdropping program, which targets international telephone calls and e-mails in which one party is suspected of links to terrorists, must be subject to supervision by the secret court set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Another part of the Specter bill would grant blanket amnesty to anyone who authorized warrantless surveillance under presidential authority, a provision that seems to ensure that no one would be held criminally liable if the current program is found illegal under present law.
Specter is more of a lickspittle court jester wannabe, who briefly makes sharp (if not very bright) comments before doing his bosses’ bidding.
pandagon.net /2006/06/10/arlen-specter-cave-man   (858 words)

  
 Key GOP senator warns Bush on court choices - Politics - MSNBC.com
Arlen Specter, fresh from winning a fifth term in Pennsylvania, also said Wednesday that the current Supreme Court now lacks legal “giants” on the bench.
Legal scholar Dennis Hutchinson said Specter’s message to the White House appears to be “a way of asserting his authority” as he prepares to chair the Judiciary Committee when Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is term-limited from keeping the post next year.
While Specter is a loyal Republican — Bush endorsed him in a tight Pennsylvania GOP primary — he routinely crosses party lines to pass legislation and counts a Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as one of his closest friends.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6405485   (793 words)

  
 CNN.com - Conservative leader targets Specter - Nov 7, 2004
Dobson said he was also soured on Specter by the senator's support for embryonic stem cell research and his opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of conservative Robert Bork in 1987.
Specter said he has supported all of Bush's nominees, as well as Rehnquist, who has opposed Roe v.
Specter, the only pro-abortion-rights Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said his opponents are the same people who tried to defeat him in the primary.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/07/specter.judiciary/index.html   (1082 words)

  
 Arlen Specter's Stem Cell Battle - CBS News
Specter's latest fight is for embryonic stem cell research -- a longtime cause of his that has suddenly become very personal with the diagnosis of his own cancer.
Specter argues that leftover embryos in fertility clinics should be made available for medical research funded by the government.
Arlen Specter, R-Penn., is joining the push for stem cell research.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/06/03/eveningnews/main699633.shtml   (626 words)

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