Sen. Arlen Specter Forgets Which Team He’s On - AGAIN
"Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) caught the crowd at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner by surprise with his greeting: "I thank the Allegheny Republican Committee for endorsing me for the Democratic nomination." Ten minutes later, Specter concluded his remarks by saying, "Great pleasure to be endorsed by the Allegheny County Republicans, and together we'll win for a victory."
Call Sen. Specter to remind him that he is a Democrat
5/15/2010 12:00 AM
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Nobody is happier about Elena Kagan's nomination than Joe Sestak
"...running in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary against Arlen Specter. That's because while he was still a Republican, Specter voted against Kagan for Solicitor General, even though conservatives like Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) voted to confirm her."
5/10/2010 12:00 AM
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5/10/2010 12:00 AM
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4/9/2010 12:00 AM
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4/8/2010 12:00 AM
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Sen. Specter Trails in Latest Poll
"The Republican candidate, former Rep. Pat Toomey (Pa.), beats both Specter and Specter's primary opponent, Rep. Joe Sestak (D), in a general election matchup."
4/7/2010 12:00 AM
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Sestak and the White House stonewall
'Six weeks ago, Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak confirmed to the Philly press that he had been offered a job by the Obama administration in exchange for dropping his Senate bid against White House-endorsed incumbent Arlen Specter. After first denying any contact with Sestak took place, White House flack Robert Gibbs changed course and admitted a conversation had occurred..."
4/5/2010 12:00 AM
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Justice Dept Should Probe Alleged White House Offer to Rep. Sestak, Legal Experts Say
"Legal experts and government watchdog groups cited five federal laws that would have been violated if a White House official offered Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) an administration job, as Sestak has claimed, in exchange for his dropping his Pennsylvania Democratic primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter ."
3/24/2010 12:00 AM
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Anatomy of a Scandal: The Curious Case of Joe Sestak's Job Offer
"Rare is the Washington scandal where both the accuser and the accused refuse to talk about the charges. But silence has been the norm in the case of Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., who alleges the Obama administration offered the second-term congressman a "high-ranking" job if he would abandon his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa."
3/19/2010 12:00 AM
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Issa accuses WH of 'Nixonian' cover-up
"For weeks, Issa has been suggesting the White House may have broken a law by allegedly offering Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) an administration job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). (Setsak made that claim during a radio interview last month, but hasn't elaborated since then.)"
3/16/2010 12:00 AM
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Video: Issa says WH broke federal law in Sestak job offer
"Rep. Darrell Issa tells Neil Cavuto that he wants a probe into the admission by Rep. Joe Sestak that the White House offered him a cushy executive-branch job if he dropped his campaign against incumbent Democrat Arlen Specter for the Pennsylvania Senate seat. Sestak’s admission on a radio show four weeks ago appears rather conclusive that a quid pro quo existed in the offer, although Sestak has since stopped talking about it. If so, Issa argues, then someone in the White House has broken federal law:"
3/14/2010 12:00 AM
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GOP Lawmaker: White House Job Offer to Sestak Would Have Been a 'Crime'
"A GOP lawmaker says that the White House committed a "crime" if it offered Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak a federal job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa."
3/13/2010 12:00 AM
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2/24/2010 12:00 AM
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Rep. Sestak (D-Pa): White House Offered Me Federal Job to Drop Out of Senate Primary
"Rep. Joe Sestak, who is causing heartburn for Democratic leaders by running against Arlen Specter for a Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, says the White House dangled a federal job in front of him in an attempt to entice him to drop out of the state's Democratic primary, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday."
"But the White House "vociferously" denies Sestak's accusation, which came during a taping on a local Sunday news show. A White House official told Fox News that Sestak is expected to "clarify" the allegation."
2/19/2010 12:00 AM
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RNC Slams Specter for Being 'Rude and Arrogant'
"Seeking to capitalize on Snarlen Arlin's blunder the other day, RNC Co-Chairman Jan Larimer released the following statement:....."
Audio: Specter Tells Bachmann to Act Like a ‘Lady’
1/24/2010 12:00 AM
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1/21/2010 12:00 AM
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The New and Improved Iron Curtain
"Today, freedom-loving people are faced with a second such curtain. It doesn’t exist in Eastern Europe this time, but along the Potomac. On one side, there are despots like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Sunstein, Emanuel, Axelrod, Specter and Conyers. On the other side are those of us who are sick and tired of having ex-community organizers and their left-wing henchmen doing their best to enslave us. They treat the Constitution like toilet paper; they bribe millions of us, including illegal aliens, with cash and free health benefits, while simultaneously bankrupting the rest of us, along with our kids and their kids."
12/26/2009 12:00 AM
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Senate's Chicken Act – Christmas Gift Edition
"Reid did not say flatly that Democrats had decided to drop the proposal for uninsured Americans as young as 55 to purchase coverage under Medicare. But several senators said it appeared inevitable, and liberals sounded resigned to it. "I want to see health care reform," Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said."
"One official said participants at the meeting broke into applause when Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who switched parties earlier in the year, said he had made his move to become the 60th vote for health care."
12/14/2009 12:00 AM
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Nelson, Specter must wrestle with anti-tax pledge in health debate
"The Senate healthcare bill presents a tricky political challenge to Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.), the only two Democrats in the Senate to have signed anti-tax pledges." BR>
"Americans for Tax Reform, the group which persuaded Nelson and Specter to sign the pledge, will press both lawmakers on the issue during next month’s Senate healthcare debate, putting them in an awkward position."
11/28/2009 12:00 AM
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Sens. Alexander, Stabenow, Bond & Specter On Health Care
Sens. Lamar Alexander (D-TN), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Kit Bond (R-Missouri) and Arlen Specter (D-PA) discuss health care in the Senate. The panel discusses mammograms, abortion policy and cutting deficits. The panel also briefly discusses Afghanistan and President Obama's upcoming decision on troop levels.
11/22/2009 12:00 AM
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Flashback: Specter Opposed Government Health Care In 1994
"A new ad from Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Pat Toomey (R) shows Arlen Specter criticizing and bashing then-President Bill Clinton's government-run health care plan in 1994."
8/20/2009 12:00 AM
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“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Specter said
"About 1,500 people waited for hours near Kittanning under the beating sun for the town hall meeting on health care reform. . . . Taunts followed many of his comments. When he said he wouldn’t support a bill that would increase the deficit, many laughed. And when he said he wants to encourage people to stop smoking, one person yelled: “What about Obama smoking?” . .
8/15/2009 12:00 AM
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Senators use Twitter to argue about 'death panels'
"Sens. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) took to Twitter Friday to clash over comments the latter made regarding end-of-life provisions included in healthcare reform legislation."
8/15/2009 12:00 AM
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Pennsylvania Senate: Toomey 48%, Specter 36%
"Uncomfortable town hall meetings are just the tip of the iceberg for Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. He now trails Republican Pat Toomey by double digits in his bid for reelection next year and is viewed unfavorably by a majority of the state’s voters."
8/13/2009 12:00 AM
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Specter: “I don’t have any requirement to be here”
"SPECTER: I’m encouraging constitutional rights. I’m encouraging constitutional rights by coming to Lebanon to talk to my constituents. I could be somewhere else. I don’t get any extra pay — I don’t have any requirement to be here. But for somebody –.."
8/12/2009 12:00 AM
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Specter: Protests not 'representative of America'
"I'm not going to complain about being organized. They have a right to speak," he said, "but I think we have to explain, they're not necessarily representative of America. I think they're vocal. I don't think they're representative."
"Specter said he didn't think people opposed to various health care proposals have a right to disrupt public meetings on the issue."
8/12/2009 12:00 AM
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Sen. Specter Shouted Down Over Health Care
"Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) was shouted down at a health care town hall meeting. The man accused Specter of having his pockets stuffed with money from lobbyists."
8/11/2009 12:00 AM
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8/4/2009 12:00 AM
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PA Poll: Specter's Ratings Plummet- Well GOOD
- Specter 33 %
- Sestak 13 %
- Other 6 %
- Undecided 48 %
6/25/2009 12:00 AM
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6/6/2009 12:00 AM
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5/20/2009 12:00 AM
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4/30/2009 12:00 AM
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White House Cheat Sheet: Sifting Through the Specter Damage
"...Specter has done little to back off his initial assertion that his decision to switch parties was based almost entirely on political calculations and had little to do with ideology..."
5/7/2009 12:00 AM
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Democrats Strip Arlen Specter of Committee Rank
"...The move not only strips the five-term senator of his legislative clout but also hampers his ability to persuade voters ..."
5/6/2009 12:00 AM
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After Specter switch: buyer's remorse?
"...Suddenly Specter’s path to reelection as a Democrat is looking far from certain..."
5/4/2009 12:00 AM
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Do you believe this guy? -Sen. Specter Hints Jack Kemp Died of GOP Agenda
"...If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains..."
5/4/2009 12:00 AM
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Democrat of necessity
Senator Specter, meet your new "friends"
4/30/2009 12:00 AM
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Specter's Defection Could Help Republicans Block a Nominee to Replace Souter
"...That's because the Judiciary Committee, where Specter was the ranking minority member, requires the consent of at least one Republican to end debate and move a nominee to the full Senate for a vote..."
5/1/2009 12:00 AM
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RNC's Steele Agrees With Limbaugh on Specter
Rush Limbaugh - "...Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection from the Republican Party to the Democrats was no loss to the GOP..."
4/30/2009 12:00 AM
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Biden spoke with Specter 14 times
"...Biden has been trying to convince Specter to switch parties for at least the past five years..."
4/28/2009 12:00 AM
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4/28/2009 12:00 AM
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Specter had disavowed a switch
"...In a March 17th interview with The Hill, Specter said he absolutely would not switch parties..."
4/28/2009 12:00 AM
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Specter gives Dems cover on labor bill
"...Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R) decision to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act is a major blow to unions ..."
3/25/2009 12:00 AM
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Specter was the only Republican to support the Employee Free Choice Act
"...unions were hoping he might be the crucial 60th vote needed to overcome an expected GOP filibuster..."
3/24/2009 12:00 AM
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