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...The Republicans on his committee, especially senators Arlen Specter, Orrin Hatch and Alan Simpson, easily outmanoeuvred him....
...Specter from Pennsylvania, who also grew up in Russell....
...Republican senator Arlen Specter, a former prosecutor, began his interrogation of Ms Hill before a jam-packed room by assuring her he did not intend to be adversarial. That assurance proved hollow....
...“Arlen Specter was always a fighter,” Barack Obama, the president, said in a statement on Sunday....
...Specter of Pennsylvania....
...Mr Romney held Mr Santorum responsible for Barack Obama’s healthcare plan because Mr Santorum once endorsed Arlen Specter, the Republican senator who years later would switch parties and vote for the plan...
...The third, Arlen Specter, defected in terror to the Democrats after endorsing Mr Obama’s 2009 stimulus. Mr Obama has said frustratingly little of what he would do if re-elected....
...Surprisingly, Mr Santorum also defended his decision to back Arlen Specter, the Republican senator in Pennsylvania who later defected to become a Democrat, giving the president’s party the 60th vote it needed...
...“They have succeeded in terrifying the moderates – and even conservatives who are not far enough to the right,” says Arlen Specter, a former Pennsylvania senator who was a longtime target of the group and...
...The candidates – both Harvard graduates – are competing to fill the shoes of longtime senator Arlen Specter, who controversially abandoned the Republican party to become a Democrat to bolster his chances...
...Blanche Lincoln is not the only Democrat facing a challenge from the left on Tuesday – Arlen Specter faces an uphill battle in Pennsylvania to hold on to his Senate seat....
...Or, as Arlen Specter, Democratic senator co-sponsoring the bill, said....
...In Pennsylvania, Joe Sestak, a sitting congressman and a former navy vice-admiral, defeated incumbent senator Arlen Specter, who defected from the Republican party to the Democrats last year to boost his...
...Joe Sestak won the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, denying Arlen Specter – a national figure who defected from the Republicans last year and was backed by Mr Obama – a chance for a sixth Senate term....
...This was borne out in Pennsylvania, where Joe Sestak, a sitting congressman and a former Navy vice-admiral, ousted incumbent Arlen Specter, taking 54 per cent of the vote to Mr Specter's 46 per cent....
...Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, voted against for procedural reasons while Arlen Specter, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, failed to make it back to the chamber after his humiliating defeat...
...Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, accused her of “dancing” around their questions, while Arlen Specter, the Republican-turned-Democrat, voiced frustration at the lack of substantive answers....
...In Arkansas and Pennsylvania, moderate Democratic incumbents Blanche Lincoln and Arlen Specter were trying to fend off challenges from the left....
...Statement by Senator Arlen Specter April 28, 2009 I have been a Republican since 1966....
...The defeat of Arlen Specter in the same state is open to endless interpretation, but he is 80 and had been a Republican almost all his Senate life before switching parties to save his own job, reasons enough...
...“It is important that the US not stand idly as China infringes on the free flow of information,” said Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Democrat....
...Others, such as Arlen Specter, 79, the formerly Republican and now Democratic senator for Pennsylvania, have been accused of supporting euthanasia for the elderly....
...Moving Democrats closer to a 60-vote Senate majority that would allow them to break Republican procedural roadblocks, Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter said he has switched parties and will begin...
...Half way through his fourth healthcare “town hall” meeting this week, Arlen Specter, the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, made a weak stab at humour....
...So far Mr Obama’s efforts have failed to net any solid results barring the votes of three lonely Republicans for last year’s $787bn (€573bn, £498bn) stimulus bill – one of whom, Arlen Specter, then promptly...
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