Senator Arlen Specter
Democrat • Pennsylvania • 5th Term • Sworn In 1981
- 114 Sponsored Bills (Ranks 3 of 100) 0 Made Into Law (Ranks 32 of 100)
- 230 Co-Sponsored Bills (Ranks 21 of 100) 4 Made Into Law (Ranks 31 of 100)
- Most often votes with:
- Sen. Jon Tester
- Sen. Susan Collins
- Least often votes with:
- Sen. Claire McCaskill
- Sen. Thomas Coburn
- Votes with party 78%
- Abstains: 4%
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Specter is getting back some Senat...
...- Sen. Arlen Specter is getting back some of the seniority he lost when he switched from Republican to Democratic last year. The Pitts...
Specter to raise cash from Christi...
Pennsylvania Republicans want Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter to cancel a fundraiser that CNN founder and noted loudmouth Ted Turn...
Sestak episode underscores Washing...
...if the congressman’s claims are true, they ought be viewed as an effort by Obama administration officials to pay back Sen. Arlen Spect...
Workers protest to save their jobs
...vote near, the employees went to Scranton and Clarks Summit to meet with staffers in the offices of U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter, D-Philad...
5 must-see C-Span videos for polit...
...the end; Babbitt finished in single digits in Iowa and New Hampshire and dropped out of the race.) Click here for clip 5. Arlen Sp...
Specter Holds 11 Point Lead Over S...
...the former congressman and onetime head of the conservative Club for Growth, has big leads among likely voters over Sen. Arlen Specter...
RE: Arlen Specter
is the Arlen Specter town hall attendee who told him he has "awakened a sleeping giant." She can be followed at twitter/katyabram.com an...
RE: Arlen Specter
Sen. Arlen Specter racked up another union endorsement Monday as the Pennsylvania chapter of the Service Employees ...
RE: Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Jeff Bingaman (DN.M.). Hayley Tsukayama ...
US lawmakers attack China ahead of...
...connect with voters afraid of losing work to foreign competitors. "They take our markets and take our jobs," Democratic Sen. Arlen Spe...
Blog Coverage
Collecting My Thoughts: White Hous...
With a senior Democratic United States Senator (Arlen Specter, March 12, 2010), a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, now ...
Common Sense Political Thought » B...
I can work to unseat my sleazy senator (Arlen Specter), but it will have been his vote — after President Bush and then-Senator Rick Santo...
Earthquake shakes Cuba; no reports...
U.S. foreign aid officials appear complacent as a half-billion-dollar recipient of American aid tries to shake down a mostly American-own...
JobsGate: Obama Stonewalling Conti...
(Sestak, usually considered a supporter of the president, is running against Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) for the Democratic nomination f...
New England Catholic: Misprision o...
February 18, 2010 -- Philadelphia TV anchor Larry Kane reports that on his just taped Comcast show, he had asked Democratic Congressman J...
BREAKDOWN OF AMERICA: The Specter ...
On March 12, Sen. Arlen Specter, who is a former Philadelphia District Attorney and formerly chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ...
NEPArtisan » NEPArtisan Interview ...
NEPArtisan Interview with Senator Specter. Tom Borthwick | March 20, 2010 | 3:30 pm. Yesterday, I had the pleasure to sit down with Senat...
Election Advantage: Rasmussen PA-S...
Sen. Arlen Specter (D) 40% Fmr. Rep. Pat Toomey (R) 42% Rep. Joe Sestak (D) 37% Specter seems to be polling in the same general range in ...
Anatomy of a scandal: The curious ...
But silence has been the norm in the case of Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., who alleges the Obama administration offered the second-term congres...
Nancy & Kevin; Arlen & Chris, But ...
“I'm reasonably optimistic,” said U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, former Republican, now a Democrat, about the bill's passage. He told Nancy ...
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U.S. Congress - Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania (D)

