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      <excerpt>...Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, a state John McCain won last fall; Chris Dodd in Connecticut, hampered by a mortgage controversy; Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, the party-switching former Republican; and Barbara Boxer in California, a frequent GOP target..</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Cardin (D) 	Barbara A. Mikulski (D) West Virginia&#8212;Robert C. Byrd (D)	John D. Rockefeller (D) Pennsylvania&#8212;Bob Casey (D)	Arlen Specter (R)	 U.S. House of Representatives All House members may be reached at 202-224-3121.  The mailing address for House</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has been a longtime advocate of televising sessions of the U.S. Supreme Court, a quest that has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears across First Street NE.   But Specter noted Thursday that the justices haven't exactly been camera shy. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and the partisan antics cast a pall over the legislation &#8212; one of Obama's top priorities.  &quot;This is a very good start,&quot; Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., said. &quot;It is regrettable that we could not move forward in a more constructive way.&quot;  Specter said the v</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... WELNA: Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, himself a Republican until becoming a Democrat earlier this year, backed up Boxer.  Senator ARLEN SPECTER (Democrat, Pennsylvania): We have a practice in the world's greatest deliberative body of disagreeing without</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...cannot offer amendments. This is a very good start, but as the chair has acknowledged it is a start and only a start,&quot; said Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. &quot;It is regrettable that we could not move forward in a more constructive way.&quot; Specter said that the vo</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...offer amendments. This is a very good start, but as the chair has acknowledged it is a start and only a start, said Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. It is regrettable that we could not move forward in a more constructive way.    Specter said that the vote woul</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...five nominations Wednesday, and when it will act is unclear. Judge Vanaskie was introduced by longtime committee member Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who talked about the judge's &quot;15 illustrious years&quot; on the federal bench. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., whose fat</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...D.C. -- November 4, 2009 -- Today, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) commented on the passage of the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act. The bill provides 14 weeks of additional Federal-State Unemployment Insurance Program (UI) benefits to al</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Joe Sestak (D), who is running in the Keystone State&amp;#39;s Democratic primary against Sen. Arlen Specter, a devout Phillies fan. &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ll honor any champion &#8212; as long as its not the Mets,&amp;quot; Sestak said in explanation of his &amp;#39;yes&amp;#39; vote. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has been a longtime advocate of televising sessions of the US Supreme Court, a quest that has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears at the high court. But in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Specter noted that ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... Republican leaders and supported by conservative groups. Following the August 2  disruption of a town hall event hosted by Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Health  and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Fox News personalities  repeatedly lauded s</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&#8220;I think the bill could have been improved substantially,&#8221; said Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who voted for the bill but objected to his inability to offer amendments that would help protect his state&amp;#39;s coal and steel interests. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Arlen Specter was grateful for support from George W. Bush and Sen. Rick Santorum, when he faced a tough primary challenge from a real Republican in 2006, then switched parties in 2009, when the majority Democrats had more to offer ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>You rarely see GOP Sen. John Cornyn on the same side of an issue with Democrats like Sens. Chuck Schumer and Russ Feingold. But yesterday they all joined Sen. Arlen Specter in introducing a resolution that Supreme Court proceedings ...</excerpt>
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