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| Term Start | Term End | Role | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2010 | Senator | PA | Republican |
| See All 5 Terms | ||||
Committee Membership
- Senate Aging (Special)
- Senate Appropriations
- Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Defense
- Homeland Security
- State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
- Senate Judiciary
- Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
- Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
- Crime and Drugs
- Senate Veterans' Affairs
Most Recent Sponsored Bills
Sponsored Bill Statistics
Recent Voting History
| Bill | Voted |
|---|---|
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S.Con.Res.70 Budget resolution FY2009 On the Motion (Gregg Motion to Instruct Conferees (Discretionary Spending) re: S. Con. Res. 70 ) |
Nay May 15, 2008 |
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S.Con.Res.70 Budget resolution FY2009 On the Motion (Vitter Motion to Instruct Conferees (OCS) re: S. Con. Res. 70 ) |
Aye May 15, 2008 |
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S.Con.Res.70 Budget resolution FY2009 On the Motion (DeMint Motion to Instruct Conferees (China - India) re: S. Con. Res. 70 ) |
Nay May 15, 2008 |
Voting Trends Analysis
- Most often votes with: Sen. Gordon Smith [R, OR]
- Least often votes with: Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
- Democrat most often votes with: Sen. Ken Salazar [D, CO]
- Republican least often votes with: Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
Arlen Specter in the News
May 16, 2008 Arlen Specter has good reason to keep an eye on NFL, Spygate
By Sam Farmer, ON THE NFL Say what you want about Sen. Arlen Specter and his obsession with the New England Patriots' videotaping scandal. ...
May 16, 2008 Maybe Bill Belichick can save CBS News
... things to get off his chest now that former video employee Matt Walsh has had his say with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa. ...
May 16, 2008 The story behind Herald walkthrough article
Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh confirmed this in his meetings this week with the league and Sen. Arlen Specter. An internal investigation by the ...
Arlen Specter in the Blogs
May 17, 2008 Sen. Arlen Specter Demands Investigation of Spying... In The NFL
Threat Level notes that "Arlen Specter, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday demanded an independent investigation into 'Spygate.'" Not the administration's various warrantless eavesdropping programs,
May 17, 2008 Sen. Arlen Specter Demands Investigation of Spying⦠In The NFL
Sometimes, no amount of snark can top the real world. Threat Level. Originally Syndicated via RSS from Techdirt.
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May 17, 2008 After Further Review, the Play Stands
Senator Arlen Specter, however, believes that a further, thorough investigation should be done, if not by the NFL, then by Congress. Based on the newly uncovered evidence and his own conversation with Mr. Walsh, Sen. ...
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Featured Members of Congress
On March 24, 2008 Arlen Specter was featured on the homepage of OpenCongress:
Arlen Specter (R-PA) on Monday called on Congress to cut short its two-week recess to work on economic issues. “I don’t want to interrupt a lot of recess plans, but I don’t think it would do any harm to go back to work on these issues, for Congress to do that,” Specter said. “On the economy, I think more has to be done. It would show that there is concern by the Congress that we’re in this, too.”
Campaign Contributions
Top Contributor: Blank Rome LLP ($201,800)
| Industry | Donation | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Lawyers & Lobbyists | $2,890,450 | 21.0 % |
| Finance/Insur/RealEst | $2,546,071 | 18.5 % |
| Health | $1,762,205 | 12.8 % |
| Misc Business | $1,496,838 | 10.9 % |
| Other | $1,326,661 | 9.6 % |
| Communic/Electronics | $973,892 | 7.1 % |
| Ideology/Single-Issue | $664,611 | 4.8 % |
| Construction | $585,513 | 4.3 % |
| Energy/Nat Resource | $459,653 | 3.3 % |
| Transportation | $328,015 | 2.4 % |
| Agribusiness | $304,088 | 2.2 % |
| Labor | $270,559 | 2.0 % |
| Defense | $151,223 | 1.1 % |
| Total: | $13,759,779 |
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Stay away from Football.
18 and 19 year kids are being killed every day in War.
Maybe you could focus some effort on the kids dying famileys instead of a football team.
I'm sorta disappointed at the Senator for not going after 'W' for not telling the truth about Iraq. I am not disappointed in him for going after 'Good(bad)ell' for letting the 'Pats(ies)' off the hook for cheating.
I have lost confidence in Goodell for being a stand-up Commissioner. He hits, with penalties, the players like they committed murder and lets the Owners and Coaches get away with murder!!!
The Commish. has let the Patsies cheat teams that probably could be SB champs, Rams,Eagles, Panthers. The Rams had a dynasty lost because of the Patsies and they should suffer the same fate!!!
Goodell should put pressure on Patsies owner to force them to:
1.relinquish their rings,
2.force 'Belicheat' to resign and...
3.announce them as forfeits! or...
4.He should resign! The integrity of the game has been lost!
good thinking dipshit
Why is it that no action is being taken on Bill S.1060?
Get off the backside of your butt and do SOMETHING for this country. Rip the environmentalists a new body cavity and get our own oil in our system so we can save the 6.1 TRILLION dollars the arabs are going to reap from this latest increase in a barrel of oil. What must we do to heat our homes? Paying more than 3 bucks a gallon for heating oil is ludicrous because our government can't stand up for us. Give more money to the world, The cost of making ethanol is costing more than it's worth in burning in a car. All that's accomplishing is to drive up the cost of food. Nice going, a real snooker job on congress for this fiasco. Go environmentalists and Al Gore, wreck this country as fast as you can.
If ever there was a time that our economy needed a boost it is NOW. If they continue to ignore the need for an extension on Unemployment we are going to be facing a new mortgage crisis.........All the unemployed who's checks have run out and can't find a job, now defaulting on mortgages also!!!!!! Please wake up and quit denying the seriousness of the economic situation we are in.The housing market bottomed out and we are seeing the trickle down effect of that crisis, everyone can eventually become effected. Please act now before it's too late............
ML Wexford PA
What have you done to make my life bearble? You are investigating the Patriots for taping defensive signals from opposing teams, stated that this may have had something to do with the inept Eagles losing the Super Bowl, all the while letting illegals cash in on my grandkids college tuition, and other goodies they are entitled ????? to. Get off your butt and make some waves in stemming the illegals coming into these United States. I didn't give four years of my life to the U.S. to see people like you turning their backs on LEGAL citizens. I'm angry because the illegals have better rights than I or my siblings and grandchildren. Because of people like you and Kennedy and the rest of the ELITE in Washington we are suffering. We are mad as hell and we won't put up with you bureaucrats much longer. DO SOMETHING WORTH WHILE THAT BENEFITS US for a change.
What have you done to make my life bearble? You are investigating the Patriots for taping defensive signals from opposing teams, stated that this may have had something to do with the inept Eagles losing the Super Bowl, all the while letting illegals cash in on my grandkids college tuition, and other goodies they are entitled ????? to. Get off your butt and make some waves in stemming the illegals coming into these United States. I didn't give four years of my life to the U.S. to see people like you turning their backs on LEGAL citizens. I'm angry because the illegals have better rights than I or my siblings and grandchildren. Because of people like you and Kennedy and the rest of the ELITE in Washington we are suffering. We are mad as hell and we won't put up with you bureaucrats much longer. DO SOMETHING WORTH WHILE THAT BENEFITS US for a change. I sincerely believe you will compeletly ignore this post. May the returns not be with you.
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