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Specter condemned Jim Jeffords' party switch in 2001

 

Published 4/28/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

When the Vermont Republican became an independent, Specter lost a committee chairmanship in the Senate's resulting power shift. An angry Specter proposed a ban on such party switches. > When a Senate Republican left his party in 2001, elevating the Democrats to majority status, one member of the GOP was especially vocal about his displeasure: Arlen Specter. (link)

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