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Published 4/29/2009 by By CARL HULSE and ADAM NAGOURNEY at NYT > Politics
The decision by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to switch parties potentially presents Democrats with a 60th vote and the power to break Senate filibusters.
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