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thehill.com - 14 hours ago
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The Senate healthcare bill presents a tricky political
challenge to the only two Senate Dems to have...
signed anti-tax pledges. Read more...
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Nelson, Specter must wrestle with anti-tax pledge in ...
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lawprofessors.typepad.com - 3 days ago
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With the introduction last week of a bill
in the House to overturn Ashcroft v. Iqbal and...
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombley, the movement among plaintiffs' and open-courts advocates to re-set the pleading standard in federal courts is gaining momentum....
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Movement Grows to Undo Iqbal, (Re)Open Access to Federal ...
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Nelson, Specter must wrestle with anti-tax pledge in health debate…
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GrassrootsPA.com - 5 days ago
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Specter Sestak matchup looks to be ‘unusually personal’…
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Specter Sestak matchup looks to be ‘unusually personal’…
cqpolitics.com - 5 days ago
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Most Washington, D.C., insiders know former Rep. Pat
Toomey, R-Pa. , as a stalwart conservative. As the...
former president of the anti-tax Club for Growth, Toomey often made it his mission to defeat Republican members who did not meet his group’s ...
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Is Toomey Edging to the Center?
youtube.com - 5 days ago
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Sarah Palin's missing chapter.Learn More at http://TheRealSpecter2010.com/GoingRogueIn 2010,
Arlen Specter is campaigning hard for himself, but in...
2008, the ...
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Arlen Inspecter #4 - Going Rogue (video)
therealspecter2010.com - 5 days ago
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In 2010, Arlen Specter is campaigning hard for
himself, but in 2008, the Real Arlen Specter campaigned...
hard for someone else: Sarah Palin. He appeared with her at rallies in Pennsylvania and told national media that she had the potential to be ...
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Going Rogue's Missing Chapter | The Real Arlen Specter ...
article.nationalreview.com - 5 days ago
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T he core of the tumult in current
public discussion is the whipsaw between those who dread...
inflation and those who fear a relapse into economic decline and are aroused about health care. It took the former administration (but the same Federal ...
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The Specter of Default -- By: Conrad Black
thehill.com - 6 days ago
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Republican senators went on the offensive against the
Democratic healthcare initiative the morning after the bill moved...
forward.
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GOP senators unload on health legislation the morning after
GrassrootsPA.com - 6 days ago
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Specter & Casey vote to advance health care
legislation…...
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Specter & Casey vote to advance health care legislation…
latimes.com - 7 days ago
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The Democrat has arguably the hardest-working staff on
Capitol Hill scrambling to meet requests from constituents, lobbyists...
and the media. Now he wants to beat Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator. > ...
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Rep. Joe Sestak trying to outrun Sen. Arlen Specter
thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 8 days ago
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Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter said Thursday he would
not support any troop increase to Afghanistan and predicted...
a troop increase announcement would meet a cold reception on Capitol Hill. "We ought not to add troops to Afghanistan, I ...
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Specter: Big troop request would meet "cold" reception ...
thehill.com - 8 days ago
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Democrats will get the 60 votes needed to
start debate on healthcare reform, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)...
predicted today. "Getting 60 votes is never easy, but I believe we'll get to 60 votes," he told MSNBC. "I think we'll get it started." Specter ...
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Specter predicts successful (initial) cloture vote
epgn.com - 8 days ago
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U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter made headlines earlier this
year when he announced that he was switching the...
“R” after his name to a “D,” and he was again in the headlines late last month when he declared that he had also shifted his position on an LGBT ...
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washingtonindependent.com - 9 days ago
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On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen.
Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential...
addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought not to add troops in Afghanistan,” Specter said, adding that he questioned “even staying” ...
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Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan « ...
GrassrootsPA.com - 11 days ago
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Tracey Specter steps down from Republican Committee of
Lower Merion & Narberth…...
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Tracey Specter steps down from Republican Committee of ...
thehill.com - 15 days ago
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Healthcare reform is by no means "dead on
arrival" in the U.S. Senate, despite some lawmakers' insistence...
otherwise, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) stressed on Thursday. Although Senate Democrats have yet to finalize their bill -- and it remains unclear ...
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Specter: Healthcare not 'dead on arrival' in Senate
pa2010.com - 16 days ago
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Yeakel endorses Sestak Yeakel endorses Sestak The Democratic Party’s...
candidate against Arlen Specter from 1992 endorsed his latest opponent Thursday, saying that Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) has the “character and ...
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Yeakel endorses Sestak
feedproxy.google.com - 16 days ago
blogs.cqpolitics.com - 19 days ago
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The Democrat narrowly defeated by Arlen Specter in
the 1992 Senate race is still against him despite...
the party switch. Lynn Yeakel is scheduled to endorse Sestak Nov. 12 in Philadelphia. A little-known businesswoman at the time, Yeakel challenged ...
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Been There, Endorsing Joe: Yeakel Sides With Sestak Over ...
legaltimes.typepad.com - 23 days ago
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Sen. 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 today that the justices haven't exactly been...
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Note to Justices: Specter Saw You on TV
huffingtonpost.com - 24 days ago
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Just like the day before, only one Republican
showed up for the Senate's climate change hearing Wednesday...
morning -- but not to debate. Republicans are boycotting the Environment and Public Works Committee hearings, blocking action by exploiting a ...
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Inhofe Shows Up To Climate Hearing, Refuses To Discuss ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 24 days ago
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My hunch is that this isn't an entirely
good-faith reading of my post on primary challenges, but...
to be clear: It can be the case that party activists were right to challenge Joe Lieberman and Arlen Specter and that those primary challenges pushed ...
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Primary challenges
seminal.firedoglake.com - 24 days ago
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Ezra Klein thinks that the reason Joe Lieberman
is an unprincipled opportunist is not because he was...
always an unprincipled opportunist and Democrats in Connecticut wanted to replace him. No, it’s because those foolish liberals made him go ...
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Klein on How Lieberman Went Bad: It’s All Jane’s Fault
voices.washingtonpost.com - 25 days ago
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I'm not terribly interested in the outcomes of
today's elections. I imagine McConnell will beat Deeds. Corzine...
might edge out Christie. But the story of a disliked governor who managed to hold onto his seat by mocking his opponent's waistline isn't ...
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How to lose by winning
boomantribune.com - 25 days ago
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boomantribune.com —
It's odd that more people are talking about
a special election to the House of Representatives in...
upstate New York than are talking about the governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia. I guess it is because the special election has become symbolic ...
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What NY-23 Can Tell Us
boomantribune.com - 26 days ago
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I guess Lieberman is going to run for
reelection as a Republican. Even if he backs down...
on the cloture vote, he's basically burned his bridges. What's weird is how closely Arlen Specter's recent moves to left parallel Lieberman's to the right. They're ...
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Ships That Pass in the Night
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
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After dropping out of the NY-23 race on
Saturday, Dede Scozzafava endorsed her Democratic and not her...
Conservative Party opponent who has the backing of Republicans following her departure. Kind of proves what everyone has been saying all along doesn't it? That she is a RINO (supported card ...
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Scuzzy Flavor Endorses Democratic Opponent
GrassrootsPA.com - 28 days ago
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Specter denies he’s flip-flopping on major issues…
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Specter denies he’s flip-flopping on major issues…
GrassrootsPA.com - 29 days ago
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Specter’s ‘Free Flow of Information Act’ shield law
could apply to freelancers, bloggers…...
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Specter’s ‘Free Flow of Information Act’ shield law ...
thehill.com - 29 days ago
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The latest version of a Senate bill that
would shield reporters from revealing their sources extends legal...
protections to freelance authors and bloggers, the bill's sponsors hinted Friday. That landmark change -- and a series of additional tweaks -- ...
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Revised Senate shield law could apply to freelancers, ...
