Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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We'll start hearings at noon on 9 January,
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What is your thinking on the jurisprudence of U.S. v. Lopez and U.S. v. Morrison, which overturned almost 60 years of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause?
What I do know is that we're going to do it right, and we're not necessarily going to do it fast,
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We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,
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It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
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It continues to be my hope that both leaders would liberate their caucuses from party-line voting,
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was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.
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In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.
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Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.
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Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public,
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You did something you didn't understand and you got caught up in a web, ... You tried to hide it ...
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We don't have enough in this questionnaire, the answers so far, to go forward,
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What you've had here . . . is not a rush to judgment -- it's a stampede to judgment,
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We are not going to budge, it is our prerogative on the power of the purse and we're not going to yield on that point. So there is a stalemate, ... We proposed to send the a bill which has more on education funding, more on health funding, but that one point, we think we're right and we're going to urge him to sign the bill.