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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It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.
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Judge Roberts had expressed his appreciation to have the introductions early. He said the maximum time of the children's staying power was five minutes. And that is certainly understandable,
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I think it is inappropriate to ask him head-on if he's going to overturn Roe, but I believe that there are many issues close to the issue, like his respect for precedent, ... Meet the Press.
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I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,
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I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly, as to what has happened, because of all of the conference calls and all of the discussions, which are alleged in the back room, ... We're looking into them.
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I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly.
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We may not finish before Thanksgiving. We're going to have to take whatever time we need. We do not have much paperwork. We do not have much of a record.
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Had that information been shared with the FBI, which was trying to get it, 9/11 might have been prevented,
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He has picked a candidate and our job is to determine not whether she's the best qualified, but whether she's qualified.
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He might wait until the following Monday, but seeing how President Bush operates, I think it will be sooner rather than later.
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There is a keen interest in many quarters on concluding before Thanksgiving , and that's a fine target if it can be accomplished, ... But we're going to do it right. We're not going to do it fast.
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There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, ... We are going to open up the hearings there.
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There is no firmly established rule as to how much a nominee must say to be confirmed, ... While I personally consider it inappropriate to ask a nominee how he would vote on a specific matter likely to come before the court, senators may ask whatever they choose and the nominee is similarly free to respond as he chooses.
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resist, if not refuse to confirm, Supreme Court nominees who refuse to answer questions on fundamental issues.