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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The hearings will be focused on how she approaches constitutional issues, her capacity to handle them,
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A good part of what I'm talking about as chaotic is not the White House, ... What I'm referring to are all of the forces which are at work out here commanding media attention and commanding public attention.
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And I think he may have a little different view about television, something that I have advocated for more than a decade in the court, ... He's a new generation.
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the chief justice is not going to leave, because I think that every day he goes to work knowing he has very important work to do.
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the underlying decision in Roe. v Wade, but I'm sure it will be a subject of discussion at the hearings.
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This hearing comes at a time of turbulent partisanship in the United States Senate - turbulent partisanship.
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A key statement by the president related to 60 stem cell lines, now expanded to 64, ... But in the intervening several weeks, it has become apparent that many of those are not really viable or robust or usable.
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You don't have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.
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all reports, memoranda or policy statements prepared, produced with your participation, or produced under your guidance during the time in which you served in any public office, including ... any of your positions in the White House.
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You can't have the administration and a select number of members alter the law.
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You can't open up the paper or turn on the TV without hearing (about) public concern about the Patriot Act,
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I do not believe, personally, that it is appropriate to punish him (by forcing him to sit out the rest of the season). He's not committed a crime, he's committed a breach of contract. And what they're doing against him is vindictive.
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I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body -- when responsibilities come to the Senate -- and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach which is bipartisan and nonpartisan in nature,
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I believe Republicans as well as Democrats have an obligation to find out about Judge Roberts' jurisprudence, and there ought not to be a political tilt,