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
compromise rule
I don't want to rule out a compromise,
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I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate's determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress' constitutional role,
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I consider it appropriate to question him as to his views on ... following precedents.
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(I) continue to believe that censure is really not worth a tinker's damn. We are going to be listening to evidence to decide what to do in a fair and impartial, judicious way.
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I don't like to put it on an appropriations bill, but we waited long enough, ... fall-back position which I have avoided up 'til now.
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I don't like it much. I have to have a large clothespin over my nose but I'm voting for it.
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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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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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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,