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
committed conducting dignified fair
I am committed to conducting a full, fair and dignified hearing.
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I believe the vote will come during the week of September 26. That's when the floor leader will bring up ... the matter. I would suspect that we'd vote by Thursday the 29th, ... Face the Nation.
believe rolling value
I believe there is value in rolling up the score,
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I believe there is substantial doubt as to how he would apply fundamental principles of constitutional law.
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I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination. I say that because, bubbling just below the surface was a lot of frustration in the hearing that we just concluded.
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I am very anxious to get this hearing into the hearing room, where we have a stenographer and we have a witness and we have orderly procedures, ... and take the proceedings away from the back rooms and away from the conference calls and away from the corridors and do it like the Constitution says it ought be done.
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But there's no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there?
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I wouldn't support a bill that impinges on civil liberties.
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If we give up the power of the purse, which is what is at issue here, then it really reduces the Congress to the state of being a eunuch,
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If we find that there was any quid pro quo, money for pardons, then of course that's a criminal activity and we'll pursue that,
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If the Senate were to reject the treaty, then it would be highly publicized worldwide. It would be an open excuse for countries like India and Pakistan to continue nuclear testing which I think is very undesirable, destabilizing that area of the world,
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I'd like the specifics in writing, focusing on why the people whose information was breached couldn't have been notified earlier. Those people are all at risk, and you have a duty to notify them at the earliest possible moment.
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On the balance of her answers, they're incomplete,
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Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.