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
dignified hearing judge precedent questions respect thinking views
is to have a dignified hearing which will give insights into Judge Roberts' jurisprudence, and to get an idea of his thinking on questions like respect for precedent ... and his views on congressional authority.
analysis people present thinking votes
My analysis is that we have 62 votes at the present time, and we've got about 15 more people who are thinking it over,
thinking judging independence
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
war cancer thinking
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
country thinking iraq
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
thinking political want
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
thinking government abortion
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
cancer thinking done
I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
thinking bikinis labels
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
thinking order hearing
It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.
almost commerce power thinking
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?
president thinking
My thinking is that the president really has to voluntarily appear,
basis president vice
I've not said that the vice president has done anything wrong, ... What I have said is there is a basis for (an) independent counsel.
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It would be quite a sacrifice for her, but she's prepared to do it if she is asked, ... By next June we'll know a lot more about Judge Roberts ... than we do today.