Sen Specter Gets a New Vantage Point
FOXNews
Newly-minted Dem senator Arlen Specter, who left the GOP party earlier this week after decades, will have a new location on the Senate floor to match his party switch when the chamber opens for business today. His desk was relocated last night out of ...To be continued.
Smerconish, Nakedly Defending Specter
Washington Post, United States
Arlen Specter's biggest defenders in Pennsylvania, Republican radio talk show host Michael Smerconish, is locked in a blame game. He tells the Sleuth that his angriest listeners - pretty much everyone who called into his show yesterday morning - are ...To be continued.
Changing Washington Proves Harder Than Expected
Washington Post, United States
Arlen Specter into the Democratic Party, a potential 60th -- and therefore filibuster-killing -- vote for a party that eight years ago was jumping for joy over the party switch by Vermont's Jim Jeffords that gave them a one-vote majority by which to ...To be continued.
KEN KLUKOWSI AND KEN BLACKWELL: Specter's Switch Means the Future ...
FOXNews
Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party is a political earthquake that will have far-reaching consequences for a host of policy and political issues. Of all these, none is more significant than the potential consequences for the United States ...To be continued.
Post Politics: Specter's Switch, More
Washington Post, United States
Arlen Specter's decision to become a Democrat and the rest of the latest news out of Washington. Paul Kane: Greetings, readers. Is there anybody alive out there? What a day. It's utterly miserable here on Capitol Hill, rainy, cold, awful. ...To be continued.
The ripple effects of Specter's switch
Politico, DC
By MARTIN KADY II | 4/30/09 4:04 AM EDT Arlen Specter's party switch is creating chaos with staff careers, paychecks and the personal loyalties of people who signed on to work for a senior Republican but now find themselves aligned with the party of ...To be continued.
Which side are you on Specter?
Huffington Post, NY
Arlen Specter's decision to become a Democrat makes the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act much more fluid and passage much more likely. The labor movement will re-double our already overwhelming efforts in Pennsylvania to convince the Senator to ...To be continued.
US bank 'stress test' nerves return as Specter fades
guardian.co.uk, UK
... Karey Wutkowski WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - Financial industry lobbyists in Washington were back to worrying on Wednesday about the stress tests of 19 big banks, after deciding not to worry -- not much, anyway -- about Senator Arlen Specter. ...To be continued.
Obama: 'Specter Has My Full Support'
Washington Post, United States
Arlen Specter his full support when Specter runs for re-election in 2010. Specter announced Tuesday that he will switch his party affiliation to the Democrats. Paul Kane, Chris Cillizza and Shailagh Murray have the full story here. ...To be continued.
Specter's Plan to Rein In the Presidency
New York Times, United States
By Robert Mackey Updated | 5:14 pm The current issue of the New York Review of Books includes an article by Senator Arlen Specter, Republican Democrat of Pennsylvania, called "The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs," which suggests that Mr. ...To be continued.
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