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Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82.

 

Poll says Sestak closing gap on Specter

Poll says Sestak closing gap on Specter

US Rep. Joe Sestak has cut deeply into Sen. Arlen Specter's once seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls, reducing the margin to less than double digits with about two weeks left before the May 18 primary election ...

 

Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded

Sen. Arlen Specter suggests that one of the reasons he left the GOP was because it did not share his interest in funding medical research.

 

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