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Bustle
April 28, 2018
While it's not unusual for Supreme Court nominees to avoid pre-judging any cases or issues during their confirmation hearings, Kagan had a pretty sharp response to the late former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter when he attempted to get her to weigh in on a 1997 precedent. You shouldn't want aÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 28, 2018
Arlen Specter , a Republican turned Democrat from Pennsylvania, and the Jewish Museum of Florida, located in Miami Beach. Just as Black History Month in February encourages all Americans to celebrate the culture and contributions of African-Americans, Jewish-American Heritage Month raisesÃâà...
Daily Local News
April 28, 2018
Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum when he was elected Delaware County District Attorney in 1995. In 2001 George W. Bush named him U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where he gained a reputation as a crusading prosecutor after high-profile public corruption cases in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Public Record
April 27, 2018
At the Bellevue gala for the National Museum of American Jewish History gala, Joe Biden greets Dr. John Glick, cancer specialist from Penn, while Steve Cozen, Esq. waits to make sure Biden gets to hug Joan Specter, widow of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, and Naomi Adler, CEO of the Jewish Federation.
NorthJersey.com
April 27, 2018
Senators Joe Biden, D-Dela., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., often rode together on Amtrak when returning to their homes in Wilmington and Philadelphia. Former Republican Leader Bob Michel, R-Ill., and House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., frequently drove together when travelingÃâà...
WHYY
April 27, 2018
That's when Lynn Yeakel lost her U.S. Senate bid in Pennsylvania after nearly unseating incumbent Arlen Specter. Since then, her work on women's issues led her to direct the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University's College of Medicine. WHYY's Morning Edition Host JenniferÃâà...
Communities Digital News
April 26, 2018
It was then that Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter decided he supported Obama's agenda. The former president welcomed Specter. In fact, Obama convinced Specter to switch to the Democratic Party. That was easy to do, as the left-leaning Specter had never truly been a Republican toÃâà...
Chestnut Hill Local
April 26, 2018
Arlen Specter, a Republican, in 2004. He served as a state representative, county commissioner, and ran unsuccessfully in 2010's Democratic gubernatorial primary race. The last woman in Congress from Pennsylvania was Hoeffel's successor, Allyson Schwartz, who succeeded Hoeffel in 2005. “There isÃâà...
lehighvalleylive.com
April 17, 2018
Arlen Specter rather than seek re-election to the House. Dent previously served as a state senator. Wolf, a Democrat, thanked Dent for his service. "Charlie Dent is a voice of reason and civility that breaks through the chaos and partisanship of Washington and he will be missed," Wolf said in a statement.
Parsippany Focus
April 15, 2018
As U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Staff Member, Dunn oversaw the implementation of a $40 billion dollar education appropriation, and as staff member to Arlen Specter, earned a reputation as an honest, fair, and responsive negotiator. “My experience in effectively negotiating multi-billion dollarÃâà...
New York Magazine
April 15, 2018
Northeastern Republicans like Vermont senator Jim Jeffords and Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter switched the other way when they saw their party veering too far right. A sequence of events like the transformation of a party into a cult of personality dedicated to the most unfit personality ever to occupyÃâà...
Delco News Network
April 1, 2018
Patrick Meehan, R-7 of Chadds Ford, is not seeking re-election. Yeakel, who lives in the Montgomery County portion of the 5th District, gained national attention after almost unseating then-U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in 1992. She also served as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director for the U.S. DepartmentÃâà...
WikiTribune
March 29, 2018
Levandsky, a 25-year Democratic incumbent, to a $600,000 library dedicated to controversial former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (WHYY). Levandsky lost his seat to his Republican opponent. “It's not a good thing for democracy to have all of that money and negative campaigning seep all the way into ourÃâà...
The Delaware County Daily Times
March 29, 2018
Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in 1992. She also served as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Currently, she leads Vision 2020, an initiative recognizing the 100th anniversary of women attaining voting rights in the United States. “I have known Ashley and herÃâà...
PennLive.com
March 22, 2018
Funds for Harrisburg federal courthouse are contained in new federal budget bill. Updated March 22, 2018 at 11:58 AM ; Posted March 21, 2018 at 10:58 PM. Former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed, former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter and former U.S. Rep. Tim Holden speak to the press about the potential of siting a federalÃâà...
Reading Eagle
March 21, 2018
... U.S. House in 2004 in an unsuccessful challenge to then-Republican U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. Two Democrats from Montgomery County, state Reps. Madeleine Dean and Mary Jo Daley, are also running. None of the candidates in the 4th has reported fundraising to the Federal Election Commission yet.
Timeline
March 13, 2018
In a campaign ad during her bid for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, Lynn Yeakel used a clip of her opponent, Arlen Specter, aggressively questioning Anita Hill. Yeakel asked viewers, “Did this make you as angry as it made me?” Women's political caucuses had been trying to get the media to pay attentionÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
March 11, 2018
Former U.S. Rep. Joe Hoeffel, right, is running for a newly redrawn congressional district in Montgomery County. Democrat Hoeffel served three House terms before running losing in 2004 to incumbent Arlen Specter in a U.S. Senate bid. (Rikard Larma / AP File Photo). The Associated Press Ãâ÷ Privacy Policy.
WEEI.com
March 8, 2018
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HSToday
February 26, 2018
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), covering security and technology issues on Capitol Hill. Earlier in his career he served a special assistant of the director of Voice of America. He is an advisor to LinkedIn on cybersecurity and emerging technology issues, and in both 2017 and 2016 he was named “CybersecurityÃâà...
Helena Independent Record
February 17, 2018
Examples included then-Michigan Rep. John Dingell, a Democrat, who saw a constituent bring his son in a wheelchair up to the front of a town hall meeting and shout, "I have a question for this young man," a moment that later went viral. Or when then-Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was toldÃâà...
Philly.com
February 13, 2018
Ever hear of something in Philadelphia called “the Arlen Specter library”? Me neither. But the small facility on the Philadelphia University campus in East Falls — near the longtime home of the late U.S. senator, officially called the Arlen Specter Center for Public Service — played an oversized role inÃâà...
Philadelphia magazine
February 10, 2018
Through a program called Safe Streets, Inc., Swans, with the support of Arlen Specter and probation officer Tom Reid, organized the gangs in North and West Philadelphia to work for peace. From that model came the city-funded Crisis Intervention Network, which used probation officers to convince olderÃâà...
HuffPost
February 8, 2018
As I've said before on HuffPost, you can't be neutral on Anita Hill's sworn testimony. Either Hill was lying about being sexually harassed by Thomas, or Thomas was perjuring himself, and Hatch, along with former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and other Republicans impugning Hill, were ― well, to pick aÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
June 23, 2017
Readers can now take an intimate look into the life of the state's longest serving U.S. senator — Arlen Specter — courtesy of Pennsylvania Cable News' recently released book “Arlen Specter: An Oral History.” PCN's Brian Lockman and Francine Schertzer transcribed 15 hours of interviews to produce theÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
December 31, 1999
Arlen Specter's opposition to President Clinton's economic stimulus package cost the city of Sharon $549,000 in development funds. The city of Youngstown was anticipating $3.2 million. Two Niles McKinley High School seniors receive Clayman Family Foundation scholarships: Michelle Plizga, the classÃâà...
GoErie.com
December 31, 1999
Arlen Specter. The goal was to reduce beach erosion caused by punishing winter storms, and by doing so save some of the millions spent each year on beach sand replenishment. The 55 breakwaters strung along the Lake Erie side of the peninsula interrupted east-to-west currents that traditionally carvedÃâà...
ABC27
December 31, 1999
Arlen Specter) joyfully promised the courthouse-to-come at North Sixth and Reilly streets. But the snow-covered vacant lot still sits idle. No longer, Barletta proclaimed. He pointed to Congress' new spending plan that will “appropriate” $137 million to finish the roughly $190 million courthouse. In the past, theÃâà...
Bucks Local News
December 31, 1999
... Wallace went to work as a general counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. At a time when Republicans and Democrats worked together for the common good of the country, he worked directly with Republican Senators Alan Simpson and Arlen Specter who led the investigation into theÃâà...
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