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• In Brief: In ten minutes or so, we’re going to ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:53 am

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Doj, Impeachment, Letters, Please Excuse My Attorney General From School As He Is Very Sick

  In ten minutes or so, we’re going to get a magical letter from the White House that will explain that Gonzales didn’t lie at all about anything and then we can all quit worrying about it...

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• Letter Never Sent Dept.: White House, Like Nation, Not Listening to Arlen Specter

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:10 pm

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Letter Never Sent Dept, Letters, Lies, Senate

  Yesterday Arlen Specter told everyone that he wouldn’t comment on Alberto Gonzales until Tuesday afternoon, when the White House would send him a very special letter explaining that Gonzo...

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• Senate subpeona’s Karl Rove

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Harriet Miers, Patrick Leahy, U S Attorney Firings, U S Attorney Firing Scandal, Josh Bolton, Power Games, Gop Culture Of Corruption, U S Senate, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Politics

  after consulting with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the committee's ranking member. The Bush-Cheney White House continues to place great strains on our constitutional system of checks and balances, Leahy added. Not since the darkest days of the Nixon administration have we seen efforts to corrupt federal law enforcement for partisan

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• ID-Sen: Craig fighting ethics committee investigation

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Id Sen, Idaho, 2008, Larry Craig, Arlen Specter

  aspect of this whole case is Arlen Specter's role: On Tuesday, Specter, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested Craig’s GOP colleagues who pressured him last week to resign should re-examine the facts surrounding his arrest. "The more people take a look at the situation, there may well be second thoughts," said

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• PAYBACK TIME FOR ARLEN SPECTER

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Larry Craig Reconsiders, Arlen Specter

  is a bitch. Arlen has been around a long time and knows how to play the game. He also has a long memory. When he was up for Chairman of The Judiciary Committee he was emasculated by the Republican neocons and told to get out of committee any nominees sent by The White House. He wanted the Chairmanship so badly he let them cut off his

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• Restore America's Moral Authority

  Published: September 17, 2007, 8:18 pm

  Tags: Chris Dodd, Arlen Specter, Patrick Leahy, Habeas Corpus

  by Senators Leahy, Dodd, and Specter. Here's what today's Time's says about the effort: In 2006, acting in reckless haste before an election, 65 senators and 250 members of the House defied the Constitution, endangered the safety of American soldiers and hurt the nation’s global reputation by passing the Military Commissions Act. The law

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• Dept. Of Pornography: Arlen Specter Is Not Keeping Up With Pornography

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Arlen Specter, Dept Of Pornography, Idiocracy, Jenna Jameson, Pornos

  Snarlin’ Arlen Specter is so quaint. The moderate Republican senator is about 95 years old and still married to his lone wife, and his kids don’t hate him, and he’s apparently...

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• Dept. Of Pornography: Arlen Specter Is Not Keeping Up With Pornography

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Arlen Specter, Dept Of Pornography, Idiocracy, Jenna Jameson, Pornos

  staffer or intern from Arlen Specter’s office. Specter had no clue about any of it. The Washington Post confronted the elderly senator: “I don’t recognize that name. Who? General Jameson?” Specter asked. “No, sir, Jenna. She’s, well, she’s kind of an actress, in, well, uh, the adult film

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• Here's A Shock - Specter is Once Again Spectering

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Spectering, Stfu, Arlen Specter, Torture, Kabuki, Bullshit, Congress

  In an interview, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said that in light of the administration's apparent retreat from its legal embrace of the harshest tactics in 2004, the 2005 opinions are more than surprising. I think they're shocking, Mr. Specter said. He added members of

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• Overturning Buckley?

  Published: October 9, 2007, 3:29 pm

  Tags: Campaign Finance Reform, Cfr, 2008 Elections, Charles Schumer, Chuck Schumer, Arlen Specter, Constitution, Fair Elections Now Act, Public Financing

  of New York, and Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, have sent their colleagues a letter asking for co-sponsors of a bill that would in effect overturn the 1976 Supreme Court decision Buckley v. Valeo, which ruled that campaign spending was a protected form of free speech. It has bedeviled all subsequent attempts to limit the

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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• House Passes Bill to Protect Confidentiality of Reporters' Sources

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Passes, Bill, Protect, Confidentiality, Reporters, Sources, John Conyers, Mike Pence, U S House Committee On The Judiciary, Indiana, Tex, The Washington Post Company, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, George W Bush, Lamar Smith, Lucy Dalglish, Rick Boucher, Iraq

  The House yesterday overwhelmingly passed first-ever federal protections for journalists pressured to reveal confidential sources, as lawmakers from both parties backed legislation that advocates for the news media have sought for a generation.

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• Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Bush, Agree, Terms, Spying, Bill, George W Bush, United States, Al Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Osama Bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, The White House, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Cable News Network Lp Lllp

  Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have...

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• Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Bush, Agree, Terms, Spying, Bill, George W Bush, United States, Al Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Osama Bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, The White House, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Cable News Network Lp Lllp

  Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have...

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