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...through the Senate and the House of Representatives, which has indicated that it won’t be considering budget resolutions until two weeks from now, according to Day. Though Kennedy, Menendez, and Collins’s amendment failed in the Senate this week, another amendment proposed by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and co-sponsored by 22 senators to increase funding by $7 billion for health, education and training, and low-income programs passed in the Senate yesterday in a 73-27 vote. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...worse in Iraq. I think they're getting worse in Iran." Over at the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican chairman Pat Roberts suggested that the National Security Agency's no- warrant surveillance program could come under the authority of a special court, while at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican chairman Arlen Specter continued to raise questions about the program's legality. "You cannot have domestic search-and-seizure without a warrant," Specter said. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney publicly criticized Bush for the failures of the hugely expensive Medicare prescription-drug plan...
...Unlike Republican colleagues Orrin Hatch of Utah or John Cornyn of Texas, Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania didn't easily accept that rationale. He expressed his skepticism early on, telling Gonzales that federal law has a "forceful and blanket prohibition against any electronic surveillance without a court order"; he even suggested that the program's legality should be reviewed by a special court. Specter did come to Gonzales' aid early on, when Democrats on the committee ate up twenty minutes with a doomed procedural vote to force Gonzales to testify under oath, a gesture Specter thought was unnecessary...
...first round by arguing that he needed the unchecked power to learn "if there are people inside our country who are talking with al-Qaeda." With poll numbers split on the issue, spooked Senators hunkered down. But in recent days, Senate Democrats and the Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman, Arlen Specter, have fired off nine letters to the Justice Department and the White House demanding information on the domestic-spying program. At Senate hearings last week, the former head of the National Security Agency refused even in closed session to say how many phones had been tapped...
...votes. It’s possible that these votes were so close because the issues at stake were so contentious. But it’s also possible that 5-4 votes lack the imprimatur of authority that wider margins carry. As the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, R-Pa, said after the court issued a 5-4 ruling in the 2000 case Bush v. Gore: “it naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions...