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...week in which his chances for confirmation dissipated with dizzying speed. First the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9 to 5 to send the nomination to the floor with a negative recommendation. All three of the panel members who were undecided when the hearings began -- Republican Arlen Specter and Democrats Dennis DeConcini and Howell Heflin -- voted against Bork. The parade of lawmakers announcing their intention to oppose Bork in the full Senate vote accelerated. By Friday, 53 Senators had come out against...
Making the telephone call was something Senator Arlen Specter had dreaded but felt compelled to do. After Specter imparted his bad news to Robert Bork last week, the judge simply said, "Senator, I'm very disappointed." Replied the Pennsylvania Republican: "I wanted to be the one to tell...
...committee vote fell roughly along party lines, with Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania the only Republican to join eight Democrats in recommending rejection of Bork's nomination. The committee's five other Republicans were. on Bork's side...
...seven years in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter has earned a reputation as a ferociously independent politician who keeps his own counsel. In 1985 the Pennsylvania Republican stunned liberals and some moderates by unexpectedly voting for the MX missile; then last year he managed to enrage conservatives by opposing aid to the Nicaraguan contras. During the past two weeks, trying to read Specter's mind on the subject of Judge Robert Bork has proved as confounding as ever...
...view of Bork's philosophical backpedaling. Before the hearing, many lawmakers were concerned that Bork was too rigid in his conservative ideology. During the judge's testimony, they wondered aloud if he was, instead, too changeable. "What troubles me is the very significant and profound shifts," said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, who has remained undecided. "Where's the predictability in Judge Bork?" Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy fired a more serious charge at the witness. Accusing Bork of mendaciously softening his ( views to ensure Senate approval, Leahy called the judge's changes of opinion a case of "confirmation conversion...