Word: specter
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...Sessions' colleagues, for the most part, say he is a changed man. Senator Arlen Specter, whose defection to the Democratic Party opened the door for Sessions to move up, bent over backward on Tuesday to compliment the Alabaman, even though Specter was on the committee in 1986 and voted against Sessions at the time. "My vote against candidate Sessions for the federal court was a mistake," Specter told reporters on Capitol Hill, "because I have since found that Senator Sessions is egalitarian." Echoed Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and another long-term member of the committee, "The reason...
...students affiliated with Phillips Brooks House Association gathered in Lowell Dining Hall on Monday evening for the eighth annual Public Service Celebration, a formal dinner held to recognize outstanding senior volunteers for their achievements. While many students were honored for their social service work throughout the night, the specter of PBHA’s financial difficulties cast a slight damper on the evening’s festivities. Compared with previous years, fewer awards were distributed on Monday evening. “Due to some underperformance in the Harvard endowment, there was not as much funding to provide these awards...
...While Ingraham has a media constituency, moderate Republicans with constituencies of actual voters appear to disagree with her. "The Republican Party has gone far to the right since I joined it under Reagan's big tent," new Democrat Arlen Specter lamented on Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. Also on Sunday, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, one of two remaining Northeastern GOP moderates in Congress, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that Specter's loss, eight years after the defection of Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, shows how little the party has heeded the warning signs. "There...
...Protesters were not supposed to be on the menu - yet there they were. A small but vocal group of conservative Republicans showed up flashing signs like "RINOs Go Home," using the derogatory acronym for "Republicans in Name Only." (Read "GOP Senator Specter's Party Switch Gives Obama a 100-Day Gift...
...However, those whom he did have a chance of convincing—the Republican moderates—have largely abandoned their party to become independents or Democrats. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is the latest of these converts. In order to gauge the breadth of Obama’s popularity fairly, therefore, one must turn to his support among independents...