Word: specters
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...extraordinary weekend session of the Senate Judiciary Committee was called in part to allow extensive questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who said he was still undecided about the nomination but demonstrated skepticism about Bork's views...
...Specter said Bork apparently would vote on the high court against Congress in its bid to restrain presidential war-making powers...
When it comes to railing at swollen military budgets, Congress talks a good game. But where constituents are concerned, legislators all too often pull out the purse instead of the paring knife. One such sympathetic Senator is Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania: thanks to an amendment he tucked into a defense appropriations bill, a Pennsylvania firm stands to gain as much as $10 million to cover cost overruns on a fixed-price contract with the Navy...
...design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political-action committee for his 1986 re-election campaign. Last September Hamberger gave Specter a draft of what he wanted -- an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that directed the Navy to reimburse Dravo for its overruns...
Hamberger argued that the Government got a better plant than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...