Our government is based upon a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. The actions taken by the president undermine the very foundations of our country. We urge the relevant Congressional committees to investigate how the president abused his power as our chief executive. We applaud Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter for committing to hold oversight hearings. The American people deserve to know the truth.
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He got the bug to run for president, ... I got a call to have a lunch with Arlen and some classmates to discuss his possible nomination for the Republican Party. When he told us, we looked at each other and got this big smirk. Then one of us said, 'We'd l
The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
I know, from what I heard second hand, that a lot of members of his senatorial staff are apparently terrified of him, ... But he never portrayed those kind of characteristics in law school. He always had a smile, he was always sociable with people, and those are the kinds of qualities I see now -- the same old Arlen I've always known.
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
The No. 1 thing to understand is that no one gets a free pass with Arlen Specter. He takes his role as chairman, as a neutral arbitrator, very seriously.
Arlen went on to be a really wonderful trial lawyer, yet I never tried a case in front of a jury again. ... He was a wonderful guy then, we hit it off, and we were quite proud of each other.
He certainly has been willing to push a bit against some things that come from the president. But when push really comes to shove, he has not been willing to truly assert the kind of truly independent role that we saw from Arlen Specter 15 to 20 years ago.
Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.
Arlen Specter, (Indiana GOP Rep.) Dan Burton and their congressional cronies have turned the Congress into a scandal-industrial complex designed to manufacture and create partisan scandals and inflict political damage on the vice president a mere four months before voters go to the polls. It's clear for all to see that this constitutes Republican political skullduggery, GOP chicanery and Republican dirty tricks.
But Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a member of Hatch's committee, took issue with that view. I rechecked the Constitution. I do not believe that ignoring a subpoena would be grounds for impeachment, ... Late Edition.