Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
both good wants
Why not go after both levels? ... Why not get tough? That's what Sen. Feinstein wants to do, and I think it's a good idea.
meeting opposed
Thoroughness would be the objective, as opposed to meeting any timetable,
bottom ought
We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated by the American people.
anyone fiddle korea playing second south
We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,
hearings noon start
We'll start hearings at noon on 9 January,
almost commerce power thinking
What is your thinking on the jurisprudence of U.S. v. Lopez and U.S. v. Morrison, which overturned almost 60 years of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause?
What I do know is that we're going to do it right, and we're not necessarily going to do it fast,
action aircraft airlines crew danger ensure flight heroic innocent large noble numbers passengers potential symbols took united
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, ... recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.
possible three
three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.
asking iraqi rebuild
We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
hear hugh precisely
We have to hear from Hugh Rodham about precisely what he did,
answer kennedy wait
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question.
judge wait
Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.
finished senator wait
Wait a minute, Senator Biden. He's not finished his answer.