Senator Specter In The News

...in a tight race against Republican Pat Toomey, a businessman and former House member.Sestak defeated Obama-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, a longtime Republican who became a Democrat rather than face Toomey in a GOP primary. Organized labor and the White Hou

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...conversations with Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., who has said he was offered a job in the administration if didnât run against Sen. Arlen Specter. Sestak, who won the May 18 Pennsylvania primary and is now the Democratic candidate for the Senate seat, has sa

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...of people believe Obama is doing a fair or poor job as president. In the primary, Sestak defeated Obama-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, a longtime moderate Republican who switched parties rather than face Toomey in a GOP primary. Since then, outside groups h

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...will be the first time Obama has campaigned for/with Sestak this election cycle. Obama did not hide his support for Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary and his administration not so slyly tried to convince Sestak to drop his bid against Specter

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...cited sources in Ms. O'Donnell's campaign for a report predicting that Mr. Castle would follow the example of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and switch parties after the election. The new hardball tactics from the Castle camp, Ms. O'Donnell said, "show

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...to elect a senator who will put Pennsylvania's working families first." Mr. Obama campaigned for Mr. Sestak's opponent, Sen. Arlen Specter, in the Democratic primary race after he successfully enticed the five-term Republican to switch parties. Mr. Obam

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...seats held by Democrats are considered competitive. > Pennsylvania: Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who knocked off veteran Sen. Arlen Specter in a primary, is in a tough fight for the U.S. Senate seat with former Rep. Pat Toomey. Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell

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...Murkowski is the third senator to lose this year amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were the others. She trailed Miller - an Ivy League-educated lawyer, West Point graduate and decorated Gulf

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...is the third senator to lose this year amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were the others. She trailed Miller - an Ivy League-educated lawyer, West Point graduate and decorated Gulf War veteran

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...until it was too late. She becomes the third senator to be denied renomination this year, following Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). Four House members have also been defeated in the primaries: Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), Parker Griffith (R-

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...the lands that we do control so that we can develop them more freely and more economically." Murkowski is the third senator to lose this year amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were the others.

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...becomes the third senator this year whose reelection bid did not get past the primary. Pennsylvania Democrats rejected Sen. Arlen Specter after he switched parties, and Utah Sen. Robert F. Bennett failed to qualify for the ballot at the state Republican

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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has conceded defeat to upstart Tea Party favorite Joe Miller after a day of counting ballots in their razor-thin Republican primary, the Associated Press reports. The AP said Murkowski was behind Miller, a lawyer and Gulf War

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski narrowed her 1,668-vote deficit to challenger Joe Miller from last Tuesday's GOP primary in Alaska – but only by 208. More votes remain to be counted. Regional AccuVote board members Rica Gaines, left, and Beth Madren process ballots

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Democratic senators are donating generously to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid but his biggest contributor is the one who often gives him a serious case of heartburn – Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.). An examination of incumbent senators’

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The life of an Establishment Republican used to be simple. If you dodged scandal and could produce polls showing you could get re-elected, the party back in Washington would go to bat for you. You'd win. Your biggest threat came from a group called the

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U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski has asked a federal public health agency to assess an environmental permit application for a mine reclamation permit in Hazleton. U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, points to a map showing a site in Conyngham Township

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee is apparently neutral in the ongoing ballot-counting process in the Alaska primary race between Sen. Lisa Murkowski and attorney Joe Miller. The decision comes as Murkowski faces an uphill battle, in which

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He trained similar criticism on longtime Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party last year and then ...

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Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and Utah Sen. Robert Bennett have already been bagged, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is now pursuing dwindling third-party ...

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