ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC ANCHOR: And hours from now, until the polls close here in Pennsylvania, that's when we learn whether long-time senator, veteran Arlen Specter will get a chance to run for ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he will ask Supreme Court justice nominee John Roberts dignified, appropriate and probing questions about such topics as the role of ...

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court ...

A week after switching parties, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is still trying to fit in as a Democrat. He has moved his desk in the Senate chamber across the aisle. He has gone from ranking ...

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Even after nearly two decades in the Senate, Specter hadn’t lost any of his ability to confound — or court controversy. In 1998, he voted “not proven” rather than “not guilty” in the impeachment trial ...

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, knows this one is for the history books. His last chemo treatment was in late July. Does he realize that ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) will head that panel's hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. A moderate Republican, Specter often finds himself at ...

Arlen Specter, the longtime moderate Jewish Republican senator from Pennsylvania whose surprise party switch helped pass President Obama's health-care reforms, has died. Specter, 82, died Sunday at ...

Pennsylvania is an increasingly Democratic state. In 2004, Kerry won the state by a hair; Obama won it with a handy ten percent lead. In 2004, twelve of nineteen Keystone Congressmen were Republican, ...

Spygate turns 15 next year. Every so often, it continues to create a nugget of news. Here’s the news from a new item from Don Van Natta, Jr. and Seth Wickersham of ESPN.com regarding the controversy ...

Senate Democratic primary is a test of the anti-Washington sentiment. May 18, 2010— -- Voters across Pennsylvania today started casting their votes in the Senate primary race that could become a ...