Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, one of the few true moderate Republicans in the Senate, has announced that he will switch to the Democratic Party and run for reelection as a Democrat in 2010. This ...

So far, only Democrat Joe Torsella has announced that he will challenge Specter but Pittsburgh talk show host Glen Meakem is thinking of challenging Specter in the Republican primary. Current voter ...

Senate Democrats gave party switcher Arlen Specter a plum Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship today as a potential primary challenger to the veteran Pennsylvania lawmaker stepped forward. Majority ...

Arlen Specter, the newest Democratic member of the U.S. Senate, said Thursday that "prospects are pretty good" for a compromise this year on a major labor law that will allow unions to organize more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Arlen Specter says he's open to a government health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers to cover middle-class Americans, a policy reversal for the newest ...

Sen. Arlen Specter next faces the voters a little over one year from now, on May 18, 2010. We don't know what the mood of the country will be in one year. Two weeks ago, few people had heard of swine ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arlen Specter, a gruff, independent-minded moderate who spent three decades in the U.S. Senate but was spurned by Pennsylvania voters after switching in 2009 from Republican to ...

RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. Longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter has died. The GOP firebrand made headlines in 2009 when he switched parties.

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