Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s party switch highlights the growing marginalization of the hard-right Republican Party, now down to two moderates in the Senate. And it highlights the growing ...

Arlen Specter likes it when he’s described as the best lawyer in the Senate; there are a lot of lawyers in its chambers. Specter, 79, particularly enjoys his reputation as someone who will go wherever ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, a move intended to boost his chances of winning re-election next year that also will ...

Democrats in Washington were quick to celebrate Republican Senator Arlen Specter’s shocking announcement that he was switching parties. But in his home state of Pennsylvania, Specter’s news received a ...

PITTSBURGH -- -- PITTSBURGH -- More than a year after making the most controversial move of his career and days before an election that could end his days in politics, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) is ...