Arlen Specter's pending departure from the Senate and the February death of Rep. John P. Murtha represent a double blow to the ability of the region and the state to attract federal dollars ...
WASHINGTON -- One of Sen. Arlen Specter's favorite jokes during the second week of August, when he was on the business end of raised voices and wagged fingers in a series of town hall meetings across Pennsylvania, was that you couldn't change the television channel without seeing his face ...
WASHINGTON -- If you gave money to Sen. Arlen Specter's re-election campaign before he switched to the Democratic Party, you're going to hear from the Club for Growth soon ...
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission says a conservative political group can use Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter's campaign donor list to inform givers of the senator's promise to return money to those upset by his switch ...
Hundreds of people showed up for U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter's latest town hall meeting on health care reform -- the first one he has held in western Pennsylvania ...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter's main opponent in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary next year is dropping out ... Philadelphia civic leader Joe Torsella says in a video to friends and supporters to be posted on his campaign Web site Thursday evening that he's concerned the race would become more about Specter's record than looking forward and that's not good for the state ... The 45-year-old Torsella is a former president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and is the chairman