Sen. Specter Backs $140 Bln Asbestos Bill
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman  Arlen Specter said on Wednesday he was proposing a $140 billion  fund to compensate asbestos victims and cap the liability of  companies paying them damages.
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Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to discuss why the N.F.L. destroyed all evidence of the Patriotsâ video-taping incident in the season opener.
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Several influential conservative Republicans indicated yesterday that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who is in line to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, has not succeeded
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A U.S. Senate plan to create a $140  billion asbestos compensation fund has hit further snags over  ways to stop victims being paid twice and sagging support among  members of the Republican majority, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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REPUBLICAN US Senate leaders have a chance to give a renegade member the treatment he deserves. Liberal Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn.
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., announced Wednesday that he has Hodgkin's disease but expects to continue to work in the Senate while being treated.
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Every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee has pledged to support Sen. Arlen Specterâs (R-Pa.) bid to become the panelâs chairman, paving the way for his ascension in January.
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Sen. Arlen Specter on Thursday won the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee&#39;s Republicans to be their chairman next year, surviving complaints from abortion opponents
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Sen. Arlen Specter, a 26-year Senate Republican, said he will visit Syria despite loud objections by the Bush administration, contending the situation in Iraq is so dire that it is time Congress step up to the plate and see what it can do.
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Conservative opponents of Sen. Arlen Specter's bid to become Senate Judiciary Committee chairman are flooding Republican committee members with calls demanding he be passed over.
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The controversy over US Sen. Arlen Specter&#39;s comments regarding anti-abortion federal judges could result in Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl getting one of the most important posts on Capitol Hill.
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The Senate signaled in a key vote yesterday that it supports giving some of the nation's largest telephone companies immunity from dozens of privacy lawsuits related to a federal domestic eavesdropping program initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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The US Congress approved a $145 billion bill providing new corporate tax breaks and a buyout for tobacco farmers as part of legislation that eliminates an export tax credit ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.
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President George W. Bush signed a $136 billion corporate tax relief bill yesterday that could provide substantial savings for some of Massachusetts&#39; biggest
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Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, under fire from conservatives because of his views supporting abortion rights, appeared last night to
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Senator Bill Frist said that Senator Arlen Specter must convince his fellow Republicans that he deserves to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Sen. Arlen Specter gained ground Tuesday toward winning the Senate Judiciary Committee chairmanship, which was thrown into doubt after he said judges who oppose abortion rights would face confirmation problems in the Senate.