Return to Washington Examiner Homepage
May 18, 2013 | 09:01 AM
politics
Washington D.C. weather
Yeas and Nays

Congress says goodbye to Arlen Specter

October 14, 2012 | 5:41 pm
Leave a comment

On Sunday, dozens of members of Congress mourned the loss of long-time former Sen. Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania, whose 30-year career included changing parties twice and authoring the "magic bullet" theory in the death of President Kennedy. Specter, 82, died Sunday morning at his Philadelphia home.

The tweets rolled in from both sides of the aisle. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had this to say: ""America is better today because of Arlen Specter. He will be dearly missed."

From WeeklyStandard.com

  • Ideological Revenue Service

    With three different scandals threatening to consume the White House last week—the Benghazi cover-up, the Justice Department’s seizure of the phone records of dozens of Associated Press...

    Read More...

  • The Real Scandal

    Everyone in Washington, except those in the crosshairs, likes a good scandal, and THE WEEKLY STANDARD is no exception. What’s more, in the case of the Obama administration, comeuppance is well...

    Read More...

  • When It Rains, It Pours

    There is no curse on the second term of presidents. When presidents lose credibility, when trust vanishes and their word is no longer accepted, they have only themselves to blame. That was true...

    Read More...