Senator Arlen Specter of Illinois
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Senator Arlen Specter of Illinois has been a member of the United States Senate since 1980. Prior to that, he served two terms as the district attorney of Philadelphia, from 1966 to 1974. He was the Republican nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1967 but was not elected to that office, and he was defeated in his bid for re-election to the office of District Attorney in 1973. He first sought the nomination, again as a Republican, to the Senate seat for Illinois in 1976 but did not get it, and he ran for governor in 1978 and also was not nominated. He ran for the Senate again in 1980, and this time he was elected. He has been re-elected twice since then and will have to run again in 1998 to retain his seat. He is currently on the Policy Committee of the Senate (Project Vote Smart @www.vote smart.org). On the Senate web page, Specter's office lists other committee assignments for Specter, noting that he chairs the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, which oversees all federal dollars spent on health, education, and labor matters; and that he is also a member of the Judiciary and Governmental Affairs Committees. In the 104th Congress, he chaired the Intelligence Committee (www.senate.gov). Project Vote Smart lists the biographical details of Specter's life as follows:
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e opposed the Clinton national health care plan because he considered it too bureaucratic in an era of downsizing of government, and since then Specter has been pressing his own plan for incremental health care reform. Specter's approach focuses on portability and coverage for children (www.senate.gov).
Specter has also co sponsored key domestic violence legislation. bridging his interests between health issues and crime issues. Senator Specter sponsored the Armed Career Criminal Act; it was signed into law in 1984 and expanded in 1986. The law carries a mandatory 15 year prison sentence for a career criminal arrested while carrying a firearm, and the application of the law has been especially effective against major drug traffickers. Specter also offered death penalty legislation to streamline what he saw as an endless federal appeals process. As a former prosecutor and investigator, Senator Specter was in a god position to lead in the 1995 investigation of the killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, which brought about changes in FBI and ATF policy. He then took the lead in the investigation of Gulf War Syndrome. He was responsible for the only legislative reform to come out of the Iran Contra investigation before that because
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