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Posted on 04/20/2009 1:10:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) visited Drexel April 13 for a town hall meeting discussing a "Just and Clean Energy Future".
The main goals as highlighted by the presentation were for 100 percent renewable energy, tax on carbon and the presence of green jobs, according to Nathan Taylor, a junior mechanical engineering and the event's organizer.
Students were the main target of the town hall, according to Taylor.
"We're trying to make a point that students matter, seeing that Specter is up for re-election, he should listen to the students," Taylor said.
Specter said his main platform in running for re-election is global warming, a generational issue that would affect those in the future if people do not act now. Through his visit to Drexel, Specter said he hopes to induce action from the students to solve the problem of global warming.
Specter discussed his interest in energy renewal and said the issue of global warming is overdue in congressional legislature and a matter that requires all our attention. He highlighted the Bingaman-Specter bill that he helped write and is currently in congress, which works toward a low carbon economy and is similar to the one of similar name, Bingaman-Specter "Low Carbon Economy Act," passed in 2007.
"We have to have a bill as aggressive as possible with the following two things: a realistic chance of passing and to establish goals that are within the current technology," Specter said.
(Excerpt) Read more at media.www.thetriangle.org ...
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Wasn’t Arlen Specter an attorney for Ira Einhorn (convicted murderer and Earth Day co-founder)?
The Crooked Party should realize that when they sell themselves to foreign interests, their policies almost always end up being anti-American
all of my fellow Western Pennsylvanians who find their gainful employment in the coal industry, PLEASE TAKE NOTE!!
Wasn’t Arlen Specter an attorney for Ira Einhorn (convicted murderer and Earth Day co-founder)?
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Yes, he was. I forget the details.
Who cares. Specter is about to be “retired” by Pat Toomey anyway.
He was never a right leaning politico anyway. Expect no less from him.
Yes he was and helped him flee I believe.
Toomey is going to be receiving an out of state donation from b4.......
My head is exploding and I don't even live in Pennsylvania.
Spectre sounds more like Al Gore than any Republican I have heard.
Is this what Pa. wants?
Apparently Arlen has never matured past the young skull full of mush stage in life.
How is that filibuster thing coming along?
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Specter to buck party, vote for stimulus ($6.5b pay to play?)
Scraton Times ^ | February 09, 2009 | BORYS KRAWCZENIUK
Concerned about the nation’s “very severe economic recession,” U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter said today he plans to vote for Senate Democrats’ economic stimulus package, despite the political risk.
“If we don’t act, we may find ourselves in a depression like 1929,” Mr. Specter said after visiting the Schott Glass Technologies plant in Duryea. “That has to be avoided.”
Mr. Specter, a Republican and part of a bipartisan group of senators who worked on the proposal, said the $827 billion Senate version is far less expensive than what Democratic Senate leaders originally proposed.
“It cuts the Democratic proposal by $110 billion, which is a lot of money,” he said, noting criticism of the Senate proposal by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “So that’s a sign we must be on the right track.”
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“Well, of course I am,” Mr. Specter said when asked if he’s worried about the conservative backlash. “But (President) John Kennedy had it right. He said, ‘Sometimes the party asks too much.’ And this is something I think is necessary for the country. It goes beyond politics. It goes beyond the Democratic or Republican position. It’s the right thing for America.”
Mr. Specter said he would have supported the package even if Democrats had not added $6.5 billion in additional money for the National Institutes of Health to the final version of the bill.
Mr. Specter had sought the money for years, and had mentioned that he wanted the money in the bill when he met with President Barack Obama last week.
“That’s only one small part ... That’s not determinative in my mind,” he said.
The stimulus vote could create “a political problem,” he said, but “I thought the public interest was so important that I have to take whatever problems it brings me.”
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