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His current term isn't up until 2010, but "Snarlin' Arlen" Specter announced he plans to run for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate. "There are a lot of important things to be done and finally after being here to acquire some seniority, I'm in a position to do that," the 77-year-old Specter told the Associated Press. "I'm full of energy and my wife doesn't want me home for breakfast, lunch and dinner." If he wins in 2010, Specter will be 86 by the time his term ends. That's kind of young for the geriatric Senate, where Robert Byrd, the...

Contact Your Senators -- Ask them to oppose naming anti-gun Sen. Arlen Specter as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408http://www.gunowners.org Tuesday, November 9, 2004 You would have thought John Kerry had won an astounding Electoral College victory, rather than George W. Bush. But, within 24 hours after the presidential results were in, there was the Senate Judiciary Committee heir-apparent, Pennsylvania liberal Republican Arlen Specter, warning Bush not to make conservative nominations to the U.S. Supreme court. The “code words” used by Specter centered...