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Don't Tread on Mike
05-06-2009, 09:51 AM
Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution approved on the floor late Tuesday.

Under the modified organizing resolution, Specter will not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and will be the junior Democrat on all but one — the chamber’s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority.

As a result, Specter — who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education — will now rank behind all the other Democrats, at least until the end of this Congress.

According to a senior Democratic aide, it remains unclear whether Specter — who will still retain his seniority in the Senate outside of the committees — will see a boost in his committee seniority should he be re-elected for the next session. The status of his seniority for the next Congress will be determined once the 112th Congress convenes in 2011, the aide said.

Democrats said that while unrelated, Specter’s comments to the New York Times Magazine this weekend indicating he would support former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) disputed re-election bid against Al Franken have angered many Democrats.

“Sen. Specter better watch comments like these. They won’t help him in the caucus,” a Democratic leadership aide said, adding that the comments have “caused a lot of heartburn in the caucus.”

liberalnurse
05-06-2009, 01:16 PM
I saw Spector, as I was channel surfing on Sunday, talking to David Gregory and Gregory asked about his seniority. Spector replied of course he would keep it, that he is "entitled" to his seniority. So, much for entitlement and hello blowback.

Brooklyn Red Leg
05-06-2009, 01:22 PM
Fuck him, he got what he deserved. The more assholes like him flee to the Democratic party, the better. If only we could push out McCain, Snowe and the other top douchebags the GOP could be salvaged. As it is, its about to be taken over by the likes of Sarah Palin.