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Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter is a United States Senator for Pennsylvania who is currently serving his fifth term. In 2005, he became Pennsylvania's longest serving U.S. Senator. He is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations and Veterans Affairs committees. In 2005, Specter battled lymphoma cancer, undergoing almost five months of chemotherapy while still maintaining all his Senatorial duties. He has since received a clean bill of health. Born to Russian immigrant parents in Wichita, Kansas, Specter was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He lives in Philadelphia.
Ideas recorded at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival on: 7/2/07
Ideas recorded at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival on: 7/2/07
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The Middle East
11/07/2007
Description: Specter's main goal is stability.
Transcript: Well my goals will be to do what we can to stabilize Iraq without great loss of America life and limb. That we would enter into very active negotiations with the problems facing the world. Our own controversies with Iran. Trying to work through the problems with Syria which sponsors Hezbollah, as does Iran. They sponsor Hamass. Find a way to get Hamaas to renounce its determination to destroy Israel, its refusal to recognize Israel as ultimately we succeeded in getting the PLO to change its charter. Trying to have a stable Palestinian government to negotiate a two-state resolution with Israel.
Recorded on: 7/4/2007 at The Aspen Ideas Festival
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