Honorable Arlen Specter
United States Senator, Pennsylvania, Republican
Senator Specter was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980. He was Assistant Counsel on the Warren Commission in 1964, Assistant Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1964 to 1965, and a practicing attorney from 1965 to 1973. He chairs the Judiciary Committee and also serves on the Appropriations Committee and the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The following is from the February 7, 2005, Senate floor debate on S. 5, the Class Action Fairness Act.I support class action reform. I do so essentially to prevent judge-shopping to States and even counties where courts and judges have a prejudicial predisposition on cases….
