This is just breaking.
Republican senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania reportedly switching parties to become a democrat.
With Al Franken getting ready to be seated as a democrat and Spector switching parties, this will give dems a fillibuster-proof 60-vote majority.
(Arlen Specter, a moderate republican, what used to be called a "Rockefeller Republican", says that the new republican party has left him. Says his political philosophy is now more in line with the democrats)
Republican senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania reportedly switching parties to become a democrat.
With Al Franken getting ready to be seated as a democrat and Spector switching parties, this will give dems a fillibuster-proof 60-vote majority.
(Arlen Specter, a moderate republican, what used to be called a "Rockefeller Republican", says that the new republican party has left him. Says his political philosophy is now more in line with the democrats)
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