Key US senator switches parties

Published: 29 April 2009 y., Wednesday
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Moving Democrats closer to a 60-vote Senate majority that would allow them to break Republican procedural roadblocks, Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter said he has switched parties and will begin working with Democrats immediately.

 

 

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