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Specter Opposed Party Switching When Jeffords Did It

By on 4.28.09 @ 6:34PM

After Jim Jeffords defected to the Democratic Party in 2001, Specter said:

"How should these issues be handled by the Senate for the future? I intend to propose a rule change which would preclude a future recurrence of a Senator's change in parties, in midsession, organizing with the opposition, to cause the upheaval which is now resulting."

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