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On the recordApril 15, 2010
It is my hope that we will find one day soon an opportunity to break the gridlock which has engulfed the Senate for some time now on the judicial issues.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Senator Specter calls for an end to Senate gridlock on judicial nominations.

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