Overview (CCNP website): Carlsbad Caverns National Park contains more than 100 limestone caves that are unequaled in the profusion, diversity and beauty of their formations. The caves are the summer home for a world-famous colony of migratory Mexican free-tailed bats. The park contains 33,125 acres of rugged wilderness backcountry terrain.
Arlen Specter: Chair-to-be of the Senate Judiciary Committee, backs down on defense of women's right to abortion.
Nov 4, 2004 (Philadelphia Daily News): Specter, as presumptive chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that he would block any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court who opposed abortion rights. Reiterating his position that a woman's right to choose is "inviolate," he said overturning Roe v. Wade today would be akin to trying to reverse Brown v. Board of Education, the court's 1954 landmark desegregation decision.
Nov 17, 2004 (Fox News): After two days of appealing to fellow GOP senators, embattled Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said he would make a public statement to assure Republicans at large he would not block anti-abortion judicial nominees from President Bush.
Arlen Specter, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, backs off pressuring Attorney General Gonzales on domestic surveillance revelations.
Dec 21, 2005 (Fox News): Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter said Wednesday he remains skeptical about a government surveillance program despite an explanation from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. [ . . . ]
"When a cannon hits you between the eyes, you take notice and I was immediately asked what I thought about it and I said, 'Well, it's a matter that requires a hearing,"' Specter said.
Feb 6, 2006 (Think Progress): Attorney Alberto Gonzales won’t be sworn in [before his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the government program surveilling U.S. citizens], even though the last time he testified under oath he misled the committee about the program. Leahy noted he was sworn the other two times he appeared before the committee. Leahy appealed the ruling of the chair and asked for a roll call vote.
[Following the roll call vote, Specter fretted: "This is really not a very good way to begin this hearing."]
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