Arlen Specter

President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising event for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Copyright 2009 AP News

President Barack Obama arrives at a fundraising event for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Copyright 2009 AP News

On health care, organizing bills, president reassures PITTSBURGH When President Barack Obama took the stage at the AFL-CIOs annual convention here Tuesday, he faced thousands of union foot soldiers who were wary of his leadership and Congress commitment to the labor agenda. ...

The Employee Free Choice Act -- the embattled bill that would make it easier for unions to organize -- may have gotten new life on Sept. 15 when Senator Arlen Specter [D-Pa.] announced that he had reached a compromise with labor representatives ...

Obama heads fundraiser for Republican-turned-Democrat whose fortunes tied to White House's President Barack Obama urged Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday to support the re-election bid of Sen. Arlen Specter in a personal appearance here for the Republican-turned-Democrat who represents an important test of ...

Specter tells AFL-CIO he supports union organizing bill, predicts passage this year Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists that he will support legislation that would make it easier to form ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iowa senator Tom Harkin, newly empowered to investigate health matters as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, promised on Monday to probe deeply into any potential links between cellphone use and cancer. Harkin, who took ...

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2009, town hall meeting on health care reform proposals open to the public in Lebanon, Pa., Sen. Arlen Specter, 79 and a two-time cancer survivor, left, is berated by an unidentified man who shouted, "One day ...

An unidentified union supporter holds a sign before Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., addressed the crowd at the start of the Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Wright) Copyright 2009 AP News

VP Joe Biden pledges to back workers in the first of 2 Labor Day stops in Pennsylvania Vice President Joe Biden told a rally at Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade that organized labor was the backbone of the country and that he and ...