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Specter’s Switch Seriously Alters K St. Dynamics

By Anna Palmer
Roll Call Staff
April 29, 2009, Midnight

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to switch political parties and run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010 reverberated down K Street on Tuesday as lobbyists braced for a dramatically new environment around some of the year’s most heavily lobbied issues.

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