Statement of Senator Webb on the Announcement of Senator Arlen Specter to Join the Democratic Party

“Senator Specter has given great service to our country, and I have tremendous respect for him. He has made this decision after careful reflection, and we welcome him.

“With respect to my own political journey, as I have said many times my prototype in the U.S. Congress is Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who spent a great deal of his life as a writer and thinker, who served in the Administration of a Republican president, but who affiliated with the Democratic Party when he decided to run for office.”