Editing Arlen Specter (section)

===Card check===
Specter received a 61% rating from the [[AFL–CIO]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sen Arlen Specter |publisher=AFL–CIO |url=http://www.aflcio.org/cgi-bin/member.pl?state=PA&pg=2&id=76&year=07&congress=s |access-date=April 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504153511/http://www.aflcio.org/cgi-bin/member.pl?state=PA&pg=2&id=76&year=07&congress=s |archive-date=May 4, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He voted for [[cloture]] on the [[Employee Free Choice Act]] in 2007. In early 2009, Specter announced he would not be voting for cloture on the same act in the 111th Congress.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schor |first=Elana |title=Specter: I'll Vote No on Employee Free Choice Act |date=March 24, 2009 |url=http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/specter-ill-vote-no-on-employee-free-choice-act.php |work=[[Talking Points Memo]] |access-date=April 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206002304/http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/specter-ill-vote-no-on-employee-free-choice-act.php |archive-date=December 6, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> After Specter switched parties, he changed his position on the issue again, and wrote a letter to the unions indicating he supported [[card check]] legislation.