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===Other=== The Jewish daily newspaper ''[[The Forward]]'' reported in the wake of the [[Operation Bid Rig|July 2009 organ trafficking scandal in the U.S.]] involving Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn that an Organ Trafficking Prohibition Act of 2009, sponsored by Specter, had yet to be officially introduced in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://forward.com/articles/111473/|title=Kidney Donation Scandal Sparks New Debate Over Specter's Organ Legislation|date=August 5, 2009|publisher=[[The Forward]]|first=Nathan|last=Guttman}}</ref> Specter criticized the federal government's policy on cancer, stating the day after [[Jack Kemp]]—the 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee and former congressman—died of cancer, that Kemp would still be alive if the federal government had done a better job funding cancer research.<ref>{{cite news|website=Fox News |date=2009-05-04 |title=Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research }}</ref> On February 16, 2011, Specter wrote a letter to President Obama. As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he stated that [[Jonathan Pollard]] should be pardoned. He stated, "Unfortunately, spying is not an uncommon practice even between allies and friendly nations."<ref>{{cite news |first=Gil Stern |last=Hoffman |title=Arlen Spector says Obama should free Pollard |work=Jerusalem Post |date=February 22, 2011 |url=http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Arlen-Spector-says-Obama-should-free-Pollard |access-date=July 25, 2017}}</ref>
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