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Read the text and answer the questions.
(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.

Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.

The veteran Pennsylvania politician had overcome numerous serious illnesses over the past two decades, including a brain tumor. He had been in the public eye since serving as a member of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Specter was elected to the Senate in 1980 and represented Pennsylvania for 30 years, longer than anyone in the state's history. His politically moderate image fit hand-in-glove in the politically blue Northeast, both with its Democratic centrists and its liberal Republicans.

He was also one of America's most prominent Jewish politicians, a rare Republican in a category dominated by Democrats over the decades. And his name is synonymous with Pennsylvania, an idiosyncratic state that pushes and pulls between the two parties, and his home, the staunchly Democratic city of Philadelphia.

In 2006, Philadelphia magazine called him "one of the few true wild cards of Washington politics ... reviled by those on both the right and the left."

"Charming and churlish, brilliant and pedantic, he can be fiercely independent, entertainingly eccentric and simply maddening," the profile read.

Former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called Specter "a mentor, colleague and a political institution" who "did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin." And Pat Toomey, the Republican who now holds Specter's old Senate seat, praised him as "a man of sharp intelligence and dogged determination."
1. Who is Arlen Specter?
2. What happened to him?
3. What did he die of?
4. How old was he?
5. Where did he die?
6. In Washington D.C.?
7. Where?
8. Was he a conservative republican?
9. What kind was he?
10. When did he first enter the public's eye?
11. What was the purpose of that?
12. Who has Specter's old Senate seat now?
13. What did he say about him?
14. Who said that quote?
15. When was Specter first elected?
16. Which state did he represent?
17. Was he loved by both democrats and republicans?
18. What city did he live in?
19. Was he catholic?
20. What was his religion?

Numbered answers:
1. Former U.S. Senator
2. he died
3. complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
4. 82
5. at his home
6. no
7. Philadelphia
8. no
9. Democrat
10. since serving as a member of the Warren Commission
11. investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
12. Pat Toomey
13. did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin
14. Pat Toomey
15. 1980
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Philadelphia
19. no
20. Jewish

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The director of Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday defended giving away an estimated $85 million in hurricane relief supplies, blaming Louisiana officials for turning down the stockpiles.

A New Orleans charity keeps goods in trash bags in an empty church. FEMA never told it about the free items.

"We still have quite a few left if Louisiana needs those," David Paulison said. "But we did find out, we did ask Louisiana, 'Do you want these?' They said, 'No, we don't need them.' So we offered them to the other states."

A CNN investigation revealed last week that FEMA gave away 121 truckloads of material the agency amassed after 2005's Hurricane Katrina. The material was declared surplus property and offered to federal and state agencies -- including Louisiana, where groups working to resettle hurricane victims say the supplies are still needed.

Paulison told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" his agency distributed more than 90,000 "living kits" to people in Louisiana whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Katrina. The kits included cleaning supplies, mops, brooms, pots and pans.

After CNN reported on the giveaway, Louisiana officials asked that the supplies be redirected to the state, which originally passed on them. John Medica, director of the Louisiana's Federal Property Assistance Agency, told CNN he was unaware Katrina victims still needed the items because no agency had contacted his office.

Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, an outspoken critic of FEMA's response to the hurricane, told CNN the supply giveaway was "just a shame."
1. how many truckloads of materials did FEMA give away?
2. how many living kits were distributed?
3. in total how much was the estimated dollar value of what was given away?
4. who did the director of FEMA blame?
5. when did he defend giving it away?
6. which news agency investigated?
7. what did Sen. Mary Landrieu say about the situation?
8. what year did Hurricane Katrina hit?
9. who said they asked Louisiana if they wanted the supplies?
10. did he talk to wolf blitzer later?
11. on what program?
12. what was included in the kits?
13. who is the director of Lousiana's Federal Property Assistance agency?
14. did he know that victims still needed the items?
15. had anyone contacted him?
Numbered answers:
1. 121
2. more than 90,000
3. $85 million
4. Louisiana officials
5. Sunday
6. CNN
7. supply giveaway was "just a shame."
8. 2005
9. David Paulison
10. yes
11. Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
12. cleaning supplies, mops, brooms, pots and pans.
13. John Medica
14. no
15. no