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Patrick Joseph "Pat" Toomey (born November 17, 1961) is a United States politician; he was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He represented the 15th Congressional district from 1999 to January 2005, but retired at the end of his last Congressional term.
In 2004, he challenged incumbent Senator Arlen Specter in the Republican primary election. Toomey, aided by $2 million of advertising from the Club for Growth (a conservative political action committee that focuses on fiscal issues), criticized Specter as a spendthrift in the conservative Republican party of Pennsylvania, and lost by a 1.7% margin (about 17,000 votes out of a million cast). Toomey's campaign theme was that Specter, a moderate-to-liberal figure, was not conservative enough to be the Republican nominee.
In January 2005, Toomey replaced Stephen Moore as president of the Club for Growth.
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