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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Olympia Snowe stories: 39 news summaries

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 White House Probes 
 Minn. Plane Stranding 

Incident 'troubling': transportation sec.

Aug 12, 09 6:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is investigating last weekend’s 9-hour stranding of 47 passengers on a Minnesota airport tarmac, the AP reports. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood says his department's general counsel is determining whether laws were broken in the case. “While we don't yet have all the facts, this incident... More »

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Olympia Snowe • Minnesota • airline delays • Continental Airlines • Barbara Boxer • tarmac • Ray LaHood

Senate Group of 6 Moves Health Reform to the Center

Dems' priorities fall by the wayside

Jul 28, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The bipartisan group of senators who've been hammering out their own health reform plan, led by Montana’s Max Baucus, are close to a compromise that leaves out key pillars of the Obama-backed plan, including the government insurance option to compete with private plans and the mandate that employers offer... More »

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Senate • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus

Senate Votes to Expand
Hate Crime Laws to Gays

Five Republicans join in 62-38 vote

Jul 17, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate has voted to extend hate crime protections to include those attacked because of their gender or sexual orientation, mirroring a similar measure already passed in the House, the Hill reports. Five Republicans, including Olympia Snowe and Dick Lugar, joined all the Democrats present in supporting the bill. Other... More »

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Congress • gay rights • Senate • hate crime • Richard Lugar • Olympia Snowe • gay • Jim DeMint

 10 Who Can Make or 
 Break Health Reform 

Who to watch as debate rages on Capitol Hill

Jul 17, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - As health care talk heats up in Washington, Mark Halperin of Time lists the key players to watch:
  • Sen. Max Baucus is trying to wring out as much GOP support as possible on his finance panel.
  • White House health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle has been winning concessions from the
... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Henry Waxman • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Rahm Emanuel • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Max Baucus • Peter Orszag • Douglas Elmendorf • Nancy-Anne DeParle • Karen Ignagni

OPINION

 6 Conservatives 
 Worth Obama's Time 


Jun 10, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are a few in the conservative camp who the Obama administration respects. “By respect, I mean, quite simply, the degree to which the White House responds to their worries and needs and believes that the time spent responding is useful and necessary,” Marc Ambinder writes in the... More »

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John McCain • White House • Richard Lugar • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party • Susan Collins • David Brooks • Obama administration • President Obama • Jack Goldsmith

 Dems Spoof 
 'Marooned' GOP 

Web ad likens Republicans to Survivor cast

May 6, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new DNC ad touts the latest Survivor series: the GOP edition, the Huffington Post reports. The Web spot begins with Sen. Olympia Snowe, the “Last of the Moderates,” describing how being a Republican moderate can feel like “being a cast member of Survivor,” and goes... More »

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television • reality TV • advertising • parody • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party • Democratic National Committee • advertisements • Survivor • DNC

(Newser) - Arlen Specter’s departure is a “tremendous loss” for the Republican party, made “all the more painful because I believe it didn’t have to be this way,” Sen. Olympia Snowe writes in the New York Times. The party ought to have learned its lesson when... More »

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Arlen Specter • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party

OPINION

 Newt to Specter: 
 Good Riddance 


Apr 29, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich’s take on Arlen Specter’s defection? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, senator. Specter left the party “in spirit” when he cast his vote for “a $787 billion big-spending bill no elected official had even read,” the former speaker... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Arlen Specter • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party

Analysis

Republicans Take Page From Libertarian Book

From tea parties to budget proposals,
GOP changes tune

Apr 22, 09 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - It looks as though the GOP is turning libertarian, says Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. The tea parties it championed last week take their cue from libertarian movement shindigs, and participation was high in libertarian-leaning states like New Hampshire. The GOP’s alternative budget was a like-minded proposal, "dramatically... More »

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New Hampshire • GOP • Mike Huckabee • Olympia Snowe • Ron Paul • libertarian • Glenn Beck • libertarianism • Sarah Palin • Gallup poll • Gallup • political strategy • Nate Silver • Republicans • tea parties

 Senate Centrists Hold 
 House Dems Hostage 

Stick up to Reid, Dems urge Pelosi

Feb 17, 09 3:24 PM CST
(Newser) - The Senate requires 60 votes to avoid filibuster, so the 58-strong Democrats are at the mercy of centrist Republicans Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins. Politico reports that House Dems, who have no trouble passing bills on their own, are unhappy that their legislation has to run this gauntlet.... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Senate • Harry Reid • Arlen Specter • Steny Hoyer • Olympia Snowe • filibuster • Susan Collins • House Democrats • economic stimulus package

analysis

 Obama Needs Maine Senators 

Snowe, Collins are backbone of administration's bipartisan coalition

Feb 12, 09 3:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Maine’s moderate Republican senators find themselves unexpectedly empowered in the Obama era. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, along with Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter, form the bipartisan wedge President Obama can use to get bills—like the stimulus package—past a Senate filibuster. After years of being taken for granted... More »

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GOP • Arlen Specter • Senate Republicans • Maine • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • Obama administration • President Obama

Conservative PAC Puts GOP Stimulus Backers 'On Notice'

Three senators face conservative wrath

Feb 11, 09 8:37 AM CST
(Newser) - So much for bipartisanship. A conservative political action committee is pledging to support primary challenges to the three Republican senators who backed the compromise economic stimulus package, CNN reports. It's the right wing’s latest public show of dissatisfaction with Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter... More »

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Arlen Specter • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • economic stimulus package • bipartisanship • Obama administration • Republican Trust PAC

 Senate Passes Stimulus Bill 


Feb 10, 09 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The Senate passed its version of the $838 billion stimulus bill today, in a 61-37 vote, the Wall Street Journal reports. Three moderate Republicans—Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, and Olympia Snowe—jumped across the aisle to prevent a filibuster. Now the House and Senate must reconcile the differences between... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • Arlen Specter • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • economic stimulus package • Obama administration • financial crisis

President Gets Personal With Swing Senators

Holds highly unusual
1-on-1 meetings with stimulus holdouts

Feb 5, 09 10:22 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama is reaching across the aisle to moderate senators whose votes are crucial to passage of the economic stimulus bill. He put in a call to John McCain, who has been a vocal critic of the bill’s current incarnation. “We'd like to sit down and try to... More »

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John McCain • Senate • Senate Republicans • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • economic stimulus package • Ben Nelson • President Obama • meeting

ANALYSIS

Geithner's Nomination Is Unlikely to Fail

Taxes, schmaxes: Senate wants to know
if he can fix economy

Jan 21, 09 8:44 AM CST
(Newser) - The herculean task awaiting Timothy Geithner is so critical to the nation that a niggling detail like unpaid taxes is unlikely to derail his bid to head up the Treasury Department, writes Deborah Solomon in the Wall Street Journal. While senators will likely press Geithner about his missteps during his... More »

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Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • Senate confirmation hearings • Obama administration • payroll taxes • Treasury secretary • Timothy Geithner • TARP

ANALYSIS

They've Begged Off Obama List (But So Did Hillary)

Use a pencil in crossing Powell, McCaskill, Pritzker, others off administration watch list

Dec 1, 08 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - There is a sizable list of qualified candidates who have expressed no interest in Obama cabinet positions—for now. Noting in the Washington Post that Hillary Clinton once demurred, too, Al Kamen takes a look at a few pols who’ve said no, or haven’t been “approached.... More »

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Barack Obama • Olympia Snowe • Colin Powell • Susan Collins • President Obama • Cabinet secretary • Obama Cabinet • John Brennan • Al Kamen

opinion

 Best Members of Congress 

There are "public servants." Then there are people who actually serve.

Oct 18, 08 4:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's easy, and usually fun, to bash members of Congress. But what about those who deserve praise? Esquire picks some favorites, starting with Rep. Henry Waxman of California; the Democrat has long been the sole member not only criticizing the Bush team's missteps but actually investigating them. Then there's principled... More »

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Congress • Henry Waxman • Senate • House of Representatives • Olympia Snowe • Jeff Flake • Ike Skelton • Election 2008

Romney Wins Maine Caucuses

He will likely earn 18 delegates in lightly contested contest

Feb 2, 08 10:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Mitt Romney easily won the lightly contested Maine caucuses tonight. Though the caucuses amount to a nonbinding preference poll,  Romney will likely gain all of the state's 18 delegates to the national convention, the AP reports.  With about 70% of precincts reporting in, Romney had 52%, McCain 21%,... More »

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Mitt Romney • Maine • Olympia Snowe • Ron Paul • caucus

Hagel, Snowe Jump Ship

Number of GOP defectors backing withdrawal plan
 climbs to 3

Jul 11, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two more Republican senators crossed party lines today to back legislation that calls for the US to start pulling out of Iraq within 4 months and withdraw by April. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Maine's Olympia Snowe of Maine signed on on as co-sponsors of the measure, along with Oregon's... More »

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Iraq • Congress • Republican • Senate • troop withdrawal • Maine • Olympia Snowe • Gordon Smith • senator • Iraq war

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