Olympia Snowe

...and is a near certain vote against any Democratic health care plan. However, Senate leaders hope to persuade moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who voted for a Democratic bill in the Finance Committee, to back final legislation. The...

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Read More: Collins Snowe, Maine Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe, Reid Maine Republicans, Susan Collins, Susan Collins Olympia Snowe, Politics News Anxious that Saturday's party-line Senate vote to open debate on a health care overhaul...

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...still consider would trigger a public plan in states where the private insurance industry fails to offer affordable choices. Senator Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, presented this approach to a bipartisan group of Senate Finance...

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...10:46 PM Don't mean to give you more indigestion on a Saturday night, but thought you should see this from The Hill: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)…is still in talks with President Barack Obama regarding her final vote on the legislation.

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As it stands, Snowe said she is not happy with Reid's package, and has informed him that he will not have her vote Saturday. But Snowe said she would seek to amend the measure to lighten the financial burden it would place on small...

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This afternoon, I asked Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) whether she'd been looped in on an idea, floated recently by Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), to tweak her proposal to affix a public option to a trigger mechanism. Indeed she and Carper have...

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...for onerous paperwork, meager bank participation, and high default rates. Maine's Senator Snowe now wants to repeal it Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) introduced a bill Nov. 16 to repeal the small business ARC loan program, a stimulus-package...

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...reform (Drucker, 11/16). See the full list of profiles here. In a separate story, Roll Call profiles Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, whose "support will be crucial in crafting a more moderate compromise bill that ultimately is expected to...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING WATERVILLE, Maine-Sen. Olympia Snowe says it's unrealistic to expect final votes on a health care reform bill before Christmas. While visiting downtown Waterville on Wednesday, the Maine...

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...a Beck crusade there - to scramble the usual political assumptions. The real question, of course, is what Olympia Snowe thinks when she sees this poll: that she's probably finished with today's GOP and should keep her independent streak...

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