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Olympia Snowe

From Franklin to Snowe, Women Take Charge to Take Care

Marie Wilson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Women, Congressional Womens Caucus, Ecoomy, President Obama, Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Shirley Franklin, Healthcare, Politics News
Marie Wilson

From health care to economics, our nation's women are proving to be the essential ingredient to getting the job done.

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Why, Oh Why, Do They Never Listen?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Switzerland, Paul Krugman, Health Reform, Obama Taxes, Barack Obama, Olympia Snowe, Health Care, Public Option Trigger, Rahm Emanuel, Health Taxes, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Let's not pretend Democratic health reform doesn't include new taxes -- and mandated fee payments to profitable private companies. If their bill passes in this form they'll pay a heavy political price for it. And they'll deserve it.

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Sam Stein

Olympia Snowe Targeted By Progressives In New Ad Blitz (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Snowe Ad, Olympia Snowe, Ad Blitz, Health Care Ads, Ad Campaign, Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, Health Care Politiccs, Video, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

All eyes in the health care debate have turned to Maine, where Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has emerged as the key vote on a public option for ins...

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Snowe Praises Obama On Health Care, Criticizes Republican Colleagues

New York Times | JOHN HARWOOD | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe New York Times Interview, Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Times Interview, Snowe Times Interview, Snowe Health Care, Snowe, Politics News

Ms. Snowe has not endorsed either Democratic health care bill in the Senate. No Republican has. But in an interview, she offered a surprisingly rob...

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Rockefeller: GOP Bringing "The Hammer" Down On Snowe

The Plum Line | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Jay Rockefeller, Snowe Gop Hammer, Olympia Snowe Public Option, Snowe Public Option, Politics News

There's a very revealing moment in an interview that public option hero Jay Rockefeller gave to Ezra Klein. Rockefeller suggests he has first-hand kno...

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The Gang of Six: An Epic of Futility

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Ron Wyden, Jay Rockefeller, Jeff Bingaman, Charles Grassley, Senate Finance Committee, Olympia Snowe, Congress, Mike Enzi, Barack Obama, Obama and Health Care, Max Baucus and Health Care, Congress and Health Care, Max Baucus, Chuck Grassley, Kent Conrad, Bipartisanship, Senate, Gang of Six, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

The Baucus Caucus came to town one morning in the early spring, / They said, "You want a health-care bill? Don't sweat -- we'll handle ev'rything!"

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Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan

Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe Health Care, Robert Reich, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Robert Reich

Here's what's likely to happen if Snowe signs on to the Baucus bill, and if she doesn't. The next few weeks are crucial.

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Mad Max Baucus (D-BC/BS) and his Gang of Styx

Don Parker | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Styx River, Jeff Bingaman, Charles Grassley, Fargo North Dakota, Olympia Snowe, Albuquerque New Mexico, Billings Montana, Mike Enzi, Mad Max, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Gang of Styx, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Gang of Six, Politics News
Don Parker

The Gang of Styx represent 8.4 million Americans, but they have been given more dollars from the health care industry than they have constituents.

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Are We Finally Done With This Bipartisanship BS?

Dan Sweeney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Health Care, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

Max Baucus, in his insistence on bipartisan reform, is almost entirely responsible for the brain-cell-killing month of 'deathers' and 'birthers' we have had to endure.

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Daily Pulse: Has Baucus Pulled Snowe's Trigger?

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill, Public Option Trigger, Senate Finance Committee, Public Option, Health Insurers, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Gang of Six, Private Insurers, Health Care, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

To progressives, adopting the "wait and see" approach is like giving Bernie Madoff another five years to run his Ponzi scheme, just to make absolutely sure he's a crook.

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Dems May Be Walking Into Republican Health Care "Trap"

Politics Daily | David Corn | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Gang of Six, Democrats, Politics News

Are the Democrats about to walk into a Republican trap on health care? As I monitor the latest back and forth, I feel as if I'm watching a cheesy horr...

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Obama: Confident Congress Will Pass "Good Health Care Bill"

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Federal Budget Deficit, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, Robert Gibbs, Healthcare Costs, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Cong...

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Gang Of Six: Who Votes With Whom?

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Transparency, Gang of Six, Max Baucus, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Jeff Bingaman, Chuck Grassley, Olympia Snowe, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Home News

Since the end of July the Senate Finance Committee has been the focus of health care reform discussions. More specifically, the bipartisan “Gang...

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Hatch: I Sincerely Doubt Snowe Or Collins Will Support Health Care Reform

Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Orrin Hatch, Obama Health Care Speech, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, Republicans, President Obama, Politics News

What did conservative Republicans think of President Obama's health care speech last night? Not very much, apparently. Sen Orrin Hatch (R-UT)--who, yo...

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The President's Speech

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Joint Session, Senate, Congress, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Ben Nelson, President, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The President gives a great speech. He challenged politicians and Americans to do "great things," because that is "who we are." Once more, he offers his hand; once more it is spit upon.

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Hitting the Jackpot

Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Public Option, 2009 Obama Administration, Speeches, Joint Session of Congress, Olympia Snowe, Barack Obama, Health Care Speech, Fdr, Ben Nelson, Jfk, Politics News
Mike Lux

This was one of the very best Presidential speeches I have ever heard. And more importantly, Barack Obama did everything he needed to do.

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Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Blanche Lincoln, Cloture, Robert Bennett, Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, Filibuster, Judd Gregg, Glen Beck, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, James Webb, Richard Lugar, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

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Despite Fears, Health Care Overhaul Is Moving Ahead

New York Times | Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The conventional wisdom, here and around the country, is that the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic agenda -- remaking the healt...

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Obama Healthcare Speech: How To Watch it

New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Raul Grijalva, Mike Ross, Ben Nelson, Senior Citizens, Chuck Grassley, Public Option, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Mary Landrieu, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

In his speech to Congress at 8 p.m. Wednesday, President Obama will press his case for major health care legislation, not just with lawmakers in the a...

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Ryan Grim

Snowe: Obama Speech Not A Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Olympia Snowe Obama, Health Care, Gang of Six, Olympia Snowe Gang of Six, Olympia Snowe, Politics News

The Senate Finance Committee shouldn't feel any pressure to come to an agreement on a bipartisan health-care reform bill before President Obama's Wedn...

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Why the President Has Been Losing on Health Care, and What He Needs to Say

Drew Westen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Speech on Health Care, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Death Panels, Olympia Snowe, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, Pension Plans, George Bush, Washington Post, Taxpayers, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Al Qaeda, 401k, Bill Clinton, Brown v Board of Education, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Medicare, Medicaid, Electronic Records, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News
Drew Westen

At this historic moment, the White House has determined that the best way to win the center is to tack right. But sometimes, the best way to win the center is not to move to the center, but to move the center.

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Taking Things Off the Table

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama absolutely loves the phrase "everything's on the table." But the time for piling "everything" on "the table" is over. Everything being on the table means that no decisions have been made.

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Health Care - Like Education - a Public Good

Sandy Maisel | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Phil Gingrey, Education, Charles Grassley, Blue Dog Democrats, Olympia Snowe, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

How can we be proud as a nation that we have universal, free public education, but not health care? Can that possibly make sense?

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Gang Of Six Back In Action: Giving Bipartisanship One More Try

POLITICO | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Jeff Bingaman, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Olympia Snowe, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Most top Democrats, including senior White House advisers, may no longer expect a health care deal out of the bipartisan "Group of Six," but the senat...

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Obama, GOP's Snowe Working On Health Care Reform Compromise: Sources

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Barack Obama, Health, Health Care Reform, Obama and Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform Compromise, Health Care, Politics News

President Obama and White House aides have been talking directly with Sen. Olympia Snowe about health care reform, R-Maine, who has proposed an altern...

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