Olympia Snowe

Sam Stein

Snowe Says No Public Option, White House Says "That's Democracy"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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The Senate Finance Committee will not include a public option in its health care bill, one of the key Republican negotiators said on Friday -- to whi...

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Like Cash for Clunkers? You'll Love Feebates!

David Roberts | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, Jeff Bingaman, Feebates, Fuel Efficiency, John Kerry, Richard Lugar, Olympia Snowe, Green Energy, Green News
David Roberts

If we've learned anything from Cash for Clunkers, it's that direct, tangible incentives drive behavior--much more and faster than what economic projections indicate. We've used those incentives for economic stimulus. Now we should put them to work increasing the fuel efficiency of the whole American fleet.

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Tea Party Organizers Admit: No Reform Is Goal

The Plum Line | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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On a private conference call, a group of top Tea Party and conservative organizers offered a surprisingly frank description of their goal, according t...

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Olympia Snowe: GOP "No" Votes On Sotomayor Could Alienate Hispanics

National Journal Online | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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Olympia Snowe said today that her Republican colleagues' pending "no" votes on Sonia Sotomayor raise "a serious concern" about alienating their Hispan...

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Republicans, Healthcare and Money

Stu Kreisman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Max Baucus, Mark Sanford, First Amendment, Dick Armey, President Obama, Jeff Bingaman, Charles Grassley, Bobby Jindal, Olympia Snowe, Tea Baggers, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Politics News, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, John Enzi, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Birthers, Rick Perry, Health Care Reform, Kent Conrad, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics News
Stu Kreisman

All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?

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Health Policy Hashed Out In Senate Over Unhealthy Food

The New York Times | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Michael B. Enzi, Jeff Bingaman, Cbo, Chuck Grassley, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicaid, Max Baucus, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Politics News

On the agenda is the revamping of the American health care system, possibly the most complex legislation in modern history. But on the table, in a con...

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"Let Them Eat Cake": As 22K Die Annually, Elites Ask "What's the Rush on Health Care?"

David Sirota | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Republican Health Care, Ben Nelson, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
David Sirota

My question again: How is debating something for more than six decades a "rush?"

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While Congress Dallies, Desperate Americans Seek Free Health Care

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Ron Wyden, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Stan Brock, Universal Healthcare, Remote Area Medical, Olympia Snowe, Joe Lieberman, Ram, Mary Landrieu, Healthcare, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

The day before six centrist Senators signed a letter to halt health care reform, citizens were lining up for health care provided by Remote Area Medical, a non-profit relief corps dedicated to providing free health care.

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Senators Call for Health Care Delay, Receive Big Campaign Contributions

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Ron Wyden, Ben Nelson, Congress, Health, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Health Care, Transparency, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

Six senators called for a seventy day hold on voting on health care reform legislation today. Each of these senators has raised at least $1 million from the health and insurance sectors over their careers.

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Ryan Grim

Gang Of Six Centrist Senators Demands Delay On Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Ron Wyden, Health Care Delay, Health Care Reform, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman, Politics News

A bipartisan group of centrist and conservative senators sent a letter to the Democratic and Republican leaders on Friday urging delay in consideratio...

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What 60 Democratic Senate Votes Really Means: Welcome to the Age of Ben Nelson

Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Diane Feinstein, Olympia Snowe, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Al Franken, Filibuster, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe lost a huge amount of power yesterday. The battle to get to 60 votes was focused primarily on them, but now the focus will be on moderate Democrats rather than moderate Republicans.

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Sam Stein

Snowe's Ties To Health Care Industry Raise Concern As Reform Talk Heats Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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The Senate Republican who is front and center in the health care debate has received more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the health ca...

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Time to Trash the Trigger

Mike Lux | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wyden Amendment, Health Care for America Now, Senate Finance Committee, Olympia Snowe, Politics News
Mike Lux

If conservative Democrats force the adoption of the trigger, a proposal that will kill the public option in health care insurance, it will destroy Democratic unity and doom health care reform.

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Five Current Republican Senators Voted For Sotomayor in '98

Politico | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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A bit of relevant history: Five Seven current Senate Republicans -- plus Arlen Specter -- voted for Sonia Sotomayor during her highly contested federa...

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GOP Sen. Snowe Shows Support for Public Health Plan

Stefan Deeran | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Stefan Deeran

Snowe believes that a government-run health care system may be the only way to respond to the health care crisis.

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Club for Growth

Kate Clinton | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Gop, Club for Growth, Pat Toomey, Democrats, Democrat Socialist Party, Republican Party, Monty Python, Politics News
Kate Clinton

A strong moderate Republican Party might save the Democrats from themselves but not by trying tag it "the Democrat-Socialist Party," calling for secessions or tea-bagging its way into activism.

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Filbusters and Holds Have No Place on Confirmations

Sandy Maisel | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dawn Johnsen, Obama Nominees, David Hayes, Senator Robert Bennett, Senate Holds, Olympia Snowe, David Souter, Filibuster, Ken Salazar, John Kyl, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

Holds are inherently undemocratic. The filibuster was never meant to be used for such purposes. And it is time for the United States Senate to mend its ways.

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Palin v. McCain, Round Two

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Meghan McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Olympia Snowe, Bristol Palin, Christian Right, National Council for a New America, Frank Rich, Republican Party, Eric Cantor, Jeb Bush, Politics News
Nancy L. Cohen

Will the GOP continue as the zombie of American politics, returning to life after each purported death, more monstrous in each incarnation?

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Specter: Loyal Opportunists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.

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The Grand Old Party of Secession

Manisha Sinha | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jack Kemp, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Rick Perry Secession, Olympia Snowe, Glen Beck, Republican Party, Arlen Specter Democrat, Politics News
Manisha Sinha

Commentators view the rapid exit of moderates like Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania from the GOP as a culmination of its increasing political narrowness and ideological rigidity.

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Specter Switch: Another "Win" for the Grand Old Purity!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

Pure like ice. Pure like fire. That's the way they wanted it. That's the way they'd have it, and they'd leave no tone unspurned. Only true believer...

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Left and Right Miss Lesson of Specter Switch

Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Kathleen Sebelius, Judge David Hamilton, Olympia Snowe, Democratic Senate, Fillibuster, Arlen Specter Democrat, Arlen Specter Switch, Fillibuster-Proof-Senate, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

The Specter switch should be more than a wake-up call for Republicans. It should be a sign for all in Washington that the governing process is out of whack.

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What? "Political Self-Preservation?" Shocking!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

Spector's no dummy. He knows the highly effective and stauchly conservative Club for Growth will lavish support and money on a much more radically right-wing 2010 GOP primary opponent.

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Olympia Snowe: We Didn't Have To Lose Specter

New York Times | OLYMPIA SNOWE | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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IT is disheartening and disconcerting, at the very least, that here we are today -- almost exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords left the Rep...

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Sam Stein

Limbaugh To Specter: Take McCain And His Daughter With You

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Specter, Arlen Specter, Limbaugh, Specter Democrat, Michael Steele, Specter Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh Republicans, David Frum, Politics News

Reaction from top GOP officials to the defection of Sen. Arlen Specter has been decidedly mixed. The less orthodox are interpreting the news as a vali...

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