Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
AARP supported the bipartisan bill put forward by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), along with Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Gordon Smith (R-OR), as an important opportunity to improve Medicare.
ONE (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) are the latest singers of the Lugar-Sununu letter to the Senate Majority and Minority leaders. That letter asks Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell to do everything in their power to get PEPFAR, America’s primary vehicle for fighting HIV/AIDS in the developing world to the Senate floor [...]
Mediabuyerplanner (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Two more senators have weighed in on the potential satcaster marriage of XM and Sirius. If the FCC approves the merger, Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) want certain conditions...
Orbitcast (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today voicing their concerns about the pending merger between Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. While the merger was "recently approved" (that is... nearly two months ago ) by the Justice Department, the Senators say that they believe the merger "could possibly undermine...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) were joined by passenger advocate Kate Hanni at a press conference on Capitol Hill today to call for prompt Senate passage of the Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights, legislation sponsored by Senators Boxer and Snowe.
Raising Kaine - Front Page (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
I love how only two Republicans -- Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine -- voted for the Senate budget resolution . I guess the other Republicans would rather continue policies that favor the super-wealthy at the expense of the other 99% of Americans. They'd also rather continue running up huge budget deficits and contributing to the country's growing economic crisis by so doing. Finally, they'd...
Liberally Conservative (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
I say “Obamicans” are “lost in the wilderness” but actually I believe they only think they are Republicans or are factions that are uneducated in the fine points of “Conservativism” and have Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME) as political heroes. Obamicans are living proof the GOP has gone away from Ronald Reagan and it's no wonder so [...]
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
Mark Statin's “Radical Middle” site has created a list of the Centrists in Congress. “There Is a Radical Middle in Congress, and Its Stars Are Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Rep. Rush Holt(D-NJ)” December 2007. This month we polled 21 leading radical centrist thinkers and activists to determine the “Best Radical Middle or Post-Partisan Members of Congress.” They not only pinpointed Sen. Snowe and Rep....
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
PORTLAND, Maine -- Sens. Olympia Snowe of Maine and Jack Reed of Rhode Island are calling on the Bush administration to provide at least $14 million to lobstermen to help them comply with a new rule banning floating rope. A...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
Congress left for its Turkey Day break without passing the appropriations bills needed to continue funding government programs, including the war effort.So, who does the ? Two of the few GOP Senators who crossed the line to vote with Democrats on the defeat and retreat bills that provide funding with timelines and deadlines; Sen. Gordon Smith and Sen. Olympia Snowe.And Republicans in the narrowly divided...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
Congress left for its Thanksgiving recess Friday without passing a bill to pay for the war in Iraq after the Senate deadlocked over a Democratic demand that the measure include a call for most troops to be withdrawn by the end of next year. As they have all...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
WASHINGTON — Congress left for its Thanksgiving recess Friday without passing a bill to pay for the war in Iraq after the Senate deadlocked over a Democratic demand that the measure require troops to be withdrawn by the end of next year. As they have all year, Senate Democrats failed to muster the votes to consider a proposal to condition further spending on a timeline for withdrawing troops. The $50...
Big Brass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Democrats unable to bring troops home Associated Press: Frustrated by Republican roadblocks, Democrats now plan to sit on President Bush's $196 billion request for war spending until next year pushing the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare and deepening their conflict with the White House on the war. Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a $50 billion bill by Democrats that would have paid for...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Anne Flaherty, from The Associated Press, reports, "The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal that would have paid for the Iraq war but required that troops start coming home."
Complete Free Press Newswire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Bill Moyers reports on the growing public outrage as FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tries to push through media ownership rules that will increase consolidation.
