When the motion failed, both Snowe and Collins subsequently voted to acquit, believing that while Clinton had broken the law by committing perjury, the charges did not amount to grounds for removal from office.

When the motion failed, Snowe and Collins voted to acquit, arguing that Clinton's perjury did not warrant his removal from office.

When Snowe announced in February 2012 that she would not seek re-election, it was reported that she and Democrat Ben Nelson had the closest overlap of any two members of the U. S. Senate.

Democrats ' best hope for taking the seat was that Snowe would retire rather than run in 2006, but there was never any indication that Snowe seriously considered not running for re-election.

Snowe won re-election by a greater margin than any U. S. Senator that cycle except Indiana's Richard Lugar, who faced only a Libertarian opponent.

Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes, including whether to end filibusters.

She has never lost an election in 35 years as an elected official, and in the 2006 midterm senatorial elections, Snowe won with a reported 73. 99 % of votes.

Senators Olympia Snowe ( R-ME ) and Byron Dorgan ( D-ND ) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have inserted strong network neutrality mandates into the bill.

Subsequent to the 2006 midterm election, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced ( along with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine ) the formation of the " Common Ground Coalition ", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.

A legend recorded by folklorist Joseph Snowe from a place called Alte Burg in 1839 tells of a creature " in the shape of a short, thick-set being, neither boy nor man, but akin to the condition of both, garbed in a party-coloured loose surcoat, and wearing a high-crowned hat with a broad brim on his diminutive head.

However, unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted guilty on the second article.

In the 1990s, Collins played an important role during the U. S. Senate's impeachment trial of Bill Clinton when she and fellow Maine Senator Olympia Snowe sponsored a motion that would have allowed the Senate to vote separately on the charges and the remedy.

In 1999 she was one of only four Republicans ( along with her colleague Olympia Snowe ) to vote for a Wellstone amendment to the Trade and Development Act of 2000 which would have conditioned trade benefits for Caribbean countries on " compliance with internationally recognized labor rights.

On February 28, 2012, Snowe announced that she will not seek reelection in November 2012, and will retire when her third term ends on January 3, 2013.

Snowe entered politics and rose quickly, winning a seat on the Board of Voter Registration and working for Congressman ( later U. S. Senator and U. S. Secretary of Defense ) William Cohen.

Snowe is the fourth woman to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the first to chair its seapower subcommittee, which oversees the Navy and Marine Corps.

In 2001, Snowe became the first Republican woman to secure a full-term seat on the Senate Finance Committee.

On May 23, 2005, Snowe was one of fourteen senators dubbed the Gang of 14, who defused a confrontation between Senate Democrats ( who were filibustering several judicial nominees ) and the Senate Republican leadership ( who wanted to use the nominations as a flashpoint to eliminate filibusters on nominees through the so-called nuclear option ).

Snowe supports legalized abortion and some gay rights, and though she previously voted to block the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, she was one of eight Republican senators to vote for the repeal on December 18, 2010.

Snowe again voted against health care reform when she voted " no " on the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

On February 17, 2011, Senator Olympia Snowe ( ME ) and on May 24, 2011, Representative Steve Israel ( NY-2 ) reintroduced legislation in the Senate and House, respectively, that the Secretary of Defense concerned may issue a service medal, to be known as the ` Cold War Service Medal ', to Cold War veterans who meet the criteria.

The six Republican senators who voted against conviction on both charges were John Chafee of Rhode Island, Susan Collins of Maine, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, William V. Roth, Jr. of Delaware, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

On February 29, 2012, an Associated Press story mentioned that Pingree was starting to circulate petitions to run for the U. S. Senate seat that was vacated by the retirement of Olympia Snowe, which she confirmed on The Rachel Maddow Show later that night.

( Later, depending on the player's actions, the Hero either tracks Snowe down and befriends him again, tracks him down and executes him, or just forgets about him entirely.

In 1994, when Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell declined to run for re-election, Snowe immediately declared her candidacy for the seat.

Snowe was part of the Republican election sweep of 1994, when the Republican party captured both the House and Senate for the first time since 1954.

Snowe was easily reelected in 2000 over State Senate President Mark Lawrence, increasing her winning margin to 69 %- 31 %.

Her surprise decision delivered a potential blow to Republicans who need just a handful of seats to regain control of the Senate ; Ms. Snowe was considered one of their safer incumbents.

In December 2009, Snowe voted against cloture for two procedural motions and ultimately against the Senate Health Care Reform Bill.

* Nine & Counting: The Women of the Senate, Boxer, Collins, Snowe et al., ISBN 0-06-095706-9.

* U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe official U. S. Senate site

* Olympia Snowe for Senate official campaign site

* U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe video clips from the Senate Republican Conference.

* U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe audio clips from the Senate Republican Conference

In 2012 he announced his candidacy for U. S. Senate in Maine to fill the seat vacated by retiring Senator Olympia Snowe.

On March 5, 2012, King announced that he is running for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by Olympia Snowe.

He later served in the U. S. Senate as a senior aide to U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe, an influential moderate Republican from Maine, who Time magazine named one of the top 10 U. S. Senators in 2006.

Andrews lost the Senate election to his 2nd District colleague, Republican Olympia Snowe by a wide margin.

From January 26, 2009 to January 3, 2011, seventeen women served concurrently in the Senate for the first time. Left to right: Standing: Lisa Murkowski | Murkowski, Blanche Lincoln | Lincoln, Claire McCaskill | McCaskill, Debbie Stabenow | Stabenow, Maria Cantwell | Cantwell, Kirsten Gillibrand | Gillibrand, Kay Bailey Hutchison | Hutchison, Barbara Mikulski | Mikulski, Patty Murray | Murray, Mary Landrieu | Landrieu, Barbara Boxer | Boxer, Olympia Snowe | Snowe Seated: Kay Hagan | Hagan, Dianne Feinstein | Feinstein, Jeanne Shaheen | Shaheen, Susan Collins | Collins, Amy Klobuchar | Klobuchar

Under Snowe, the paper adopted a more liberal political stance, supporting the North during the American Civil War and endorsing universal manhood suffrage in 1866.

Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during Clinton's impeachment ( the others were Richard Shelby of Alabama, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Slade Gorton of Washington and Fred Thompson of Tennessee ).

Snowe was an important voice during the Senate's 1999 impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton.