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Snowe and winning
Snowe was easily reelected in 2000 over State Senate President Mark Lawrence, increasing her winning margin to 69 %- 31 %.
The reason why Snowe won by a landslide even when Democrats were winning across the country is because she is a centrist Republican and thus has a very high approval rating in Maine.

Snowe and seat
At the urging of family, friends, neighbors and local leaders, Snowe ran for her husband's Auburn-based seat in the Maine House of Representatives at the age of 26 and won.
In 1994, when Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell declined to run for re-election, Snowe immediately declared her candidacy for the seat.
In 2001, Snowe became the first Republican woman to secure a full-term seat on the Senate Finance Committee.
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.
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.
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 and on
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 did not miss any of the 657 votes on the Senate floor during the 110th Congress from 2007 to 2009.
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.
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.
( 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.

Snowe and for
In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively ( e. g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts ).
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.
( Maine's other current senator, Olympia Snowe, had also worked for Cohen while he was in the House of Representatives.
Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes, including whether to end filibusters.
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.
Time praised Snowe for her sensitivity to her constituents, also noting that: " Because of her centrist views and eagerness to get beyond partisan point scoring, Maine Republican Olympia Snowe is in the center of every policy debate in Washington.
Snowe ultimately voted for both Roberts and Alito.
In the 110th Congress, Snowe worked to ensure passage of a genetic non-discrimination act, which she had previously worked to pass for nearly eight years ; opposed cutting loans through the Small Business Administration ; offered legislation aimed at reducing the price of prescription drugs and insurance costs for small businesses ; and became a leading voice among Congressional Republicans expressing concerns over President Bush's plans for the privatization of Social Security.
In 2008, Snowe endorsed Republican candidate John McCain for President of the United States.
On October 13, 2009, Snowe voted for the Finance Committee's health care reform bill.
In December 2009, Snowe voted against cloture for two procedural motions and ultimately against the Senate Health Care Reform Bill.
* Olympia Snowe for Senate official campaign site
" Santorum faced criticism for his comments from Republican Senators including Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, and Gordon H. Smith.
In 1989, he married current U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe after the two had been dating for roughly six years.

Snowe and later
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.
In modern times, more liberal Republicans include Rudy Giuliani, Amo Houghton, Colin Powell, Jim Leach, Joseph Cao, Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former Senators Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter, both of whom later left the party.

Snowe and U
Snowe was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1978, and represented Maine's 2nd Congressional District from 1979 to 1995.
While Snowe was First Lady of Maine from 1989 to 1995, she served as a U. S. Representative and was elected and sworn in as a United States Senator.
Snowe was the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the United States House of Representatives ; she is also the first woman to have served in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of the U. S. Congress.
Snowe meets with U. S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.
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.
* U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe official U. S. Senate 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
McKernan and Snowe met while serving in the Maine House of Representatives and again served together in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987.
Seven female senators previously served in the U. S. House of Representatives — a distinction long held by only Margaret Chase Smith — Mikulski, Boxer, Snowe, Lincoln, Stabenow, Cantwell, and Gillibrand.
), and future U. S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe ( R-Me.
Current U. S. senators include Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, John Hoeven of North Dakota, and Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
Incumbent Republican U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe won re-election to a third term.
* Olympia Snowe, incumbent U. S. Senator first elected in 1994 and previously a member of the U. S. House of Representatives.

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