Snowe meets with sailors returning from Iraq, at Maine's Naval Air Station Brunswick.

Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different to her own, and where she falls in love with a man (' Paul Emanuel ') whom she cannot marry.

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.

Although she shares a centrist ideology with Maine's senior Senator, Olympia Snowe, Collins is considered a " half-turn more conservative " than Snowe.

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.

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.

Snowe shares a centrist ideology with Maine's junior Senator, Susan Collins, who is considered a " half-turn more conservative " than Snowe.

Serving her fourteenth term in the House of Representatives, Kaptur is the dean of Ohio's congressional delegation, the longest currently-serving woman in the House and the second longest-serving ever after Edith Rogers ; in the Congress, she is currently tied for the third longest-serving woman with Senator Barbara Boxer, behind Senators Barbara Mikulski and Olympia Snowe.

The most Democratic-leaning state to have two Republican Senators is Maine, with Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.

Suikoden IV begins its tale with a training session ( for both the player and the characters ), where the Hero ( named by the player in the game and identified in the Japanese novelization as Lazlo ) and his best friend Snowe Vingerhut face off against their Commander and Vice Commander, Glen and Katarina respectively, out at sea.

Olympia Snowe was unopposed for the Republican nomination ; Jean Hay Bright narrowly won the Democratic nod with 50. 7 % of the vote against Eric Mehnert.

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.

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 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.

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

In 1989, he married current U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe after the two had been dating for roughly six years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Villette marked Charlotte's return to writing from a first-person perspective ( that of Lucy Snowe ), a technique she used successfully in Jane Eyre.

This provision of McCain-Feingold, sponsored by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Vermont Independent James Jeffords, as introduced applied only to for-profit corporations, but was extended to incorporate non-profit issue organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund or the National Rifle Association, as part of the " Wellstone Amendment ," sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone.

* Olympia Snowe ( b. 1947 ), US Senator from Maine

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.

In between speeches by Snowe and Dorgan, Stevens gave a vehement 11-minute speech using colorful language to explain his opposition to the amendment.

After Doxat retired in 1857, Clement's heirs sold the paper to Joseph Snowe, who also took over the editor's chair.

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.

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 ).

Joseph Snowe has related the tale of a kobold at Alte Burg: When two students slept in the mill in which the creature lived, one of them ate the offering of food the miller had left the kobold.

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

" Senator Olympia Snowe said " People like Paul Coverdell exist in the world — good, honorable, trustworthy people who call us to our better nature.

Yet the Rockefeller Republican label is sometimes applied to such modern-day politicians as Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins of Maine and Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

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.

Olympia Jean Snowe ( née Bouchles ; born February 21, 1947 ) is the senior United States Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party.