Snowe is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership and supports stem cell research.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

* In Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette, the protagonist Lucy Snowe calls an actress she admires Vashti.

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.

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.

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.

* Olympia Snowe, incumbent U. S. Senator first elected in 1994 and previously a member of the U. S. House of Representatives.

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 ).

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

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.

Snowe ultimately voted for both Roberts and Alito.

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.

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.

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.

( Maine's other current senator, Olympia Snowe, had also worked for Cohen while he was in the House of Representatives.

Snowe was born Olympia Jean Bouchles in Augusta, Maine, the daughter of Georgia ( née Goranites ) and George John Bouchles.

Following her mother's death, Snowe was sent to St.

Tragedy struck Snowe again in 1973, when her husband was killed in an automobile accident.

Snowe was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1978, and represented Maine's 2nd Congressional District from 1979 to 1995.

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 %.

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

In April 2006, Snowe was selected by Time as one of " America's 10 Best Senators.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

In February 2006, TheWhiteHouseProject. org named Snowe one of its " 8 in ' 08 ", a group of eight female politicians who could possibly run and / or be elected president in 2008.

Snow cream, also known as Snow ( obsolete spelling Snowe ), can be one of two distinct desserts.

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.