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

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 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.

On October 13, 2009, Snowe voted for the Finance Committee's health care reform bill.

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

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.

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 ).

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.

( 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

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.

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 supported both President Clinton's involvement in Kosovo and President George W. Bush's invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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.

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.

Snowe, who had been elected to both of her previous terms by approximately 2 to 1 margins, had never lost an election.

Snowe meets with U. S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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