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.

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 ).

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

* 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.

Incumbent Republican U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe won re-election to a third term.

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.

* 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

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.

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