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07/03/11 Maine's U.S. senators will have their walking shoes on during the 4th of July. Sen. Olympia Snowe will celebrate the nation's 235th Independence Day by marching in the Bangor-Brewer and Eastport parades. The first begins at 11 a.m. and Eastport's starts at 2 p.m.
06/23/11 WASHINGTON -- Requiring federal agencies to do a better job periodically assessing whether a regulation's effect on small businesses is needlessly burdensome would be an economic "game-changer," said Sen. Olympia Snowe.
06/03/11 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe is charging that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration discriminated against the town of Fort Kent because of its remote location in extreme northern Maine.
06/03/11 Associated Press - June 3, 2011 12:34 PM ET PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe is charging that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration discriminated against the town of...
05/28/11 FRANKFORT, Maine -- A young man whom Sen. Olympia Snowe has credited with helping inspire federal legislation to deter "repugnant protests" during military funerals is hoping to make it to Washington, D.C., for an upcoming committee hearing for the bill. Snowe and 13 bipartisan co-sponsors introduced the SERVE Act in ...
05/28/11 WASHINGTON -- When Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe broke ranks with GOP leadership last week and joined three fellow Republicans in voting against the House GOP's budget plan for the next fiscal year, you could almost hear the chant from their right flank.
05/25/11 Maine's Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe join three Republicans and every Democrat in killing the bill.
05/19/11 The U.S. Navy says it will send the USS Nitze to visit Eastport during its 2011 Fourth of July Festival. Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins announced Wednesday that the ship will visit. The senators wrote to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus last month requesting the visit. The USS Nit . . .
05/19/11 WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe remains by far the wealthiest member of Maine's congressional delegation, but the financial portfolio of Snowe and her husband, former Gov. John McKernan, took a hit a last year.
05/06/11 WASHINGTON -- Maine's Olympia Snowe has long thrived as one of the Senate's leading GOP moderates, but she has recently sided with the tea party on high-profile votes involving Libya, the budget and the environment as she braces for a primary challenge from the right.
05/06/11 (05-06) 09:48 PDT WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- Maine's Olympia Snowe has long thrived as one of the Senate's leading GOP moderates, but she has recently sided with tea partyers on high-profile votes involving Libya, the...
04/17/11 There's been a lot of talk lately about potential re-election troubles for U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe.
03/31/11 PORTLAND -- A Portland man charged with sending threatening letters to Gov. Paul LePage admitted to agents that he sent those and other threatening letters to national political figures, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, according to testimony Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
03/22/11 PORTLAND, Maine -- Sen. Olympia Snowe spoke with job seekers Tuesday at a busy career fair and said government needs to provide businesses with the confidence to invest in new workers and capital equipment. Hundreds crowded into the job fair, held at the Italian Heritage Center, many looking for work ...
03/12/11 Republicans such as Indiana's Dick Lugar and Maine's Olympia Snowe are targets of Tea Party and Democrats.
03/03/11 A group of 18 U.S. senators, led by Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), urged government agencies Thursday to take action to prevent foreclosures and help families keep their homes.
02/20/11 WASHINGTON -- Jason Levesque caught flak from fellow Republican conservatives last fall when he accepted U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe's offer to campaign with him during his unsuccessful bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud.
02/17/11 WASHINGTON -- What does a longtime Republican senator with a national reputation for working well with Democrats do in the face of a potentially career-ending tea party challenge? If you're Richard Lugar of Indiana, you tell them to "get real." If you're Olympia Snowe of Maine, you fight off the ...
02/16/11 A communications expert who worked for both Sen. Olympia Snowe and former Gov. John McKernan Jr. has died, just after taking a post with Maine Secretary of State Charles Summers Jr. W. Davis Lackey Jr., 46, was well-known to the Maine media, having served as communications director for two different ...
02/11/11 (02-11) 15:07 PST Portland, Maine (AP) -- The Maine coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots says he will run against U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe in the 2012 Republican primary. Andrew Ian Dodge of Harpswell announced Friday...
01/09/11 - Sen. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have announced their nominees to U.S. Military Academies from Cumberland and York counties: | 
