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H/T Instapundit Snowe, Collins decline invitation to Obama event The Hill By Eric Zimmermann 04/01/10 Both Maine Senators declined the White House’s invitation to attend President Obama’s event in their home state today, according to White House spokesman Bill Burton. Burton said the Maine Republicans decided not to attend Obama’s healthcare speech in Portland, […] April 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Sen. Olympia Snowe, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Maine | Comments are closed
Two top senators urged the Obama administration on Monday to transfer the suspect in the failed Christmas Day airline bombing to the Pentagon, blasting the Justice Department for reading him his Miranda rights and treating him like a common criminal. FoxNews.com January 25, 2010 Two top senators urged the Obama administration on Monday to transfer […] January 26th, 2010 | Tags: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Sen. Susan Collins, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab | Category: Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, terrorism | Comments are closed
Sunday, December 20, 2009 U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced today her decision to vote against the final health care bill unveiled by Majority Leader Harry Reid on Saturday. Following is her statement: “Our nation’s health care system requires substantial reform. The status quo of soaring health care costs, families struggling, millions uninsured, and health care […] Two senators on Friday offered yet another approach to tackling climate change, proposing the U.S. government sell pollution allowances to industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions and then use most of the money to send tax-free monthly checks to every American. Associated Press/FoxNews.com December 11, 2009 WASHINGTON — Two senators on Friday offered yet another […] December 13th, 2009 | Tags: Sen. Maria Cantwell, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: Cap and Trade, Economy, Taxes, unemployment | Comments are closed
by Donny Shaw OpenCongress.org December 1, 2009 For months, Olympia Snowe [R, ME] was considered the only Republican whose vote was anywhere near attainable for the Democrats on health care. But according to the Politico, now that the public option is likely to be dropped from the bill, fellow Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ vote […] December 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Sen. Olympia Snowe, Sen. Susan Collins, Sen. Tom Carper | Category: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care, Maine, Taxes | Comments are closed
By CARL HULSE The New York Times November 22, 2009 WASHINGTON — Anxious about how little maneuvering room the weekend victory by Senate Democrats on health care provided, Obama administration officials and their Congressional allies are stepping up overtures to select Senate Republicans in hopes of winning their ultimate support. The two moderate Republican senators […] November 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Sen. Olympia Snowe, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: Health Care, Maine | Comments are closed
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