Olympia Snowe

Maine's Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe, left, and Susan Collins walk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) Copyright 2009 AP News

Maine's Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe, left, and Susan Collins are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) Copyright 2009 AP News

HEALTH REFORM ADVANCES Congress took another step toward healing the health-care system on Oct. 13 when the all-important Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 in favor of a reform bill that would cost $829 billion over 10 years. After intense, months-long negotiations, the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The Obama administration likely erred in giving Congress summer deadlines to move on U.S. healthcare reform legislation, a top White House official said on Wednesday. "I might rethink that if we were to start over again," David Axelrod, ...

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 21: Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) speak before meeting privately at the Capitol October 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. Snowe was the only Republican on the Finance Committee to vote in favor of ...

Maine delegation asks for disaster declaration for shellfish industry Maine's congressional delegation is asking that a fisheries disaster be declared for the state's shellfish industry to help with losses from this summer's clam flat closures due to red tide. In a letter ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama lashed out on Saturday against the "deceptive and dishonest" efforts of health insurance companies, who he said are trying to kill healthcare reform, no matter the cost to the country. Sharpening his attack on insurers, ...

Fears about high costs of the health care overhaul and mistrust of insurers are rekindling interest in letting the government sell health insurance as part of the plan. The leading congressional proposal as of Wednesday — a Senate Finance bill that relies ...

Fears about high costs of the health care overhaul and mistrust of insurers are rekindling interest in letting the government sell health insurance as part of the plan. The leading congressional proposal as of Wednesday — a Senate Finance bill that relies ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Maine Senator Olympia Snowe became the most-watched lawmaker in the U.S. healthcare debate by following one of the oldest and most pragmatic of maxims -- that all politics is local. Snowe, 62, broke party ranks Tuesday, the sole Republican ...