Senator Snowe voted for closure along with all other Republicans and a few key Democrats.
We have the support of Senator Collins and Senator Snowe from Maine.
But there is no doubt, as Senator Snowe said yesterday, that the level of sort of partisan polarization continues to be regrettably high.
Senator Snowe introduced a bill a couple of weeks ago that would require the commander of forces in Iraq to report in four months that six benchmarks - and spelled out by President Bush, in fact - in January have been achieved.
Kerry is partnering on his initiatives with Republican senator Olympia Snowe.
For instance, Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine says she has introduced a bill that she says represents a consensus.
Senator OLYMPIA SNOWE (Republican, Maine): I'm delighted to be on the program.
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me.), an important moderate who is courted by Democrats for key votes, was particularly interested in reducing the S-corp self-employment tax impact on small-business job creators.
Senator OLYMPIA SNOWE (Republican, Maine): Thank you, Robert.
Senator OLYMPIA SNOWE (Republican, Maine): It says within 120 days, which is essentially in tandem with the surge by September, within 120 days, if the Maliki government - the Council of Representatives - cannot accomplish the political benchmarks that are essential and pivotal to national reconciliation, then we begin a phased withdrawal.
By her last term, Snowe writes that a senator's willingness to reach across the aisle had become a "scarlet letter" instead of badge of honor.
Even Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator from Maine who recently declared herself so disgusted with the polarisation of Congress that she is not running for re-election this year, has been inching to the right since 2010.
"It can be an innovative approach, " said Snowe, considered perhaps the lone GOP senator who might support the health care bill.
Snowe's stance on health care is hardly the first time the moderate senator has broken ranks with her party.
One senator with a proposal that might conceivably bridge the gap between the White House and Democrats in Congress is Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican.
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