Olympia Snowe News

It will be another week before senators begin floor debate on the Democrats' health care overhaul bill, but many in Washington are already predicting the demise of its current provision for a modest government-run insurance program.

Among the officials touring BNAS on Tuesday were, from left, Sjur Bratland of StatoilHydro, Gail Kelley, state director for Maine Sen.

Don't mean to give you more indigestion on a Saturday night, but thought you should see this from The Hill: Sen.

Sen. Olympia Snowe is by now a well-known US Senator and moderate. She has a long and distinguished career in politics, beginning in the Maine State House in 1974, the State Senate, then the US House of Representatives from 1979 - 1995, then being elected to the US Senate in 1995 where she has served since.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is hopeful he will have the votes needed to begin debate on health legislation even as fellow Democrats raise concerns over issues including abortion to a government-run insurance plan.

Looks like CBO is not going to deliver any cost analysis on a healthcare reform bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NE, is trying to bring to the floor this week.

This undated letter from former state party chairman George Strake Jr. was forwarded to me by a Perry loyalist.

Senator Olympia Snowe introduced a bill Nov. 16 to repeal the small business ARC loan program, a stimulus-package initiative she helped create.

Despite early pleas for bipartisanship, President Obama is forging ahead with his domestic agenda with a largely single-party strategy, unable to corral more than a handful of Republicans on a wide range of major legislation before Congress.

Sen. Olympia J. Snowe shakes hands with Jordan Kiester , 20 of St. Francis, ME while talking with her, her mother Kelly Kiester of St.

Is it possible to hear the sound of hands wringing? Or of souls agonizing? Or of ironies clanging? I think it is.

Republicans Monday gained new hope that they could influence health care deliberations - influence that's so far eluded them - as the debate moves to the Senate, where the rules and the politics can work to their advantage.

Sen. Olympia Snowe has been in the hot national spotlight of the national health care reform debate for the past several months, and some in her party say the Maine Republican is melting away from her conservative roots.

Sen. Snowe toured part of Maine Thursday, fielding questions about health care reform as dozens rallied in Augusta, urging lawmakers to vote in favor of legislation.

Congress will miss President Obama's deadline to enact health care reform by the end of the year, a key Democratic senator said Tuesday.

"It's not important to be perfect here, it's important to act, to move, to start the ball rolling," Clinton told reporters after speaking to Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill yesterday.

What does the Iraq war have to do with the health care debate? More than you might think.

Behind the bill, literally but certainly not figuratively, Rep. Frank LoBiondo displays the House healthcare reform legislation.

With the next election day sitting 358 days away, there will be nights where the amount of polling news will be far exceeded by the amount of political news.

Health care reform is slated to take center stage in the Senate on Tuesday as Democrats summon a party elder with unique insight on the issue -- former President Bill Clinton.