Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]

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2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

(EDS: A tag byline follows each item.) In a telephone news conference aimed at pressuring swing-vote senators, leaders of the National Farmers Union on Tuesday underscored the importance of health care legislation to agricultural workers in Arkansas,

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Senate Personalities Shape, Debate Health Reform Bill

2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

...And when it comes time for the final consideration of the bill, two other women may cast similarly crucial votes: Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Republicans who are expected to be courted heavily by Democrats and the White House." An

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No Amnesty for Obamacare -- By: Robert Costa

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

...In fact, it’s the same group that’s tormenting him now: Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a moderate Republican. All three voted to start debate on immigration reform, then voted against endin

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard gears up to work on first Virginia class sub

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

H., Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Susan Collins. R-Maine. "The USS Virginia is the most modern and innovative underwater warship on patrol today. ...

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Senate personalities shape, debate health reform bill

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

Collins to kids: 'Be whatever you want to be'

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

“I'm so happy to be with you today,” US Sen. Susan Collins told the fourth-graders before showing them a presentation on a day in the life of a senator. ...

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2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

... Lincoln and Landrieu, but also two moderate Republicans — Snowe and her Maine colleague, Sen. Susan Collins — to get an overhaul bill passed. ...

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2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and then-Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.). “That was arguably the most significant legislative accomplishment of ...

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GOP Resolution Would Expel Moderate Republicans

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

... the Republican Party, expel most Republicans in New England's congressional delegation (including senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine), ...

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Possible Casualties Of The GOP Purity Test

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

It could also preclude RNC funding for the GOP's two most moderate senators--Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, neither of whom are up for reelection ...

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Bowdoin in the News: November in Review

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

Olympia Snowe's support, Sen. Susan Collins would "grit her teeth and go along as well." Read the text of the segment. Maine was in the national spotlight ...

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'Special Report' Panel on Health Care and 9/11 Terrorist Trials in NYC

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

I think you saw the emergence today in a New York Times piece by Susan Collins who had been opposed to this kind of reform, all of a sudden out of the blue ...

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Republicans craving orthodoxy should demand a Tribunal of Inquisition

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins – gone. Snowe once talked to a Democrat, and Collins must have done something too. In fact, all Maine Republicans should ...

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Groups Aim to Avert Abortion Curbs

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

...are considered strongly antiabortion: Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Two Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, favor abortion rights. Many abortion-rights lawmakers say they wouldn't support the final version of t

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Crunch Time For Health Overhaul Looms In Senate

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

...senators from Maine to join the Democrats. It's a tough sell, but about the only game left. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted with the Republican bloc, but at least "they stayed aloof from the assaults on the measure by other Republicans,"

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Public option at center of debate

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

...and at the moment the number of potential converts adds up to no more than two. Maine moderates Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins are probably the only GOP senators Reid has any hope of attracting to the 60-vote bloc necessary to head off a filibuster.

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Photo by Dan Bustard

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Applied Thermal Dynamics of Sanford and Arundel Machine also took part in the program, set through US Sen. Susan Collins' office.

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GOP Strikes Back On Senate Health Vote

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both Maine Republicans, have been encouraged to "bring forward their ideas and concerns" by Majority Leader Harry Reid, ...

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Michaud tells of talk with Obama on Medicare

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

The national organization awarded similar recognition earlier this year to Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins for their support of Obama's American Recovery and ...

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Why Sarah Palin drives lefties nuts.

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

We are tired of the Olympia Snows, Susan Collins, and John McCains. (At least Arlen Specter finally fessed up and crossed over to the dark side! ...

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