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- News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | about 1 month agoOlympia Snowe in charge Let's hope she and the president stick to core principles while shaping the final health-care reform bill Thursday, October 15, 2009 Now, two people will have to choose. The fate of the health care bill is largely in the...
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- News Source: The Boston Globe | about 1 month agoSen. Ben Nelson praised Maine GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe's vote to advance a health care reform bill out of the Senate Finance Committee -- but the Nebraska Democrat isn't coming out in favor of the bill. Snowe's vote Tuesday is "a sign of some...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | about 1 month agoDuring a Wednesday conference call with reporters, Nelson praised Snowe's vote a day earlier as "a sign of some bipartisanship that I hope will be expanded as health care moves onto the Senate floor." Like Snowe, Nelson is a moderate considered to be...
- News Source: Politico | about 1 month agoWhen Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe took her seat on the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday morning, she had only an inkling of how she’d vote on health care reform. She wanted the budget experts to weigh in before making up her mind. She was in a...
- Blog Source: positivereform.comFor now, however, Snowe's vote lends the imprimatur of bipartisanship to the Finance measure, making it easier for Senate leaders to rally support among Democratic moderates who have been reluctant to back a health-care bill without .... Ben Nelson (
- Blog Source: hotair.comVideo: Obama praises Snowe's extraordinary self-regard diligence. ... Nelson is from Nebraska and he voted yes. Can't remember her name but the LA Dem, she voted yes. There is no blue dog, it's a myth. angryed on October 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM . 2010
- Blog Source: swampland.blogs.time.comOlympia Snowe didn't make a liar out of Max Baucus, who had been predicting for months that he would have at least some GOP support when passing his health care reform bill out of the Finance Committee (all along most of us read this as ... For
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- Blog Source: remmersreport.blogspot.com“The mark before us produces some bipartisan landmark reforms,” Snowe said. “It bolsters what works in the system and engenders quality and competition.” Snowe praised provisions in the bill that would help small businesses, ... Ben Nelson (D-
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comIf Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are looking at it, you can be sure they are looking to see if there is a way to game it so that their medical industry overlords can squeeze another pound of flesh out of us with it. ...
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- Video Source: www.truveo.comObama Praises Snowe, Baucus ...Video Source: www.truveo.comObama Praises Snowe, Baucus For Health Bill Vote
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