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“Democrats can claim a smidge of bipartisan support and that’s because of one yes vote from one rebel Republican....When Olympia Snowe cast the lone Republican vote for the Senate Finance bill, she reaffirmed her place as a power player on Capitol Hill.”
This January, Snowe joined Democrats to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and was one of only two Republican senators to support President Obama’s stimulus package.
[The sad thing is she could have effectively killed it: if you recall the Specter brouhaha one of the unintended consequences was bills in committees need one minority vote to get out of committee.
That's the 'service' Snowe's 'power play' provided.]
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