former US Senator (R-ME)
Former Republican Senator from Maine and author of Fighting for Common Ground: How to Fix the Stalemate in Congress
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Olympia Snowe
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Can Olympia Snowe 'Fight for Common Ground' outside Congress? Maine Republican Olympia Snowe served in elected office for 40 years, including three terms in the US Senate. Last year, she declined to run for re-election on the ground that extreme partisanship had rendered what used to be called "the world's greatest deliberative body" unable to perform its governing functions under the Constitution.
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