PORTLAND, Maine — Sen. Olympia Snowe’s primary challengers hope to ride conservative momentum driven by Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s strong showing in Maine’s caucuses. Libertarian tea party activist Andrew Ian Dodge and self-proclaimed conservative constitutio

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s congressional delegation wants Congress to act this year to reduce the federal budget deficit, but there is pessimism that it will occur in an increasingly partisan election year atmosphere. “Whether something can happen this yea

Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine first called President Obama’s revised birth-control bill a step in the right direction when it was announced Feb. 10. However, Collins and Snowe said last week they now want more information befo

PORTLAND — Sen. Olympia Snowe's primary challengers hope to ride conservative momentum driven by Texas Rep. Ron Paul's strong showing in Maine's caucuses. Senatorial hopeful Scott D'Amboise, speaks with an unidentified supporter during the Kennebec Count

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sen. Olympia Snowe's primary challengers hope to ride conservative momentum driven by Texas Rep. Ron Paul's strong showing in Maine's caucuses. Libertarian tea party activist Andrew Ian Dodge and self-proclaimed conservative consti

Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine first called President Obama's revised birth-control bill a step in the right direction when it was announced Feb. 10. But Collins and Snowe said last week that they now want more information befo

Some Republican women who support easy access to contraception have begun to complain. While other moderate Republican women, notably Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (who in the past have sponsored a bill requiring insurance companies to prov

Yesterday, billionaire Santorum supporter Foster Friess stole the political headlines when he told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell in his day, women didn't need contraception, "they used Bayer aspirin." According to Friess, women who kept aspirin between their k

Michaud, D-2nd District, backed the package approved by the House 293-132. But Pingree, D-1st District, was one of 41 Democrats to vote against it. Meanwhile, Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe both voted for the measure in the Senate, whic

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WASHINGTON - Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday officially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from getting slapped with a payroll tax hike, but it ran into turbulence in the Senate, where Republicans withheld suppor

I care about policy. I want my government to be both fair and representative of the people it governs. In recent years, I’ve become disgusted with the political system in Maine, and in the nation. Party gridlock puts us all at risk of bankruptcy and havi

WASHINGTON -- Since President Barack Obama moved to require Catholic hospitals and universities to offer their employees contraceptive health benefits, Republicans have rushed to accuse the administration of an unprecedented attack on religious freedoms.

U.S. Senate candidate George Allen is pushing ahead with a campaign that seems to be aimed solely at Democrat Tim Kaine. During a stop at the City Market Building in Roanoke today, Allen took a couple of shots at Kaine but didn’t mention any of his fello

On Monday, Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine seemingly surrendered to President Obama on the contraception mandate, before the fight had begun. “It appears that changes have been made that provide women’s health services without compellin

For much of 2011, when pundits claimed President Obama's re-election prospects were poor, one area in particular was frequently cited: Obama was struggling with independents, with whom he'd done quite well in 2008. If the president has lost the independe

Since her early days in the Senate, Snowe has championed a contraception mandate. In May 1997, she introduced the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act with Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. The bill would have required insurance co

"Imagine that a State were to enact a law that requires men to undergo an invasive rectal probing and prostate exam, for no medical reason, before obtaining a prescription for Viagra or undergoing a vasectomy. Such a law is unthinkable, because our publi

For those surprised about the recent fervor over Obama’s contraception coverage decision, a look at its deep roots. Republicans for Planned Parenthood last week issued a call for nominations for the 2012 Barry Goldwater award, an annual prize awarded to