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