 | Olympia Snowe |
Olympia Snowe, Republican, served as U.S. Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013. Previously, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives, and in both the Maine House and Senate. A widely respected centrist, she was one of only three Senate Republicans to vote for the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to reform the banking and financial services industry. She is the author of Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress (2013).
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About the series:
We’ve come a long way since President John F. Kennedy characterized politics as “a noble calling,” to today, when the nation’s political system is routinely described as “dysfunctional” and the political atmosphere in Washington and Augusta as “poisonous.”
