Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins support the president’s proposal to extend the middle-income tax cuts “that everybody agrees on” this year.
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Son’s woes weigh heavily on the Rev. Jesse Jackson
“My heart burns,” he told the AP. “As I always say to my children, champions have to play with pain. You can’t just walk off the field because you’re hurt.”
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Maine Sen. Snowe renews call for bipartisanship
Sen. Olympia Snowe continued to stress the need for compromise Thursday in her final hearing as ranking member of the Senate Committee on Small Business.
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Snowe’s political donations, calls for unity at odds
She backed Maine Republicans who were far from centrists, but says her campaign support was tied to their loyalty, not ideology.
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Rep. Jessie Jackson Jr. resigns, citing mental health
Jackson says he’ll still cooperate with a House ethics investigation into his dealings with imprisoned ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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Maine Republican chairman: King a ‘lifelong liberal Democrat’
Charlie Webster says Sen.-elect Angus King’s decision to caucus with Democrats was a foregone conclusion, even before Republicans spent millions attacking him.
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Republicans aren’t reaching out to Maine’s King
Days after winning the race to succeed Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, independent Angus King of Maine isn’t being shown a lot of love from the GOP.
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Senator-elect King hurries to assemble his team
Scheduled to be sworn in Jan. 3, independent Angus King can pull talent from both sides of the aisle.
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2nd District: Election’s over and Michaud’s back on the job
Hours after U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud declared victory Tuesday, the Democratic incumbent was back to work in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.
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Little bang for the bucks of Republican donors
If election investments are like the stock market, a lot of billionaires just lost their shirts.