Snowe: Economic Uncertainty Has Huge Price Tag

Commenting on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s remarks in defense of the president’s jobs plan, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said businesses need certainty to create jobs. (0:18)

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Reid Says Senate Must Move On Public Option, Even Without Snowe's Support

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the public option, saddled with a provision that will allow states to individually opt-out, will be included in the final draft of the Senate’s health care reform legislation.

Although Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the only Republican on the Senate Finance Committee to vote in favor of moving the legislation out of committee, does not support a public option, Reid stated that the Senate has to move on. The Majority Leader added that he hopes that Snowe and other Republicans will support health care reform after being given the chance to submit their own amendments. (0:24)

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Sen. Snowe Votes For Finance Bill, Warns Vote May Not Be The Same On Senate Floor

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) stated Tuesday that she will vote to pass the America’s Healthy Future Act through the Senate Finance Committee. However, Snowe warned that although she would be supporting the bill Tuesday, that does not mean she will support the legislation that reaches the Senate floor.

“My vote today is my vote today, it doesn’t forecast what my vote would be tomorrow,” said Snowe. (0:07)
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Republicans For Cap-and-Trade

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, points out that separate Cap-and-Trade bills have previously been sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) Former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), who still support it, and that Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both (R-Maine), also support the measure.


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Sen. Snowe says oil prices matter of life and death

Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) says that oil is a basic commodity and that a response plan must be developed because without oil to heat their homes, people could freeze to death. (0:41)
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