Snowe Voting Yes On Senate Finance Health Care Reform Bill

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Tuesday that she intends to vote for the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform package. She cautioned that her vote should be seen as a sign of her faith in the process going forward, not as support for the final package that will arrive on the Senate floor.
"Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it," said Snowe. "Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls, and I happen to think ... Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 13, 2009

Provides more depth about Senator Snowe's vote than most other coverage. Less evidence of the Huffington's liberal bias than usual in their coverage.

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Fabrice Florin
3.6
by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 14, 2009

Informative story about Republican Senator Olympia Snowe's decision to vote in favor of the health care reform bill on the Senate Finance committee. This breaking news report is factual and provides useful context about the important implications of this vote. I would have liked to hear more perspectives from the right, as well as from independent sources, which I expect will become available in future updates.

I read about this on Huffington Post first. Thanks, HuffPo!

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Sirajul Islam
4.0
by Sirajul Islam - Oct. 13, 2009

The report focuses much on the Rep Sen OJ Snowe, which focuses backdoor parley for the bill to pass. I like it. The report is clearly indicative.

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Kristin Gorski
3.4
by Kristin Gorski - Oct. 14, 2009

Features a lot of direct quotations from the Senate vote which show how historic many think this legislation will be. Interesting narrative but not much context or statistics to frame it.

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Jim Lang
2.8
by Jim Lang - Oct. 14, 2009

This is essentially a story on what Senator Snow thhinks. It is fair and relevant to Maine voters; however it has limited relevance to the future of health care legislation.

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Kaizar Campwala
3.4
by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 13, 2009

Doesn't present the GOP reaction at all.

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