Word: gop
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...Snowe isn't the only GOP Senator - or even the only one from Maine - who is getting room service from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After working around the clock for a week with 20 of her Senate colleagues on a compromise stimulus measure, Susan Collins had all but given up. But early on the evening of Feb. 6, Senate majority leader Harry Reid invited her to his office. "I debated whether it was worth going," Collins recalls. "I figured they were just going to put pressure on us to accept their previous offer," which didn't shrink...
...This is not the first time Collins and Snowe have broken ranks with their party. They have often found themselves at odds with the GOP leadership on taxes, budgets, the environment and social issues. They have both voted for stem-cell research, against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, for giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and against a ban on partial-birth abortion. They also both voted to acquit Bill Clinton after he was impeached...
...what makes Snowe and Collins more powerful now is that they, along with Specter, are nearly the last survivors of a once common species of moderate Northeastern Republican. As the GOP's center of gravity moves to the right, the Democratic majority has fewer and fewer potential crossovers to choose from. That gives each woman enormous leverage in a Senate Republican caucus whose leaders cannot afford any defections if they are to sustain a filibuster. Both sides know that the math on any close vote is likely to come down to Snowe and Collins...
...this Down East independence does not exactly thrill their colleagues on the GOP side of the Senate chamber. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham noted that Collins' negotiating skills helped turn an $819 billion House bill into an $838 billion version in the Senate. "I like them both," he told the New York Times, "but I wouldn't want them...
...least four GOP Representatives, for instance, Twittered in real time President Obama's meeting two weeks ago with their conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the stimulus plan, raising questions about the levels of privacy members can now expect from closed-door meetings. A sampling from Representative Michael Burgess, a Texas Republican...