Honorable Olympia Snowe
United States Senator, Maine, Republican
Senator Snowe was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. She served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1994. She serves on the following committees: Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Finance; Small Business and Entrepreneurship, where she is the Ranking Minority Member; and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the February 13, 2009, Senate floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. I rise on this occasion to speak on the economic stimulus conference…
