Olympia J. Snowe

Olympia J. Snowe (b. 1947) is a Republican United States Senator from Maine. She is a liberal on many current issues and calls herself a moderate. She supports abortion, gay rights and amnesty for Illegal Aliens. In fiscal matters and on defense, Snowe is generally conservative. She is a supporter of the war in Iraq and voted for the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA) of 2002, although she disagreed with the size of the tax cuts. Snowe began her career in national politics in 1978 when she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Since then she has never lost an election. In 2006, she was named one of "America's Top Ten Senators" by Time Magazine. She has high approval ratings in here home state of Maine and is the wife of former Governor John R. McKernan, Jr.