Just days after announcing her retirement due to the partisanship of the Senate, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe helped kill a conservative measure which would have restricted the availability of contraception. Her Maine colleague, referred to as Snowe’s moderate “sister,” voted to support the bill, however. Snowe became the lone Republican Thursday to vote against Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)’s amendment, which would have exempted nearly all employers from President Obama’s new rule mandating coverage of birth control for women. The...
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