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100 1  Snowe, Olympia J.|q(Olympia Jean),|d1947- 
245 10 Fighting for common ground :|bhow we can fix the stalemate
       in Congress|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bBlackstone Publishing,|c2013. 
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511 1  Read by Pam Ward. 
520    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in
       2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term 
       and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the 
       dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in 
       the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for
       forty years, including eighteen years in the US Senate, 
       she explained that Washington wasn't solving the big 
       problems anymore. In this timely call to action, she 
       explores the roots of her belief in principled policy-
       making and bipartisan compromise. A leading moderate with 
       a reputation for crossing the aisle, Senator Snowe 
       proposes solutions for bridging the partisan divide in 
       Washington, most notably through a citizens' movement to 
       hold elected officials accountable. Senator Snowe recounts
       how the tragedies and triumphs of her personal story 
       helped shape her political approach. Born in Maine, 
       Senator Snowe was orphaned at nine and raised by an aunt 
       and uncle. When she was twenty-six, her husband, a Maine 
       state representative, was killed in a car accident. 
       Already dedicated to public service, she ran for and won 
       her husband's seat. Fighting for Common Ground includes 
       anecdotes from throughout Snowe's career and addresses her
       working relationships with Presidents Reagan through Obama,
       Senator Ted Kennedy, Majority Leader Bob Dole, and many 
       others, as well as her involvement with the most talked-
       about legislative challenges of recent decades: the 
       country's response to 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, the
       Affordable Care Act, the debt ceiling debacle, and much 
       more. Drawing on the lessons she's learned as a 
       policymaker and the frustration she shares with the 
       American people about the government's dwindling 
       productivity, Senator Snowe passionately argues that the 
       government has now lost its way, shows how this happened, 
       and proposes ways for the world's greatest deliberative 
       body to once again fulfill its mission. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 10 United States.|bCongress|xHistory. 
610 10 United States.|bCongress|xVoting|xHistory. 
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