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Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress Hardcover – May 14, 2013

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An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 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 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. 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 will propose 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 Augusta, 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 an auto accident. Already dedicated to public service, she ran for and won her husband’s seat.

The book will include anecdotes from throughout her career, and address her working relationships with Presidents Reagan through Obama, Senator Ted Kennedy, Majority Leader Bob Dole, and many others. As a senior member of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, the high-profile Commerce and Intelligence Committees, and the Senate Small Business Committee, Senator Snowe has been directly involved with the most talked-about legislative challenges of recent decades: the country’s response to 9/11; the 2008 financial crisis; the Affordable Healthcare Act; the debt ceiling debacle, and much more.

Her new book will draw 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.

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Known for working across party lines in her 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Republican Snowe, from Maine, felt driven from the legislative body by acrimonious partisanship and declined to run for reelection in 2012. But she hasn’t abandoned politics. In this heartfelt call to action, she details the cost to the American public of a Congress so polarized that it passes record low numbers of laws and can’t agree on a budget. Snowe offers an insider’s view of how Congress came to be so dysfunctional, including a behind-the-scenes look at her role in working with both sides to get President Obama’s health-care bill passed. She recounts her personal history of losing both parents when a child, widowhood at 26 that led to taking her husband’s state legislative seat, later marriage to John McKernan, who would be elected governor of Maine as she pursued politics into the Senate. Snowe offers a passionate plea to Americans to insist on changes in the Senate, including filibuster reform, biennial budgeting, and a five-day workweek for Congress. --Vanessa Bush

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Born on February 21, 1947, in Augusta, Maine, Olympia Snowe earned a degree in political science from the University of Maine in 1969. Senator Snowe is only the fourth woman in history to be elected to both houses of Congress and the first woman in American history to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress. When first elected to Congress in 1978, at the age of 31, Olympia Snowe was the youngest Republican woman, and the first Greek-American woman, ever elected to Congress. She has won more federal elections in Maine than any other person since World War II, and is now the third-longest serving female in the history of Congress. Snowe is married to former Maine governor John R. McKernan, Jr. and lives in Falmouth, Maine.

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Publisher : Weinstein Books; 0 edition (May 14, 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 328 pages
ISBN-10 : 1602862176
ISBN-13 : 978-1602862173
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #965,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #472 in Women in Politics (Books)
- #568 in Political Leadership
- #664 in U.S.Congresses, Senates & Legislative

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Christina Bammes MD

Compromise needs to resurrect itself

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019

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In a time of hurtful rhetoric, tribalism and stalemate in Washington, hope has been rekindled in me that governance could again happen in Washington if people in congress and the administration could take a step back and realize that politics does not have to be a zero sum game. Lasting progress is more likely to happen if listening and compromise occur. Also, civility is essential.

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Randolph A McCord

a GOOD republican

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2019

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I wish we had more thoughtful and productive republicans like her! She disappeared from the scene after this book when I expected her to work for reform after retirement.

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Mark Schumaker

Thoughtful and Engaging

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2013

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Olympia Snowe of Maine spent over 30 years in Congress, first in the House of Representatives and then the Senate. In this well-written book she describe how the process of making law has degenerated from a deliberative process that engaged members of both parties to a now less democratic process in which the leadership of the majority party in each chamber writes proposals for legislation. They then choose when and how to present the bills and often restrict amendments. Both Democratics and Republicans are to blame for this mess. Congress effectively works a 3 day week, which is understandable considering that their members may be asked to spend up to 30 hours a week doing political fund raising! Ms. Snowe also describes her childhood and how she entered politics and this is surprisingly interesting.

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Susan Jetton

Kudos to Senator Snowe

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2013

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Olympia Snowe has always been a hero of mine, despite our differing political persuasion -- or maybe because of it. I appreciate greatly that she has chosen to take this route after her career as a legislator -- suggesting how we can fix what we all know to be broke. Bottom line: we the voters have it in our hands to make the difference, if only we would.

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M. Bell

A Very Insightful and Compelling Read

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013

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I thought that this might be a stuffy political look behind the scenes. However, this is a well written and thoughtful look at a career that ended because of the current partisan atmosphere in Washington. Olympia Snowe is putting it all out there for those to read. It is an interesting look at a political problem that is STOPPING America from being an even greater nation.

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Judy B. Rosener

interesting

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014

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Very good insights about how Congress does and doesn't work. Good suggestions for change by someone who has been there.

One criticism.....too many I's. Makes it look like she was a majority player although she clearly was a player.

I am recommending to the many well educated people I know who are ignorant about how Congress does and doesn't work.

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Susan G.

I haven't finished the book yet.

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013

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I have always been a strong supporter of Olympia Snowe but am somewhat disappointed with the book. It appears to have been written in a hurry, and I finally had to check her biography on line to get the chronology straightened out. At this point in the book her writing seems rather prosaic.

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Read this book if you want to learn the truth

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2013

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My mother loved this book. She is 94 and worked in Washington, DC for a State Representative in the 1950s. She read this book in a few days, couldn't put it down. She says it is an accurate and honest revelation of what it's like "on the hill" then and now.

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