Goodbye to Olympia Snowe, Maine independent

Maine’s Olympia Snowe is officially a Republican, but really she is an independent, perfectly in keeping with her state’s independent streak. In other words, Snowe is a centrist, committed to finding common sense, bipartisan solutions for our nation’s many serious challenges, which makes her one of a vanishing breed in Congress.
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The Ryan I Know: A Mild-Mannered Wonk and Ideological True Believer

I first met Paul Ryan in 1995 when he was working for freshman Rep. Sam Brownback, a member of the House class of 1994. Like most of that class and their staffs, Ryan was a true believer — a reference not to his faith but to the class’s single minded conviction that reducing federal spending and cutting the deficit was their mission. It’s a view Ryan still holds.
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