Congress uses gimmicks in the federal budget to fool the public.  Congress labels ordinary expenses as “emergency” spending, overstates project costs then shifts the excess elsewhere, increases federal salaries after promising pay freezes, and shifts expenditure dates in order to claim money savings or offsets. In a statement released October 2011, Sen. Olympia Snowe, (R-ME),…

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) opposed the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) rush to regulate the internet by voting in November to advance a resolution of disapproval (S.J.RES.6).  But Senate Democrats voted it down. Democrats blocked S.J.RES.6 on November 10.  Fifty-two Democrats voted “no,” and 46 Republicans voted “yes.”  Net neutrality activists raised cartoon fists in solidarity…

Remembered by some as the Republican who joined the Democrats with a vote for last year’s healthcare bill, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe helped write the bill, which emerged late in 2009 from the Senate Finance Committee.  (Although she voted for it in committee to advance it to the Senate floor, she actually voted against the…