December 13, 2012 — After a nearly four decade career in public service, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine delivered her final speech on the floor of the Senate this afternoon.
Snowe, the third longest serving woman in the history of the United States Congress, discussed her remarkable life story, her rise from the corridors of the Maine Statehouse to the halls of Congress, and her impressive list of legislative accomplishments, always borne from her trademark consensus-building and bipartisan approach.