Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe to vote for Senate Finance health bill: ‘When history calls, history calls.’

While Republicans were hoping to have all members in its caucus oppose health care legislation, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) announced today that she will vote for the Finance Committee’s bill, making her the only Republican to do so. “When history calls, history calls,” she told her colleagues, noting that she still had some criticisms of the bill. She also touted the legislation’s “bipartisan, landmark reforms.”

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