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Snowe looks back on career in farewell speech as senator

Lauds allies while skirting talk of divided Congress

By Glenn Adams

 |  Associated Press  

  May 07, 2012

Maine’s retiring US Senator Olympia Snowe made only a passing reference to her frustration with polarization of Congress, which is driving her from office, during a farewell speech Sunday to a sharply divided Republican state convention. Snowe, who has represented Maine in the US House and Senate for more than three decades, also thanked Maine Republicans for their support over the years. Her husband, former Maine governor and congressman John “Jock’’ McKernan, sat near her as Snowe spoke.

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