Nightly News   |  February 28, 2012

Olympia Snowe to leave U.S. Senate

The long-serving Republican senator from Maine announced she will not run for re-election. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> one of the most prominent women in the united states senate is leaving. olympia snowe of maine, ranked the most moderate republican in the senate says the partisanship? washington has become too much. she will not run reelection. this ends over three decades of congressional service for snowe. it is a big blow to the