Let's hope Maine's U.S. senators enjoy being in the heat of the action on health care reform. It will be a good warm-up for the next item on the congressional to-do list: climate change.
Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are at the top of the list of Republicans who are most likely to vote for a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, advocates say it's hard to imagine anything passing without them.
"Maine's senators are critical," said Rafe Pomerance, president of Clean Air-Cool Planet, a nonprofit group that is lobbying for the law.
The current debate over health care reform has shown what being in that position can mean for Maine and its swing-vote senators.
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