FIGHTING FOR COMMON GROUND by Olympia Snowe

Olympia Snowe spoke about her book, Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress, at Politics & Prose on Monday, May 20, 2013.

A veteran of some forty years in public office, at both the state and federal levels, Senator Snowe built a reputation as a moderate always ready to work for bipartisan compromise. But with Congress increasingly mired in deadlock and polarization, Snowe, writing out of both frustration with the stalemate and a belief that the system can work, has issued this call for a citizens movement to hold elected officials accountable.