WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to hit the restart button on the health care debate, Senator Olympia J. Snowedoes not relish the prospect of becoming a Group of One.
“I certainly hope not,” exclaimed Ms. Snowe, about the possibility that she could end up as the sole Republican willing to join Senate Democrats in moving ahead on a broad change in health care.
Ms. Snowe and two Republican colleagues, Senator Charles E. Grassleyof Iowa and Michael B. Enziof Wyoming, have been privately negotiating a health care plan with three Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee in what has become known as the Group of Six.
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