Senator Susan Collins

Republican  •  Maine  •  3rd Term  •  Sworn In 1997
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11/20/09
The Common Ills: The fallen

Senator Susan Collins, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, blasted the 'information' provided -- as Mike noted earlier this week. Yesterday, Senator Joe Leiberman scheduled a hearing a refused to cancel it when the ...

11/19/09
State of the Division: Townsend to Testify Before Senate Homeland ...

Townsend heads up James A. Baker, III's consulting practice. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) had Fran's back as Committee Chair in 2006. Listen to the Senator's current position on major homeland security events like the Fort Hood massacre ...

11/19/09
Dinner under the tent for Manmohan Singh; Bill Clinton won't attend

Democrat senator Ben Nelson, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Republican Senator Susan Collins and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor were also not invited, the paper said. While the White House isn't confirming anyone on ...

11/19/09
Bill Clinton not coming to Manmohan Singh's party

Democrat senator Ben Nelson, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Republican Senator Susan Collins and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor were also not invited, the paper said. (Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in) ...

11/19/09
Two Reports From CIDRAP News

Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., the chairman, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Me., ranking Republican, argued that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should have called for an exclusive targeting of the most vulnerable groups as soon ...

11/19/09
A TIME'S MEMORY: USA. Lawmakers fault H1N1 vaccination strategy ...

Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., the chairman, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Me., ranking Republican, argued that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should have called for an exclusive targeting of the most vulnerable groups as soon ...

11/19/09
NRO

When a batch of senators endorsed Fiorina, they chuckled at the support from a murderer's row of some of conservatives' least favorite senators: Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and others that have irked

11/19/09
US officials defend swine flu vaccination plan - Public Health ...

“This hearing is critical to peeling away the layers of misinformation and miscommunication that has hampered the federal government's pandemic influenza strategy,” added Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins. ...

11/19/09
Kids, Road Rage, Gun Laws, Union Conservationists, and More | Bill ...

On Earth Day 2009, Congress started deliberating the No Child Left Inside Act of 2009, (S. 888/H.R. 2054) introduced by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD). ... And only five Republicans--Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe

11/19/09
Senate Democrats unveil bill with Public Option

Only two Republicans - the senators from Maine, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins - are considered possible recruits in favor of the bill. Other Republicans reacted strongly against the proposal last night. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell ... Senator

11/19/09
Kids, Road Rage, Gun Laws, Union Conservationists, and More | Bill ...

On Earth Day 2009, Congress started deliberating the No Child Left Inside Act of 2009, (S. 888/H.R. 2054) introduced by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD). ... A nd only five Republicans--Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe

11/19/09
Pentagon launches quick hunt for more Hasans, longer look at ...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, questioned whether the government failed to connect dots about Hasan. "We must better understand why law enforcement, intelligence agencies and our military personnel system may have failed in this case," ...

11/19/09
Lieberman slams public option; taunts critics

...on Face ... Ft. Hood hearing tomorrow — First Read 18 hours ago From NBC's Amna Nawaz Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed in a press conference today, that their Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee invest

Source: Beltway Blips
11/19/09
Lieberman pushes Ft. Hood inquiry

...of and defenses against the threat posed by violent Islamic extremism and homegrown terrorism." Both Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) met with FBI Director Robert Mueller and Army Secretary John McHugh to make sure that the Senate's investigat

Source: Rantburg
11/19/09
Lieberman launches Fort Hood hearings without any government ...

The party considered taking away his chairmanship after the 2008 elections, but declined to do so after intervention from Obama. Lieberman has received support for moving forward on the probe of Fort Hood from Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) ...

Source: Top News
11/19/09
Graniteprof: She's no Susan Collins

Over at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder reports on an interesting question he asked Kelly Ayotte, one which the US Senate candidate declined to answer: Are you a Jim DeMint Republican or a Susan Collins Republican?

Source: Graniteprof
11/19/09
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community

Sen. Susan Collins is taking the Obama administration to task over its handling of vaccine supplies for the H1N1 virus and seasonal flu. At a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the issue yesterday, ...

11/19/09
Tel-Chai Nation: Senate demands answers from Obama administration ...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is leading the investigation with Lieberman, said information-sharing is the most troubling issue that must be addressed. "There's a lot we don't know at this point. That's why we're doing the ...

11/19/09
Lieberman and Collins are Holding the Senate “Investigation” into ...

The leading congress people who pushed the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 , Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Joe Lieberman are currently holding senate hearings on the Fort Hood shootings. ...

11/18/09
ObamaCare Could Come Up this Week | Chicago Daily Observer

... Evan Bayh (IN), Mary Landrieu (LA), James Webb (VA); “Independent” Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman (CT); and GOP Senators Susan Collins & Olympia Snowe (ME), according to an alert from Eagle Forum's Washington office. ...

11/18/09
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Senator ...

A couple weeks ago, Louisiana's Senator David Vitter, the hooker loving Republican, wouldn't comment on the Justice of the Peace scandal to Mike Stark. Today, Vitter claimed he didn't even know the case -- or whether it was correctly ..... soc

11/18/09
Obama court nominee David Hamilton clears Senate hurdle ...

“Judge Hamilton is a pawn in partisan political warfare – that is the long and short of it,” said Sen. Arlen Specter (D) of Pennsylvania. Senator Specter noted that during the Bush years “this chamber was almost torn apart with the ferocity and ..

Source: Politics
11/18/09
Why Did GOP Senators Back Down on Filibuster? | The FOX Nation

Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) John Cornyn (R-TX) Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Richard Lugar (R-IN) John Thune (R-SD) Judd Gregg (R-NH) Olympia Snowe (R-ME) Susan Collins (R-ME) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 07:14 PM Report .... It's interestin

11/18/09
Ft. Hood hearing tomorrow - First Read - msnbc.com

Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed in a press conference today, that their Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee investigation into the shootings at Fort Hood will continue, beginning with a hearing ..... I HAVE NO RESP

Source: First Read
11/18/09
Capitol Watchblog » Archive » Bayh, Lugar deserve credit for Judge ...

Senator Evan Bayh took to the floor yesterday and offered a spirited defense of Judge Hamilton's bipartisan credentials, and even this partisan hack must extend some credit to Senator Richard Lugar, who bucked his party to give his own stamp of approv

11/18/09
Lieberman pushes Ft. Hood inquiry

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the Senate can't sit back for the Obama administration to investigate the shootings at Ft. Hood, so he’s pushing ahead with a Homeland Security Committee hearing to look into what went wrong before the massacre. There

Source: The Politico
11/18/09
Probe targeting possible gaps before Fort Hood massacre

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the panel's top Republican, said the bipartisan inquiry will examine whether there were “inexcusable gaps and communications failures” at Fort Hood or Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington “that ...

11/18/09
Congress Begins Probe Of Fort Hood Shooting | Barack Obama

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the top Republican in the panel, also said, “The shootings at Fort Hood appear to demonstrate that communication failures and poor judgment calls can defeat systems intended to ensure that vital information is ...

Source: MyTownTalks
11/18/09
Lieberman to Press On with Fort Hood Hearing « S E N A T U S

Sen. Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he feels compelled to probe the Nov. 5 shootings that killed 13 people at the Texas army base. Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the committee's ranking Republican, said they want answers to why ...

Source: SENATUS
11/18/09
Activist Judges Begin Short March into Judiciary - With RINO Help

...for conservative principles included some faithful RINOs but a few surprises: Lamar Alexander (TN), Saxby Chambliss (GA), Susan Collins (ME), John Cornyn (TX), Judd Gregg (NH), Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Lugar (IN), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Olympia Snowe (ME

Source: Moonbattery

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