Senator Susan Collins

Republican  •  Maine  •  3rd Term  •  Sworn In 1997
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11/27/09
Health care ads bring TV windfall

...Louisiana: 1,600 spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,

11/27/09
Health care ads bring TV windfall

...Louisiana: 1,600 spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,

11/27/09
Health care ads bring TV windfall

...Louisiana: 1,600 spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,

11/27/09
Blitz of health care ads a windfall for TV

...Democrat up for re-election next year, saw 1,900 spots at a cost of $1 million. • Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,0

Source: USA Today
11/27/09
Blitz of health care ads a windfall for TV

WASHINGTON The congressional debate over health care has produced an unexpected recession windfall: a television advertising boom in the home states of pivotal lawmakers. The multimillion-dollar effort to win votes could determine the fate of

Source: USA Today
11/27/09
Blitz of health care ads a windfall for TV

...Democrat up for re-election next year, saw 1,900 spots at a cost of $1 million. • Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,0

Source: USA Today
11/27/09
Blitz of health care ads a windfall for TV

...spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. •Maine:The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000....

Source: ABC News
11/26/09
110-acre coastal parcel in southern Maine to be preserved

Olympia Snow and Susan Collins, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, one of the last large, undeveloped waterfront properties in southern Maine will become ...

Source: York County Coast Star
11/26/09
Sen. Susan Collins: The shootings at Fort Hood - A preliminary assessment

In investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the 9/11 Commission discovered vital information scattered throughout the ...

Source: Foster's Daily Democrat
11/26/09
Bridge was decades in the making

"It goes beyond Calais and St. Stephen," said US Senator Susan Collins told news reporters following the official speeches. "Many people don't realize that ...

Source: Telegraph-Journal
11/25/09
Maine delegation talks turkey

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is headed for her brother Gregg's house in Caribou, where her parents, brothers and sisters, and “many nieces and nephews” will ...

Source: Bangor Daily News
11/25/09
BC-HEALTHCARE-NOTEBOOK-NYT

(EDS: A tag byline follows each item.) In a telephone news conference aimed at pressuring swing-vote senators, leaders of the National Farmers Union on Tuesday underscored the importance of health care legislation to agricultural workers in Arkansas,

11/25/09
Senate Personalities Shape, Debate Health Reform Bill

...And when it comes time for the final consideration of the bill, two other women may cast similarly crucial votes: Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Republicans who are expected to be courted heavily by Democrats and the White House." An

11/25/09
RE: Susan Collins

Mary Landrieu, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. This new bipartisan gang of four could be key to removing the ...

Source: U.S. News & World Report
11/25/09
Healthcare Reform's Fate Lies in the Hands of Four Women

...with these four women: Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. This new bipartisan gang of four could be key to removing the heavily

11/25/09
RE: Susan Collins

Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) -- will be "calling the shots" in the chamber's health ...

Source: Medical News Today (press release)
11/25/09
REPORT: At Least 40 GOP Lawmakers Fail The 'Purity Test'

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the stimulus) was passed with support from Republican Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). ...

Source: Think Progress
11/25/09
RE: Susan Collins

Mary Landrieu, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. This new bipartisan gang of four could be key to removing the ...

Source: U.S. News & World Report
11/24/09
RE: Susan Collins

Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and then-Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.). “That was arguably the most significant legislative accomplishment of ...

Source: The Hill
11/24/09
RE: Susan Collins

... Lincoln and Landrieu, but also two moderate Republicans — Snowe and her Maine colleague, Sen. Susan Collins — to get an overhaul bill passed. ...

Source: NPR
11/24/09
Collins to kids: 'Be whatever you want to be'

“I'm so happy to be with you today,” US Sen. Susan Collins told the fourth-graders before showing them a presentation on a day in the life of a senator. ...

Source: Bangor Daily News
11/24/09
No Amnesty for Obamacare -- By: Robert Costa

...In fact, it’s the same group that’s tormenting him now: Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a moderate Republican. All three voted to start debate on immigration reform, then voted against endin

11/24/09
Senate personalities shape, debate health reform bill

...And when it comes time for the final consideration of the bill, two other women may cast similarly crucial votes: Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Republicans who are expected to be courted heavily by Democrats and the White House." An

11/24/09
Groups Aim to Avert Abortion Curbs

...are considered strongly antiabortion: Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Two Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, favor abortion rights. Many abortion-rights lawmakers say they wouldn't support the final version of t

11/24/09
RE: Susan Collins

Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and then-Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.). “That was arguably the most significant legislative accomplishment of ...

Source: The Hill
11/24/09
Shaheen's support: Does the health bill have it?

And someone please tell me why Olympia Snow and Susan Collins are still allowed in the Republican Party with such a dismal record on supporting conservative ...

Source: The Union Leader
11/24/09
GOP Resolution Would Expel Moderate Republicans

... the Republican Party, expel most Republicans in New England's congressional delegation (including senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine), ...

Source: About - News & Issues (blog)
11/24/09
Bowdoin in the News: November in Review

Olympia Snowe's support, Sen. Susan Collins would "grit her teeth and go along as well." Read the text of the segment. Maine was in the national spotlight ...

Source: Bowdoin News
11/24/09
Republicans craving orthodoxy should demand a Tribunal of Inquisition

Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins – gone. Snowe once talked to a Democrat, and Collins must have done something too. In fact, all Maine Republicans should ...

Source: Dscriber
11/24/09
'Special Report' Panel on Health Care and 9/11 Terrorist Trials in NYC

I think you saw the emergence today in a New York Times piece by Susan Collins who had been opposed to this kind of reform, all of a sudden out of the blue ...

Source: FOXNews

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