Senator Susan Collins

Republican  •  Maine  •  3rd Term  •  Sworn In 1997
Current Term 2009 - 2014 View All
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11/09/09
RE: Susan Collins

LIEBERMAN: I intend, working with my Republican ranking member Susan Collins, to begin an investigation. I think the first steps that should be taken in ...

Source: FOXNews
11/08/09
Poll finds Mainers feeling bit more secure about jobs

70 percent approved of Sen. Olympia Snowe's job performance, down 1 percent from the spring. Sen. Susan Collins had a job approval rating of 68 percent, ...

Source: Bangor Daily News
11/08/09
RE: Susan Collins

... Affairs Committee, said he will work with the panel's ranking Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, to investigate the shooter's motives. ...

Source: Washington Times
11/08/09
Unemployment insurance extension to aid Mainers

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, also supported the extension arguing unemployment insurance is a safety net for workers who have lost their jobs in the ...

Source: Bangor Daily News
11/08/09
Transcript: Sen. Lieberman on 'FNS'

LIEBERMAN: I intend, working with my Republican ranking member Susan Collins, to begin an investigation. I think the first steps that should be taken in ...

Source: FOXNews
11/08/09
Home tax credit extension praised; credit also no longer restricted to first ...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she would not have supported it when it passed the Senate 98-0 this week had the cost not been largely paid for by ...

Source: Laconia Citizen
11/07/09
Tea Party Patriots hold rally in Augusta

Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins) a pink slip, so to speak, if they continue to vote against the Constitution," Amy Hale, rally organizer and founder of the ...

Source: Morning Sentinel
11/06/09
Bill to increase oversight of IT projects gets big boost from report

...more information about these projects so we can decide whether we want to continue funding them or not." Carper and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, released a statement calling the overruns unacceptable and indicative of the larger state of IT management i

Source: NextGov
11/06/09
House lawmakers seek to remove FEMA from Homeland Security

...in 2006." Lieberman said FEMA now has a renewed sense of mission, greater stature and more resources. Ranking member Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said removing FEMA from Homeland Security "would ignore the input of first-responders and unravel all the i

Source: GovExec.com
11/06/09
Preserving our wild side

...what Americans want. "This is a tough time. But I doubt Americans will begrudge spending on national parks." Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Bob Bennett of Utah, warmly embraced the t

11/05/09
Steele to target moderates?

Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins) or who might support health-care reform (like Snowe): Crist, of course, is competing in a Senate primary against the ...

Source: msnbc.com
11/05/09
8 GOP senators back Fiorina's Senate bid

... cover a range of backgrounds within the Republican Party—from conservative Tom Coburn to moderates such as Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. ...

Source: San Jose Mercury News
11/05/09
EPW Panel Dems Look to Move Climate Bill Today; GOP Moderates Want More Study

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (DR.I.) left the strategy meeting saying the committee rules would allow the Democrats to approve the climate legislation without ...

Source: New York Times
11/05/09
Key Moderates Influence The Shape Of Health Overhaul Bills

...softens Reid's bill." Some Democrats believe using Snowe's idea could win the vote of the other Republican senator from the Maine, Susan Collins, and maybe up to two more Republican votes (Drucker and Pierce, 11/4). In a second story, Roll Call reports

11/05/09
Collins Takes Another Swing at ‘Czars’

...Susan Collins (R-Maine) is keeping her focus on the important issues: an amendment that would increase congressional control of “czars.” Her amendment, which she first tried to attach to an appropriations bill without success, would also require the

11/05/09
RE: Susan Collins

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (DR.I.) left the strategy meeting saying the committee rules would allow the Democrats to approve the climate legislation without ...

Source: New York Times
11/04/09
U.S. Cyber Center Opens To Battle Computer Attacks

...private sector to insure that transportation systems, energy plants and other sensitive networks are equally protected. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican on the homeland security panel, said it will take more than a White House coordin

Source: Top Tech News
11/04/09
Renewed faith in the younger generation

...visiting dignitaries from other educational institutions. The keynote speaker for the actual ceremony was Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who is also an alumna of St. Lawrence University and was a classmate of Dr. Fox. This background gives me a chance to bra

11/03/09
Put cybersecurity chief in DHS not the White House, Senator says

Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, raised the issue most recently. ...

Source: Computerworld
11/03/09
Purdue study: H1N1 pandemic has probably peaked

The entire issue has several US Senators, specifically, Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), wanting answers. ...

Source: Lakeland Times
11/03/09
One Man's Judas, Another Man's Purged Moderate

...teapartiers, hyperventilated that the Senator from Connecticut supported—get this—the moderate Maine Republican Susan Collins! Bipartisanship (or is it post-partisanship?) is when the other guys come to our side, not the other way around. And on

Source: Reason
11/03/09
'Bangor Daily News' Executive Editor to Retire

...He became editorial page editor in 1982 and left the paper for eight months in 1997 to be communications director for Sen. Susan Collins in Washington. In the fall of that year he was named the paper's executive editor. Woodward's retirement will become

11/03/09
RE: Susan Collins

Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, raised the issue most recently. ...

Source: Computerworld
11/02/09
Financial Regs Should Preserve States' Authority, Collins Says

Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree are seeking to influence legislation Congress is crafting that would crack down on the financial ...

Source: MPBN News
11/02/09
Pressure Grows To Name National Cybersecurity Coordinator

...in place. Last week, Sen. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., joined the fray, announcing that he would introduce a bill with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, that would make the cybersecurity coordinator a Senate-confirmed official. Lieberman said in a press release

11/02/09
Collins opposes White House cyber czar

...Susan Collins (R-Maine), the top-ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today argued against establishing a new cybersecurity coordinator position at the White House. Rather than have a new White House “cyber c

11/02/09
Restlessness grows absent cyber czar pick

...the adviser, which some have called a cybersecurity "czar," puts him at odds with the top Republican on his committee, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. But he said he is in talks with Collins over the legislation and hopes to get her support for a bill they

Source: NextGov
10/31/09
There are many good reasons to vote for Dede Scozzafava

...the House Armed Services Committee if elected. She has the support of the House minority leader on this appointment. Sen. Susan Collins, who is the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also supports her. Doug Hoffman has the support of

10/31/09
Center opens to battle computer attacks

...the private sector to insure that transportation systems, energy plants and other sensitive networks are equally protected. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican on the homeland security panel, said it will take more than a White House coo

10/30/09
RE: Susan Collins

Lieberman's preference for a White House official puts him at odds with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the ranking Republican on the Senate homeland security ...

Source: Washington Post

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