Senator Susan Collins

Republican  •  Maine  •  3rd Term  •  Sworn In 1997
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10/23/09
Pressed, Sen. Reid says health bill may have public option

...public option out of the bill. I want to rely on a reformed private marketplace." Another member of the centrist group, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said: "There are a lot of senators from both sides of the aisle who have a sense of unease about all th

10/23/09
RE: Susan Collins

They were Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, as well as George Voinovich of Ohio, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. The president will sign the Act into ...

Source: The Colorado Independent
10/23/09
RE: Susan Collins

Susan Collins and Snowe, as well as Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and Bob Corker of Tennessee. Corker showed no signs of budging Friday, saying he's wary ...

Source: FOXNews
10/23/09
'Universal Nightmare 2.0' Special: The Maine Lesson

SEN. SUSAN COLLINS, R-MAINE: I opposed the public option for philosophical reasons. I don't think that the government should be competing with the private ...

Source: FOXNews
10/23/09
RE: Susan Collins

They were Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, as well as George Voinovich of Ohio, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. The president will sign the Act into ...

Source: The Colorado Independent
10/23/09
Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Obama at MIT

Cpt Robespierre evaluated one of Maine's Senators in Sen. Collins: Please Support the Climate Bill: "Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has a big opportunity to ...

Source: Daily Kos (blog)
10/22/09
Klobuchar introduces bipartisan resolution against domestic violence

The resolution is co-sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy, Herb Kohl, Russ Feingold, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mike Crapo, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, ...

Source: Pine Journal
10/22/09
RE: Susan Collins

How did your Senator vote? Portland has a pretty good little farmers market on Wednesday mornings not too far from my apartment but I wasn't able to get ...

Source: Mother Nature Network
10/22/09
RE: Susan Collins

Lieberman, an independent legislator from Connecticut, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said at a hearing in Washington that they weren't sure ...

Source: Chicago Sun-Times
10/22/09
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine could be critical crossover vote on health care

...junior senator from Maine is taking her star turn as the fence-sitting Republican in President Obama's sights. Wherever Sen. Susan Collins goes these days, people crowd around, trying to divine which way she is leaning. "How does it feel to have everybo

10/22/09
Republicans Press Sebelius on Slow Production of Swine Flu Vaccine

...Susan Collins (R-Maine), vice chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said at a Wednesday hearing with some of President Barack Obama's cabinet that she worried that the delays in getting H1N1 flu vaccines to America

Source: CNSNews.com
10/22/09
Need a shot? Get in line

...U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman told public health officials Wednesday. Lieberman, an independent legislator from Connecticut, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said at a hearing in Washington that they weren't sure the U.S. was ready to fight the dis

10/22/09
New focus on Maine's other centrist Republican senator

...subsided, and now the junior senator from Maine is the fence-sitting Republican in President Obama's sights. Wherever Sen. Susan Collins goes these days, people crowd around, trying to divine which way she is leaning. ......... Read more: http://www.was

10/22/09
Senate Moderates Could Pose Problems for Reid on Health Care

...or six moderates, including Sens. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.; Mary Landrieu, D-La.; Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.; and, at times, Susan Collins, R-Maine.  They do not all appear to hold the same view on health care reform. But several members of this group ha

Source: FOX News
10/22/09
Negotiators consider public option in Senate bill

...Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe, left, and Susan Collins are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009, file photo Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.,

10/22/09
Senate approves hate crimes bill

...the hate crime legislation over the years – in the Senate: the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Carl Levin (D-MI), author of the Defense Department bill, and former Senato

Source: JTA
10/22/09
AP sources: Negotiators weigh public health option

...Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe, left, and Susan Collins are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009, file photo Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.,

10/22/09
RE: Susan Collins

WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Thursday questioned the constitutionality of the so-called czars — senior policy advisers ...

Source: Bangor Daily News
10/22/09
RE: Susan Collins

Lieberman, an independent legislator from Connecticut, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said at a hearing in Washington that they weren't sure ...

Source: Chicago Sun-Times
10/22/09
RE: Susan Collins

She might also bring along more Republican backing, from fellow Maine Senator Susan Collins or Ohio Senator George Voinovich. With so many complex issues to ...

Source: Bloomberg
10/22/09
RE: Susan Collins

Lieberman, an independent legislator from Connecticut, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said at a hearing in Washington that they weren't sure ...

Source: Chicago Sun-Times
10/22/09
Collins Questions Federal Response to Flu Threat

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she's concerned that the federal response to the flu has been too slow. At a Senate hearing yesterday, Collins questioned ...

Source: MPBN News
10/22/09
Sen. Collins pushes for more oversight on czars

WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Thursday questioned the constitutionality of the so-called czars — senior policy advisers ...

Source: Bangor Daily News
10/22/09
Politics Today: Response to Furor over Wall St. Pay

"Wherever Sen. Susan Collins goes these days, people crowd around, trying to divine which way she is leaning." AFGHANISTAN: "US Defense Secretary Robert ...

Source: CBS News
10/22/09
Carrying On with Justice for All

Justice Sam Collins, 86 years old and also the uncle of Senator Susan Collins, said after the ceremony that "it was a great day." For the Collins family, ...

Source: The Free Press (press release)
10/21/09
Climate Bill: Stealth Gas Tax, Fence Sitters, and Questionable Science

The E&E analysis also “lists eight Republicans as “fence sitters” on the climate bill, with the two from Maine – Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe – holding ...

Source: Helicopter Association International
10/21/09
Snowe Falls, but More Obstacles Remain for Health Care Legislation

The health care reform debate is rapidly moving to some critical moments and critical choices in both the House and the Senate; the dynamics now raise fascinating questions about the process, the parties, the institutions and the norms inside Congress.

Source: Roll Call
10/21/09
RE: Susan Collins

As landmark health-care legislation moves to the Senate floor, attention in Washington has turned to Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a moderate Republican ...

Source: Washington Post
10/21/09
H1N1 Running Rampant Amid Shortage of Vaccine

H1N1 flu is running rampant throughout the U.S., and the country will have received only 25 percent of the vaccine that was expected by the end of October, Sen. Joe Lieberman told a Senate committee hearing Wednesday. The grim news was the focus of a

Source: FOX News
10/21/09
The view from Maine on the health-care debate

... the following comments about health-care reform from Maine residents as she wrote her article about the state's junior senator, Susan Collins (R). ...

Source: Washington Post

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Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2523
Fax: 202-224-2693

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