WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate floor regarding today’s cloture vote on the Fiscal Year 2011...
More than eight million Americans have lost their jobs since the "Great Recession" began in 2008. Unemployment remains unacceptably high - increasing to 9.6 percent just...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, today announced that the Administration has agreed to her request to make permanent the pilot program...
Senator Susan Collins voted Tuesday in support of an amendment to repeal a provision of the recently enacted health care law that increases costs and creates onerous paperwork...
U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins today announced that the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent, nonpartisan federal agency, will investigate the...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for Bigelow Laboratory's new Center for Blue Biotechnology in East Boothbay.
"We are here to...
To me, the best part of Congress' annual August recess is the opportunity it gives me to travel throughout our beautiful state and to visit with our great people. A highlight of...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, today announced that the Department of Homeland Security has awarded $51,680 in grant funding...
The power of prudent, painstaking planning cannot be underestimated. For me, the most profound advice about the constant need for critical planning and preparation comes from the...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins recently visited Tom's of Maine's Sanford facility. Senator Collins toured the plant, met with many of the company's 150 employees, and learned...
"Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down." Those were the stirring words spoken by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990, as he took up his...
It is unacceptable that, in the last fiscal year, the federal government misspent a mountain of your tax dollars - an estimated $100 billion.
The payment blunders occurred in...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, along with her colleagues, Sens. Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Herb Kohl (D-WI), today introduced the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2010 that would...
U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins released the following statement today after voting to proceed to legislation to assist states struggling during these difficult...
In a statement read today during a groundbreaking ceremony in Brunswick, U.S. Senator Susan Collins applauded the expansion of Amtrak's Downeaster line from Portland to...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins today participated in the grand opening ceremony for TD Bank's new, 60,000 square-foot, "green" call center in Auburn. This call center is...
Nearly every American can picture the peaceful, rolling green hills, dotted with row upon row of bleached-white headstones. This iconic image of Arlington National Cemetery is...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on Thursday questioned former Arlington National Cemetery officials...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, today released the following statement regarding a GAO investigation into the ability of...
Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, urged federal officials at a special joint hearing Wednesday to involve local officials and residents in...