Following a series of hearings where financial experts said that one reason for the recent spikes in food and energy prices may be due to excessive speculation in the commodities...
Although it is still summer, people in our state and throughout the Northeast already are worried about winter. As I talk to Mainers, I hear time and again how worried they are...
A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senator Susan Collins, is calling on Senate Appropriators to increase funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program. The program has...
U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA) office for Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) has...
The U.S. Navy today notified Senator Collins, who is a Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that it has awarded Bath Iron Works a contract in the amount of $20,753,902....
The 4th of July is a day of noisy celebration. Independence Day is one of quiet gratitude. Amid the fun of families, friends, and communities coming together for America’s...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Co-Chair of the Senate Northeast-Midwest Coalition, today sent a letter to President Bush calling on him to release $120 million in remaining...
Women have always played an important role in the U.S. military, dating back to the Revolutionary War. And the number of women serving in the U.S. military is growing at an...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins today praised the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ announcement to open a new outpatient clinic in the Lewiston-Auburn area. The new clinic...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins today was presented with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners “Legislator of the Year Award” by 18 Maine nurse practitioners, who...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins today announced that she recently sent a letter to Senate leadership supporting the nation’s workforce programs and requesting the restoration of...
Senate Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Susan Collins today urged U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to consider establishing a seasonal port of entry at the...
U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe and U.S. Senator Susan Collins today announced $366,599 in grant funding for the Aroostook County Empowerment Zone. The funding will be used to assist...
U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today announced that three Maine cultural institutions received more than $700,000 in grants from the National Endowment...
High energy costs are having a devastating impact on our economy and on the people of Maine. Truck drivers, small business owners, fishermen, farmers, and countless others are...
Senate Homeland Security Ranking Member Susan Collins reacted to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, revealing serious operational and management challenges facing...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Committee Chairman Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) today held a press conference on...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins was recently presented with a Leadership Award from Bread for the World. Senator Collins received the award for her work on issues aimed at hunger and...
The U.S. Senate has voted against proceeding to a House bill that would extend a number of expiring tax provisions. Senator Collins voted in support of the motion to proceed and...
Earlier this afternoon, U.S. Senator Susan Collins received a phone call from Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter regarding his visit to Bath Iron Works. Secretary Winter toured...