Susan Collins News Archives

Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 2:56pm. Maine Media Love fest: Over the past few days, U.S. Sen.

The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen.

Sounding more like an independent than a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. , tells ABC News he will campaign for some Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and may not seek the Democratic Senate nomination when he runs for re-election in 2012.

Shortages of H1N1 virus vaccine in the United States has raised questions about President Obama's administration's response to the pandemic, observers said.

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Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., left, talks with ranking Republican Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins wants an explanation about why the H1N1 flu vaccine is so hard to come by.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci on Tuesday urged residents to vote against repealing the state's same-sex marriage law while acknowledging his past opposition to gay marriage.

The US government may end up throwing away unused doses of swine flu vaccine if people cannot get it soon enough, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

When the Senate debated President Barack Obama's economic recovery package in February, Sen.

The congressional race in upstate New Yorka s 23rd District continues to create fascinating divisions in the Republican Party, and the reporting over the weekend in the district highlighted two national Republican figures going different ways.

Senate Democrats are leaning toward including a government-run insurance plan in a health-care measure that would let individual states opt out, a proposal House leaders signaled would be acceptable.

In this May 5, 2009 file photo, newscaster Glenn Beck attends the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in New York.

In pushing to include a government-run health insurance plan in the health care bill, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid , is taking a calculated gamble that the 60 members of his caucus could support the plan if it included a way for states to opt out.

Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava brought two female GOP lawmakers with her on the campaign trail today after a week in which several national Republicans endorsed Conservative Party challenger Doug Hoffman.

After more than a week of deliberations, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is leaning toward including a government-run insurance plan in a health care bill he will soon take to the Senate floor, Democratic senators said Thursday.

Sen. Susan Collins, Maine's junior senator, has a lot of people asking her which way she's leaning on supporting health care reform.

The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama's policy czars to testify before Congress - a decision senators said goes against the president's promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress' constitutional mandate to investigate the administration's actions.

Senator Olympia Snowe said she wona t support the immediate creation of any government-run insurance program and raised the possibility that legislation overhauling the health system wona t be completed this year.

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.

Offshore wind power in the Gulf of Maine got a big boost last week in the form of an $8 million federal grant from the Department of Energy to a consortium headed by the University of Maine.

Senator Bill Nelson believes more Republicans will vote for the health care reform bill in its final phase.

Jerry Call , co-founder of the advocacy group Maine Healthcare Reform, speaks at a rally Wednesday outside the Bangor office of U.S. Sen.

Democrats say a report thatA predicts huge new costs for patients under President Obama's health care reform plan is biased and inaccurate.

A consortium led by the University of Maine has been awarded as much as $8 million in federal stimulus funds to develop technology to harness winds in the Gulf of Maine.

When it comes time to vote, every Democrat in the Senate - and perhaps more than one Republican - will support legislation overhauling the nation's health care system, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee predicted Thursday.

Senators and witnesses at a hearing on Thursday said that extending employee benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian federal employees was a matter of equal pay that could be addressed affordably.

Olympia Snowe voted for the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill and Sen.

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, Ali Weinberg and Kelly Paice *** Nothing's a Big Easy For Obama These Days: Isn't it amazing how LITTLE attention the president's first trip to New Orleans is receiving? Remember when it was the symbol of everything that was wrong with the GOP and everything that was supposed to be right about the ...

Democrats in the U.S. Senate began a difficult hunt Wednesday for common ground on health care reform, seeking to bridge party differences on how to cut costs and extend coverage to millions of people.

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Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent from Connecticut, appears to be taking the lead in the Senate to expand gay rights.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman is ready to re-start a debate over domestic benefits to gay federal employees and their spouses.

Lawmakers on Tuesday heard from a panel of legal experts on whether President Barack Obama's appointment of so-called czars in the executive branch sidesteps the Constitution.

A subsidiary of the state's largest wind power manufacturer will get Maine's first long-term electricity supply contract for its proposed 60-megawatt Rollins Mountain project in Penobscot County, officials said Wednesday.

House Speaker Pelosi of Calif. takes part in her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct.

President Barack Obama isn't skirting the U.S. Constitution or abusing his authority by appointing so-called "czars," or policy coordinators, to oversee certain issues or problems, a Senate panel was told Tuesday.

Obama administration officials said Wednesday there is no chance that ACORN will get a Homeland Security grant it was awarded last month because of a provision in a bill signed into law last week prohibiting any federal funding to the controversial group.

Nearly two hours of testimony Tuesday yielded no conclusive answers to concerns that Sen.

Moderate and conservative Republican senators on Capitol Hill reacted with elation Tuesday to GOP Rep.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci drew from his own experience growing up in a restaurant family -- Momma Baldacci's, of Bangor -- during the grand opening Tuesday of the second tomato greenhouse at Backyard Farms.

Sen. Tom Carper bided his time on health care reform. Rarely in the spotlight, and unfailingly restrained, the Delaware Democrat never staked out a public position on the government insurance option, solidifying his status as the model of an undecided moderate in need of persuading.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan a ' Former Marine John Bernard is the anti-Cindy Sheehan.

When speaking before a veterans group last month, President Obama's words sounded simple and direct.

The US Senate approved legislation on September 30 that allows the US Postal Service to delay $4 billion in payments to a retirees' healthcare fund.

New York may be the nation's second leading producer of apples, and Maine is near the top in potatoes - but the vast majority of the fruit and vegetables eaten in the Northeast come from other parts of the country.