Maine’s senior senator says the legislation will ‘send an international signal that we will never forget the girls of Nigeria’ who were kidnapped simply because they went to school.
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Sen. Collins has ‘reservations’ about privatizing Medicare, repealing health care law without replacement
Those positions would put Maine’s Republican senator at odds with party leaders, who are expected to pursue both initiatives in the new year.
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Lack of data makes financial abuse of seniors nearly impossible to measure, Collins’ committee told
Most states don’t track such cases, the Government Accountability Office reports at a Senate Aging Committee hearing that includes a reference to a recent Maine Sunday Telegram story.
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Gov. LePage says Susan Collins ‘is done in Maine’ for failing to back Trump
That ‘really cooked her goose,’ he says, while asserting that the senator plans to seek work in a Clinton administration. But his target says neither claim is true.
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With Trump headed for the White House, what will Susan Collins do?
Maine’s senior senator could play a key role, but her spot is a tough one: Fall in line behind a president she didn’t want or thumb her nose at a party she cares deeply about.
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Federal agency removing pain management survey questions to address opioid crisis
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was among the senators who initiated the effort to ask the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to change the questionnaire hospitals give to discharged patients.
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Sen. Susan Collins weighs in on presidential race at Harvard forum
Maine’s Republican senator confirms that she won’t vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and says she expects the Republican Party to swing back toward the political center.
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LePage says U.S. needs Trump to wield ‘authoritarian power’
The governor says that he’s worried about the Constitution, and that Trump is needed because the nation is ‘slipping into anarchy’ under President Obama.
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Susan Collins cites 5-year-old who lived in Portland woods in Senate speech on anti-poverty bill
In introducing the Two-Generation Economic Empowerment Act, she recounts the Maine Sunday Telegram’s ‘heart-wrenching’ story about Arianna and her family’s ordeal.
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Collins, King push for VA outpatient clinics
The pair joined with other senators to introduce a bill that would authorize leases on 24 Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, including a proposed expanded outpatient clinic in Portland.