From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Susan Collins
Susan Collins
Susan Collins Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7, 1952) is the ju-
nior United States Senator from Maine and a member of
the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1996,
she is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Collins is
regarded as a moderate within the Republican Party.[cita-
tion needed]
Early life
One of six children, Susan Collins was born in Caribou,
Maine, where her family has operated a lumber business
since 1844.[1] Her parents, Patricia R. (née McGuigan) and
Donald F. Collins, each served as mayor of Caribou; her
father also served in both houses of the Maine Legis-
lature.[2][3][4] Her uncle, Samuel W. Collins, Jr., sat on
the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from 1988 to 1994.[5]
Her mother was born in Barranca-Bermeja, Colombia, to
American parents.[4] Collins attended Caribou High
United States Senator School, where she was president of the student council.[6]
from Maine
During her senior year of high school in 1971, Collins was
Incumbent chosen to participate in the U.S. Senate Youth Program,
through which she visited Washington, D.C. for the first
Assumed office
January 3, 1997 time and engaged in a two-hour conversation with U.S.
Serving with Olympia Snowe Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME).[6] Collins is the
first program delegate elected to the Senate and current-
Preceded by William Cohen
ly holds the seat once held by Smith.
Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Homeland After graduating from Caribou High School, she con-
Security and Governmental Affairs tinued her education at St. Lawrence University in Can-
In office ton, New York.[7] Like her father before her, she was
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 elected to the Phi Beta Kappa national academic honor
society.[1] She graduated from St. Lawrence magna cum
Preceded by Joe Lieberman
laude with a bachelor’s degree in government in 1975.[1]
Succeeded by Joe Lieberman
Personal details Early political career
Born Susan Margaret Collins Following graduation, Collins worked as a legislative as-
December 7, 1952 (1952-12-07) sistant to U.S. Representative, and later U.S. Senator, Wil-
Caribou, Maine
liam Cohen (R-ME) from 1975 to 1987.[7] She was also
Political party Republican staff director of the Oversight of Government Manage-
ment Subcommittee on the United States Senate Com-
Spouse(s) none
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Residence Bangor, Maine (1981–1987).[7]
Alma mater St. Lawrence University (B.A.) In 1987, Collins returned to Maine and joined the cab-
inet of Governor John R. McKernan, Jr. as Commissioner
Occupation Public Official of the Department of Professional and Financial Regula-
Religion Roman Catholic tion.[1] She was appointed the New England regional di-
rector for the Small Business Administration by Presi-
Website Senator Susan Collins dent George H. W. Bush in 1992.[2] After briefly serving in
this post until the 1992 election of Democrat Bill Clinton,
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she moved to Massachusetts and became Deputy State
Treasurer of Massachusetts under Joe Malone in 1993.[7]
Returning to Maine, Collins won an eight-way Repub-
lican primary in the 1994 gubernatorial election, becom-
ing the first woman to be nominated by a major party for
Governor of Maine.[2] During the campaign, she received
little support from Republican leaders and was criticized
by conservative groups for her more liberal views on so-
cial issues. She lost the general election, receiving 23%
of the vote and placing third behind Democrat Joseph E.
Brennan and the winner, Independent candidate Angus
King.[8]
In December 1994, Collins became the founding exec-
With fellow Maine Senator Olympia Snowe
utive director of the Center for Family Business at Husson
College in Bangor.[1] She served in this post until 1996,
motion that would have allowed the Senate to vote sep-
when she announced her candidacy for the seat in the
arately on the charges and the remedy. When the mo-
U.S. Senate being vacated by her former boss, William
tion failed, both Snowe and Collins subsequently voted to
Cohen, who retired to become U.S. Secretary of Defense
acquit, believing that while Clinton had broken the law
under President Clinton. With Cohen’s public endorse-
by committing perjury, the charges did not amount to
ment, she won a difficult four-way primary and faced
grounds for removal from office.
Joe Brennan, her Democratic opponent from the 1994 gu-
Collins voted with the majority in favor of the Iraq
bernatorial election, in the general election. She even-
War Resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to
tually defeated Brennan by a margin of 49% to 44%. She
go to war against Iraq, on October 10, 2002.[15]
was reelected in 2002 over State Senator Chellie Pingree
On October 21, 2003, with Senate Democrats, Collins
(D), 58%-42%, and again in 2008 over Rep. Tom Allen (D),
was one of the three Republican Senators to oppose the
61.5%-38.5%. In both elections, she carried every county
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. She did however join the
in Maine.
majority of Republicans in voting for Laci and Conner’s
Law to increase penalties for killing the unborn while
Senate career committing a violent crime against the mother.
Described as one of "the last survivors of a once common On May 23, 2005, Collins was one of fourteen senators
species of moderate Northeastern Republican,"[5] Collins to forge a compromise on the Democrats’ use of the ju-
is considered a bipartisan and centrist member of the dicial filibuster, thus allowing the Republican leadership
Republican Party, and an influential player in the U.S. Se- to end debate without having to exercise the so-called
nate.[9][10][11][12] She is a member of several moderate or- "nuclear option". Under the agreement the minority par-
ganizations within the Republican Party, including the ty would retain the power to filibuster a Presidential ju-
Republican Main Street Partnership, Republican Majority dicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance",
For Choice, Republicans for Choice, The Wish List, Repub- and three Bush appellate court nominees (Janice Rogers
licans for Environmental Protection, and the Republican Brown, Priscilla Owen, and William Pryor) would receive
Leadership Council. Her voting record was at one time a vote by the full Senate, while two others, Henry Saad
center-left which has caused some Republicans to label and William Myers, were expressly denied such protec-
her as a "Republican in Name Only" (RINO). Although she tion. Saad and Myers both eventually withdrew their
shares a centrist ideology with Maine’s senior Senator, names from consideration.
Olympia Snowe, Collins is considered a "half-turn more Collins voted against the restrictions on travel to Cu-
conservative" than Snowe.[5] Collins has consistently ba, harsher punishments for drug users, and amending
been endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, a major the U.S. Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriages. She
LGBT rights organization; she was one of six Republicans has also joined the moderates in the Republican Party
running in 2008 to be endorsed by the HRC.[13] She sup- and a vast majority of Democrats in supporting campaign
ported John McCain in the 2008 election for President of finance reform laws. In 2003 she was the only Republican
the United States.[14] to vote for limiting a tax cut in order to help rural hospi-
tals.
Voting record Collins has voted against some free-trade agreements
including the Dominican Republic – Central America Free
In the 1990s, Collins played an important role during the Trade Agreement. In 1999 she was one of only four
U.S. Senate’s impeachment trial of Bill Clinton when she Republicans (along with her colleague Olympia Snowe) to
and fellow Maine Senator Olympia Snowe sponsored a vote for a Wellstone amendment to the Trade and Devel-
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opment Act of 2000 which would have conditioned trade As ranking member of the Homeland Security and
benefits for Caribbean countries on "compliance with in- Governmental Affairs Committee, Collins and committee
ternationally recognized labor rights." This vote, joined chairman Senator Joe Lieberman voiced concerns about
only by Republicans Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter, put budget, outside contractors, privacy and civil liberties re-
her to the political left of many Democratic senators in- lating to the National Cyber Security Center, the Com-
cluding 2008 presidential contenders John Edwards, prehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative and United
Christopher Dodd, and Joseph Biden. States Department of Homeland Security plans to en-
Collins coauthored, along with Senator Joe Lieber- hance Einstein, the program which protects federal net-
man, the Collins-Lieberman Intelligence Reform and Ter- works.[30] Citing improved security and the benefits of
rorism Prevention Act of 2004. This law implemented information sharing, as of mid-2008, Collins was satisfied
many of the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission with the response the committee received from Secre-
modernizing and improving America’s intelligence sys- tary Michael Chertoff.[31]
tems. In September 2008, Collins joined the Gang of 20, a bi-
In October 2006, President George W. Bush signed partisan group seeking a comprehensive energy reform
into law major port security legislation coauthored by bill. The group is pushing for a bill that would encourage
Collins and Washington Senator Patty Murray. The new state-by-state decisions on offshore drilling and autho-
law includes major provisions to significantly strengthen rize billions of dollars for conservation and alternative
security at U.S. ports. energy.[32]
Collins voted in favor of and for the extension of the Ultimately, Collins was one of just three Republican
Bush tax cuts.[16][17][18] She offered an amendment to the lawmakers to vote for the American Recovery and Rein-
original bill that allowed for tax credits to school teach- vestment Act,[33] earning heated criticism from the right
ers who purchase classroom materials.[19] for crossing party lines on the bill.[34] In mid-December
Collins voted for the confirmation of two U.S. 2009, Collins was again one of three Republican senators
Supreme Court Justice nominees, Samuel Alito and John to back a $1.1 trillion appropriations bill for the fiscal
G. Roberts.[20][21] In July 2009, Collins announced her in- year beginning in 2010, joining Thad Cochran of Missis-
tention to vote for the confirmation of President Barack sippi and Kit Bond of Missouri in compensating for three
Obama’s first U.S. Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Court of Democratic "nay" votes to pass the bill over a threatened
Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, breaking from the oppo- GOP filibuster.[35]
sition led by several conservative Republican senators. On January 29, 2009 Collins voted in favor of the Chil-
On September 19, 2007, she voted against a motion dren’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
to invoke cloture on Senator Arlen Specter’s amendment (H.R. 2).[36]
proposing to restore habeas corpus for those detained by Collins opposed President Barack Obama’s health re-
the United States.[22] form legislation; she voted against the Patient Protection
Collins, joining the Senate majority, voted in favor of and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,[37] and she
the Protect America Act, an amendment to the Foreign voted against the Health Care and Education Reconcilia-
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Additionally, she tion Act of 2010.[38]
voted to deny congressional oversight of Central Intelli- The Cantwell-Collins bill (S. 2877),[39] also called the
gence Agency spying programs.[23] Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal (CLEAR)
Siding with the majority, Collins voted for the Mili- Act,[40] directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish
tary Commissions Act of 2006 that stripped the right to a a program to regulate the entry of fossil carbon (fossil fu-
writ of habeas corpus and access to a lawyer for prisoners el) into commerce in the United States, to promote re-
held of charges of terrorism by the U.S. government.[24] newable energy jobs and economic growth.[41][42] The
She voted against an amendment to that bill that would bill is bipartisan with Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from
have allowed defendants the right to habeas corpus.[25] Washington.
In 2004, along a mainly party-line vote, Collins voted On December 18, 2010, Collins voted in favor of the
against an amendment to prohibit "profiteering and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of
fraud relating to military action, relief, and reconstruc- 2010. [43][44][45][46][47][48]
tion." [26] She later sponsored the Accountability in Collins has an unbroken voting record in the Senate,
Government Contracting Act of 2007, approved unani- never missing a single vote since becoming a senator in
mously by the Senate, which would create more compe- 1997. [49]
tition between military contractors.[27]
Agreeing with the majority in both parties, Collins Committee appointments
voted in favor of the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment,[28] • • Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
which could give President Bush and the executive Development, Food and Drug Administration,
branch the authorization for military force against and Related Agencies
Iran.[29]
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• Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Maine U.S. Senate Election 1996
Government (Ranking Member)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
• Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and
Related Agencies Republican Susan Collins 298,422 49.2
• Subcommittee on Military Construction, Democratic Joe Brennan 266,226 43.9
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Green John Rensenbrink 23,441 3.9
• Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and
Taxpayers William P. Clarke 18,618 3.1%
Urban Development, and Related Agencies
• • Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Maine Gubernatorial Election 1994
Capabilities Party Candidate Votes % ±%
• Subcommittee on Personnel
Independent Angus King 180,829 35
• Subcommittee on SeaPower
• (Ranking Member) Democratic Joe Brennan 172,951 34
• As Ranking Member of the full committee, Republican Susan Collins 117,990 23
Collins may serve as an ex officio member of all
subcommittees.
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• Susan Collins campaign website official campaign site
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Susan Collins
United States Senate
Preceded by United States Senator (Class 2) from Maine Incumbent
William Cohen 1997–present
Served alongside: Olympia Snowe
Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Succeeded by
Joe Lieberman Committee Joe Lieberman
D-Connecticut 2003–2007 I-Connecticut
Party political offices
Preceded by Republican nominee for Governor of Maine Succeeded by
John R. McKernan, Jr. 1994 James B. Longley, Jr.
Preceded by Republican nominee for United States Sena- Succeeded by
William Cohen tor from Maine Most recent
2)
(Class 2)
1996, 2002, 2008
United States order of precedence
Preceded by United States Senators by seniority Succeeded by
Jeff Sessions 36th Mike Enzi
R-Alabama R-Wyoming
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Name Collins, Susan
Alternative names
Short description American Senator
Date of birth December 7, 1952
Place of birth Caribou, Maine
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