Susan Collins Quotations

Under its current business model, the Postal Service's financial future is not viable.

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

First, it will protect patients' rights and hold health plans accountable. Second, it will expand consumer choice and access to affordable health care. And third, it will improve health care quality and outcomes.

FEMA is so disorganized that it's buying ice, trucking it all over the country and placing it as far as possible from the people who could use it.

FEMA is discredited, demoralized and dysfunctional. It is beyond repair. Just tweaking the organizational chart will not solve the problem.

FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy in which the American people have completely lost faith. There are many good people who work at FEMA. But they have lacked the leaders, the tools, the systems, and the budget to be effective.

(It) raises very serious questions about whether Sidney Blumenthal was truthful in his sworn deposition,

Senator Graham's amendment complements Senator McCain's amendment. At the same time, his amendment prevents detainees who are not U.S. citizens from filing habeas corpus lawsuits in federal courts.

troubling concerns that the Army Corps' ongoing repair and reconstruction efforts have been insufficient.

The report is so strong in its recommendations that I'm not surprised that the department is trying to debunk them,