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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 28, 2021

I rise today to reintroduce the Justice for the Living victims of Lockerbie Act. This bill would create a process to seek justice for a group Pan American World Airways pilots who lost their careers and pensions following the bombing of…

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

I am pleased to join my colleague from Michigan, Senator Peters, in introducing the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experiments, and Research Act, known as the AFTER Act, to promote the adoption or retirement of animals used for research by…

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

Before the tariff, China was the second largest importer of U.S. lobster, purchasing $128 million worth in 2017.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

I totally agree with Senator Burr's comments that we need to make this a permanent part of our healthcare structure.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

We obviously prefer domestic sources, but when domestic sources can't meet the demand, as is the case right now, and prices are so high, we desperately need a new agreement to be negotiated so that we're not involved in imposing under…

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

Your predecessor made real progress by securing a commitment from the Chinese to match or exceed their pre-tariff purchase levels.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

More Mainers died of drug overdoses last year than died from COVID. We set a new record of 502 Mainers who died from drug overdoses.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

During the first month under the new tariffs, however, live lobster exports to China declined by 64 percent.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

The Maine lobster industry has been hard hit by the 25 percent retaliatory tariff that China imposed on the U.S. lobster industry in 2018.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

In addition to the need to expand telemedicine so those 83,000 Maine households have access, is there also a benefit--

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

In February, Sen. Sinema, Sen. Kelley, and I led several of our colleagues in writing to President Biden to urge him to remove the Section 301 tariffs that had been levied on food and beverage imported from the EU since October 2019 due to…

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 27, 2021

As a result of the worldwide Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs, which my colleagues have all mentioned today, the European Union is said to double retaliatory tariffs to 50 percent on certain imported products, including recreational…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 26, 2021

We support the direct regulation of methane just for the reasons you said, that it is very potent and we need to have regulation in place to ensure that we have adequate controls throughout the industry.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 26, 2021

We need to make sure that parents have choice and thinking about family childcare as a integral part of our--the fabric of our childcare system, especially in rural communities, I think is really important.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 26, 2021

So you would urge us to vote yes on this resolution to restore the direct regulation?

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 26, 2021

Shouldn't we be talking more about how to reskill and reemploy those jobs rather than trying to change the direction of where the economy is headed?

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Apr 26, 2021

We've taken care of the problem for the vast majority of family-owned businesses or ranchers in the country.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 26, 2021

The major transition was from coal to natural gas. Your state benefited from that and this guy's state didn't benefit.

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