Susan Collins actually said...

"I hope that as MMS looks at leasing opportunities on the OCS for renewable resources, that you will revise the draft regulations which do not include the Gulf of Maine at this time."

"I was pleased to cosponsor that legislation, and while it did not itself become law, it certainly helped prompt Congress."

"Mr. Chairman, no one is more conscious than I of the risks that our Nation faces through an attack on a chemical facility."

"The Long Creek watershed near Portland, Maine is one of the first in the Nation being required to reduce nonpoint source pollution under the Clean Water Act."