Susan Collins actually said...

"I believe that most people would be surprised to learn that roughly three-quarters of USDA's budget actually goes to providing nutrition assistance."

"I just want to associate myself with the comments that have been made, to express my great concern on what the real-life impact is if Government is unable to function."

"if necessary, we're going to take over the budget negotiations, because we're confident we could produce a budget."

"An important conclusion of our report was that this was not-- this case, with Major Hassan, was not treated as a counterterrorism case."