Susan Collins: “I want to ensure that we are taking every action necessary to try to lessen or prevent the chances of such a tragedy…”

“It’s appalling to me that some of the rhetoric is coming from public officials on both sides of the aisle who should know better than to levy personal and political attacks against the judiciary and the court specifically,” Collins said.

Senator Collins asked the OMB to withdraw parts of the rule that would unduly burden scientific and biomedical research and small communities.

He’s the one that needs to respond to the reports. I’m not going to comment on them. But I will say that based on widespread reporting it appears that he struggles to control his temper.

They don’t have them yet. The orders were placed, but they couldn’t [process] the orders when the government was shut down.