Susan Collins actually said...

we are seeing the escalation of a significant new threat that takes advantage of radicalized violent Islamist extremists within our borders.

The President's new health care law is already causing health insurance premiums to increase for many employers and employees.

We require honest assessments of fiscal realities, untarnished by political calculus.

the thing I fear is discretionary spending, while it is very important and we need to constrain it, is a small part of the total problem.