Susan Collins actually said...

"Then what explains that delay, days of delay?"

"But do you think if we had an American surveillance balloon going over sensitive Chinese Military sites; that the Chinese Government would have, for a minute, hesitated before taking it down?"

"Well, I have got to tell you, I think they would not hesitate if we violated their territorial airspace, to disable, and take down our surveillance platform."

"As the Senator from Alaska would tell us all, Alaskan airspace is American airspace, period."