Apr 23, 2012
Mr. President, it pains me greatly to disagree with my friend and colleague from Tennessee, with whom I have a great friendship and great respect, but what he is essentially offering comes pretty close to a complete substitute for the…
Susan Collins
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Susan Margaret Collins is a United States Senator from Maine, serving since January 7, 1997. A member of the Republican Party, Collins is known for her moderate stance on various issues, often working across party lines. Throughout her tenure, she has focused on a range of topics including healthcare, national security, and economic policy. Collins has been recognized for her independent approach to governance, often emphasizing the importance of bipartisanship in her legislative efforts.
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Apr 23, 2012
Mr. President, I rise today to speak in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 36, which would reject the National Labor Relations Board's, NLRB, rule on representation procedures, the so-called ``ambush election'' rule. I am pleased to be an…
Apr 23, 2012
Mr. President, I too wish to commend the Senator from Virginia for offering this amendment in conjunction with the Senator from Maryland. I wrote to OPM in July of last year about this very issue. I was very concerned about reports in my…
Apr 19, 2012
Mr. President, I want to echo the thanks to everyone who was involved in formulating this very extensive unanimous consent agreement. We have been working extremely hard the last couple of days to make sure we were being fair to all…
Apr 19, 2012
Mr. President, today, I rise to introduce the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, IPAWS, Modernization Act of 2012. I am pleased to be joined by Senators Lieberman, Scott Brown, Akaka, and Carper in introducing this bill. It will…
Apr 18, 2012
Madam President, first of all, the inspector general verifies the amount of the overpayments. His letter to Senator Lieberman, Senator Carper, Senator Scott Brown, and myself, dated February 2, 2012, says: The postal surplus for the…
Apr 18, 2012
Madam President, before my friend and colleague from Maryland leaves the floor, I wish to thank her for her passionate advocacy on behalf of her constituents. I have a similar problem in my home State of Maine, where a processing center…
Apr 18, 2012
Madam President, I wish to discuss in more detail a key provision of the postal reform bill that is before us; that is, the provision that would refund to the Postal Service an $11 billion overpayment that the Postal Service has made to…
Apr 18, 2012
Mr. President, I, too, want to comment on this issue of the prefunding for the health care benefits of future retirees. I think it is important to note that when the 2006 law was written, the Postal Service supported this provision because…
Apr 18, 2012
Madam President, the Government Accountability Office has also looked at this issue and found that OPM's Actuary did assess that there was an overpayment--what GAO calls a surplus. There is one paragraph in the GAO letter that I…
Apr 17, 2012
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak for up to 30 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Apr 17, 2012
Madam President, at a later time I am going to speak in strong opposition to the substitute offered by the Senator from Arizona, but I must say that he has every right to offer that substitute. We should fully debate it, and then we should…
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