Susan Collins

This year, we will commemorate the worst attack ever on the United States. In doing so, we must ask ourselves, 'Are we safer?'

If the President does not empower the DNI, we can write all the language in the world, and the DNI is not going to truly be in charge.

DOD funds provided for specific purposes, but no longer needed or in excess of that requirement, should be returned to the General Fund of the Treasury.

Let's be clear: only in the current climate here in Washington, DC, can an agency propose a cut in the rate of growth of future budgets and call it a triumph.

Every aspect of discretionary--the discretionary budget must be scrutinized. No agency can be off limits.

We cannot continue to spend what we don't have, and we must closely scrutinize every Federal agency.

I think it is a false choice between providing the money quickly enough and providing it in a way that guards against fraud.

I want to say, here and now, that we are not going to give out $2,000 debit cards.

And were not those $2,000 debit cards just an invitation to improper spending?

I think it is worth the money of going after it because of the message it sends that it is not going to be tolerated.

I do want to point out some bright spots in the September 2010 DHS Inspector General's report.

Our thoughts are with the Japanese people and with the rescuers and responders, including units from our own country.

I want to ask you a series of questions about that, but since my time on this round is almost expired, I will wait for the next round.

I hope that FEMA will have made significant progress in improving our Nation's preparedness for the next catastrophe.

It is troubling to me that you can go back decades, apparently, and there still is a lack of attention to this problem.

I want to join the Chairman in thanking former Inspector General Skinner for his extraordinary service.

But as Senator Collins points out, we also have to declare, when are we stable and when do we need to engage the safeties to make sure we are not just spending money or doing things that are no longer necessary.

Administrator, you have pointed out that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would be the lead agency if the United States were to experience the kind of accident or level of damage at a commercial nuclear reactor that is occurring now in…

I pushed very hard for this reform, I am very pleased to see the progress that has been made.

The Brunswick Naval Air Station is slated to close as an active military installation on May 31, bringing to a close a proud era in naval aviation in Brunswick, Maine.

I hope that it would be as long as possible, 60 to 90 days, so that there can be ample time to review the rules.

To set limits that are far more stringent than necessary to protect public health, at a time, particularly, when the economy's very fragile, really concerns me.

Well, I have to say that the Congress gave you that authority for a reason.

We wrote then that we were concerned that they would result in significant job losses to the forest products industry at a time when the industry was really struggling.

Administrator, let me start with an issue that I hear about frequently from my constituents. I get calls, emails, letters, conversations all the time about constituents who are finding great difficulty in using an ethanol blended form of…