Susan Collins

According to the White House's own assessment, as posted on its online 'Dashboard', the EPA is responsible for roughly 1 out of every 5 pending regulatory actions currently under review.

I look forward to talking to him about the exciting research and development that is occurring in the State of Maine.

I also want to talk to him about the gem of a national park that we have in the State of Maine, which the Secretary has visited, Acadia National Park.

One of the most promising renewable energy technologies in the country, indeed in the world, is the development of deepwater offshore wind energy...

I do not want us to lose the race for the development of deepwater offshore wind technology which does offer such promise.

I just want to welcome our former colleague and good friend, the Secretary, back to the U.S. Senate.

I am truly so excited about this opportunity.

But we are still going to have a $14 trillion debt.

If the high road policy were put into place, it would actually be the higher-cost road

We cannot be the first generation to betray that legacy.

The budget presented by the President last month fails in both respects.

We should be trying to decrease the cost of Federal procurements, not put artificial requirements and barriers

The government seems to be stuck at awarding approximately a third of its contracts non-competitively.

The President's budget laid out a path that would achieve primary balance by 2017.

Do you think that this level of spending is sustainable?

I am deeply concerned about the President's lack of leadership on the challenge we face.

Achieving primary balance in a single year, a year that is several years from now, is not the same thing as getting long-term spending under control.

The President's budget has huge and expanding deficits for the next 10 years. It does not bring the deficit down.

The $400 billion in savings that the President has proposed is less than one penny for every dollar that the President is proposing to spend

I completely associate myself with the comments made by Chairman Lieberman about the IT challenges.

One of my primary concerns is the number of homeless Americans.

Thank you, Chairman Murray. You have been a strong and dedicated leader of this subcommittee.

I am opposed to zeroing-out effective programs. Rather, a policy of shared sacrifice will help us right our economic ship of state.

So is HUD looking for offsets for those costs? $1.5 billion is a fair chunk of change.

The problem is it saves money not for HUD but for the Medicaid program, for the corrections system, for State and local governments.