Susan Collins

Military support to civil authorities during a major disaster relief is absolutely critical to effective response and recovery.

Do you think our European partners should be contributing more to this significant mission?

Given the tremendous sacrifice that our servicemen and women are making, I want to be sure that the strategy currently being pursued can work.

DOD has spent billions on nine ERP information technology systems that are intended to be part of DOD's solution to its fiscal problems.

The fact is that our Navy currently has the fewest numbers of ships since before World War I.

I think it's absolutely critical. I understand that we're drawing down our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, but I'm very concerned about the strain and pressure of repeated deployments.

The Army has implemented over 20 of the recommendations proposed by the DOD's Independent Review Panel.

My concern is that the budget is at risk of dragging the strategy, rather than the other way around.

Our European partners make significant contributions to the NATO integrated air and missile defense mission.

I think it's a tremendous and overdue initiative.

Can you assure me that the Army's manpower reductions will not be made until the Army has reached its target dwell time of 2 years at home for every 1 year deployed for soldiers?

I worked with Senator Lieberman to investigate the U.S. Government's failure to prevent the Fort Hood attack.

The people of Maine have paid a heavy price for the war in Afghanistan. Our State has suffered the highest rate of casualties of any State in the Nation.

I am particularly concerned about the gap when I look at the Navy's shipbuilding budget.

If we do not have a plan in place after we have deposed a tyrant, that chaos and violence ensues.

I don't see how we get to a stable state in Afghanistan.

That says to me that we are going to have to continue to be a major contributor to paying for those security forces forever.

I just don't feel any confidence that we know what comes next.

I think there is something wrong with the evaluation system if it allowed Major Hasan to be promoted time and time again in the face of increasingly erratic and troubling behavior and also poor performance.

That was an extraordinarily interesting exchange that you just had with Mr. Mudd.

The Administration still is refusing to acknowledge that violent Islamist extremism is the ideology that fuels attacks.

The last, best chance to potentially prevent the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood.

We still have a lot of cultural barriers to overcome here, and even if we change the structure, if we do not change the willingness to disseminate and analyze information and continue the work that Director Robert Mueller is doing in…

The recommendations in our report will become a reality.

The information and oversight SIGIR has provided over the last several years has been invaluable to my colleagues and I to evaluate the U.S. mission in Iraq.