Susan Collins

Your report, which came out earlier this week, notes that the Treasury could seek to negotiate a maximum rate that would be a flat, fixed percentage of all transaction dollars.

So does this get back to the point that the chairman made that you have two big issuers who control 80 percent of the market?

It was. This is scary.

Wait a minute. Are you not in the leadership?

I must say when you first brought this issue up when we were discussing our legislation, I had no idea how pervasive the use of credit and debit cards were within the Federal Government.

That surprises me, given the amount of transactions that the Federal Government is doing.

Without better planning, millions of American workers will be facing retirement years that are anything but golden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me begin by thanking you for scheduling this hearing today on the all-important subject of retirement savings.

Our bill would accelerate the research for plug-in hybrid technologies for heavy duty trucks.

Ultimately, our success in Afghanistan depends on the ability of the ANSF to take over the fight and to provide security for the country.

Mr. President, the Senator from California has misrepresented what my amendment would do. It does not repeal or change the requirement that EPA has for people to be trained before they remove lead-based paint. But the fact is, the EPA…

My bipartisan amendment is a common sense approach to protecting both jobs and children's health, and it has to do with the new regulation the EPA has put into effect as of April 22 that requires mandatory training for anyone who is…

I support the purpose of this rule because we want to continue our efforts to rid toxic lead-based paint from our homes. I am deeply concerned, however, as are many of my colleagues, that the EPA has completely botched the implementation…

What is alarming to me is the first report was nearly 2 years ago, and yet we have a subsequent report just last month that indicates the same kinds of problems.

Should there not be more coordination among those three agencies?

Just reorganizing the MMS does not deal with the essential issues of accountability and culture.

If not for the extraordinary leadership of Chairman Joe Lieberman and the key support from Ranking Member Susan Collins for the amendment to stop the IIO privatization study, I would not be here today

But, wait. Supply is ample. Why are prices going up?

The hospitals reported providing an additional 2,000 pages of documents required by the FTC.

Speaking of the cost of heating oil--home heating oil or gasoline, there was a company in my State that was recently the victim of cybercrime...

I am not taking a position on whether or not this merger should be approved, but I am troubled about what happened in this case.

I think that's a huge issue. At a time when healthcare costs are spiraling out of sight, and the cost of prescription drugs is a major part of that, the idea that consumers are paying $35 billion more, over the last--or over the next 10…

The FTC deals with issues that affect the economic life of all Americans.

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the budget request of the Federal Trade Commission.

It has this Big Brother connotation to it that is very disturbing.