Susan Collins

It is a mistake for the administration to ignore the housing needs in our rural communities.

If the President is serious about promising fiscal restraint, he has to quit treating taxpayer dollars like Monopoly money.

Is the administration considering the advantages of a Housing First approach to help address the growing number of homeless people?

According to a Pentagon survey, 90 percent of military personnel utilize commissary benefits.

A tremendous opportunity there, as Senator Collins well knows, in part because of the magnitude of the resource and how close it is to those load centers.

I hope that as MMS looks at leasing opportunities on the OCS for renewable resources, that you will revise the draft regulations which do not include the Gulf of Maine at this time.

I do not want our country to lose the edge in the development of alternative energy, particularly offshore wind, because our permitting process is so slow and cumbersome.

Refusing to deal with them, or putting off the tough choices, is not a responsible way to go about it.

I hope, as you do the second round of TIGER grant applications... that you'll take a hard look at that application.

It's a real problem that we're passing just these short-term extensions. I supported and helped advance the bill...

We need a clear-cut, coherent, and detailed blueprint, detailing how taxpayer dollars will be spent to reach our transportation infrastructure goals.

As many of the Recovery Act funds are now spent, the transportation industry faces difficult times ahead if we do not act to make the necessary investments in our transportation infrastructure.

The figures show what an overwhelming demand there is for infrastructure spending along the lines that both of you have outlined.

It's an economic climate where we need to invest our scarce resources in areas, like infrastructure, that will not only build roads and bridges, but help rebuild our economy.

I'm committed to helping you. I'll have our rail administrator in Maine, whenever we can get all the stakeholders together, and we will work with you on a plan to get this funded.

I want to take advantage of this opportunity to bring to your attention, and the attention of my colleagues, a very serious problem that we're facing in northern Maine.

The need for funding is great.

Instead of a serious plan to tackle our Nation's transportation policy challenges, the administration is repeating last year's mistake.

Where are we going to spend all of that money? Where are we going to get all of that money? What's it going to do?

I am concerned about the effect this proposal will have on the Nation's stock of senior housing.

I couldn't agree with you more that it's a real problem that we're passing just these short-term extensions.

He's very concerned that there's no long-term highway funding plan on the horizon.

I'm very proud of the fact that Maine was the first State in the Nation to obligate all of the funding provided by the Recovery Act.

We simply cannot allow 233 miles of line to be abandoned, when there's no other freight service for this large area of Maine.

I am so committed to saving freight rail service for northern Maine.