Susan Collins

Another threat to the United States is a terrorist attack. I think with our focus on China and Russia and Iran, North Korea, we can't lose sight of the fact that Afghanistan is once again a safe haven for many terrorist groups.

Are you concerned about the fact that the weapons that the Americans gave to the Security Forces could now be turned against us and our Western allies in a terrorist attack?

If it's 20 percent shortfall in fuel, you're going to have 20 percent less flying hours.

I have serious doubts that the Administration's budget request provides all of the resources necessary to deter an aggressive China and to deal with other global threats.

I also agree with Chairman Milley's written testimony that completing appropriations bills on time is a necessary condition to credibly deter China.

It is critical that the Administration provide Ukraine with what it needs in time to defend and take back its sovereign territory.

The Administration's 2022 National Defense Strategy rightly captures the importance of deterring China.

The problem with that explanation is insurance is based on the principle that the healthy are subsidizing the sick.

In 2018, I chaired a hearing of the Senate Aging Committee on why the costs of insulin was so high.

I think we have a very strange system here because--to say the least, because most of us would think that the rebate, the discount that is negotiated by the PBMs, would largely benefit the consumer at the pharmacy counter.

What we found was a system of getting insulin from the manufacturer to the customer that was rife with perverse incentives, convoluted and opaque.

In my judgment, there is no investment that pays greater dividends to American families than our investment in biomedical research.

I know personally what this means to American families.

I'm so frustrated that these new therapies based on sound science approved by the FDA are not reaching patients.

I am puzzled at the flat funding for Alzheimer's research.

I'm so frustrated that these new therapies based on sound science approved by the FDA are not reaching patients.

I know personally what this means to American families.

I am puzzled at the flat funding for Alzheimer's research.

In my judgment, there is no investment that pays greater dividends to American families than our investment in biomedical research.

I'm so frustrated that these new therapies based on sound science approved by the FDA are not reaching patients.

I am puzzled at the flat funding for Alzheimer's research.

In my judgment, there is no investment that pays greater dividends to American families than our investment in biomedical research.

I know personally what this means to American families.

Maine Veterans' Homes facilities in rural parts of our state fill a critical need, and they allow our veterans to stay close to their loved ones.

Making sure that our veterans receive the care that they have earned is personally very important to me.