Susan Collins

I encourage them to work with HUD, to work with local officials.

The Administration is proposing once again to zero out important programs like the Bridge Formula Program.

I don't know what more evidence you could need than a Stage III clinical trial.

CMS needs to stay in its lane. FDA is in charge of drug approval, not CMS.

I just do not understand CMS's misguided and outright unprecedented decision to not cover a whole class of Alzheimer's drugs.

I want to express directly, too, my deep concern and disappointment about that agreement.

You need people to be at work. You need people to be in the office.

Now, some of our colleagues, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, has recommended that we raise up to $2 million or even up to $10 million.

There is no safer place in the U.S. banking system to put your deposits.

Families, of course, are also counting on us to raise the debt limit, you just talked about this, without drama, without delay.

We have a responsibility to deliver for the American people by working together to draft and pass funding bills

The IRS is now answering 90 percent of its phone calls. That is a dramatic improvement from the 13 percent last year.

Strong funding for Treasury means strong enforcement of our sanctions against Russia and Iran, the drug cartels, and other dangerous actors.

Advancing Middle East peace, regional integration, and normalization between Israel and its neighbors is a priority of this Administration and this agency.

How anyone could be shocked that the Taliban resumed its extraordinary harsh measures against children, and against girls and women, is beyond me.

What does all this mean for the delivery of assistance to women and girls in Afghanistan? Are we really going to be able to reach them?

My concern is this: is that money really going to get to women and children?

We are going to be, shortly, reintroducing that bipartisan bill. It proposes critical reforms to increase the effectiveness and impact of USAID's maternal and child survival programs.

Thank you very much, Chairman Coons. I am delighted to join you today.

In fiscal year 2023, the Department of Defense began to transition its Operation Allies Welcome to the Department of State under Operation Enduring Welcome.

As of December 31, 2022, there were over 147,000 principal applicants in the Afghan SIV pipeline.

Let me encourage you, and the other members of the administration, including the President, to make that case to the American people, much more forcefully.

I think it has a profound impact in Asia, for example. Everyone is watching to see how we and the world respond to this aggression.

I view the two challenges as interconnected, and believe that Russia and China are working in concert to reshape the international order to our disadvantage.

Well, I want to switch to relate it by different topics. But to me, it creates a situation where you are rewarding very wealthy depositors and you are creating the need for a special assessment that is going to be imposed on those…