Susan Collins

I don't believe that we are in the position that we are in now due to a lack of funding, but rather a lack of planning.

Has any of that money been used for non-testing related purposes at the border?

Over the past 2 years, Congress has appropriated $82.6 billion specifically for testing.

About a decade ago, when former Senator Joe Lieberman and I headed the Homeland Security Committee, I remember vividly testimony that we received from the Treasury Department in which the officials said that Saudi Arabia was the epicenter…

I want to talk a bit about the fact that we are pivoting away from terrorism and terrorism financing in the focus on Russia and China.

I think without a doubt we are greatly concerned about the cyber threats posed by China and Russia to the U.S. financial system

What can be done to ensure that any humanitarian assistance that is sent to Afghanistan, whose people are in dire need, is not diverted to strengthen terrorist groups?

Thank you, Chairman.

The collapse of Afghanistan amid the chaotic withdrawal by the administration has allowed the Taliban obviously to seize control of the country.

Well, just quickly, a final question. Would Iran be on your list?

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause, Senators rising.) The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Republican whip.

In 2019, when Congress enacted the SECURE Act, which many of us cosponsored, it included a provision that I authored...

In April, I introduced the SIMPLE Plan Modernization Act with Senator Warner.

Thank you very much, Senator Scott. That is typically gracious of you.

The guidance from our health experts over the past year has been conflicting and inconsistent, and that heightens the distrust in these institutions.

I think all of us can agree that students suffer when they are not in school.

Protecting this right is important to me.

The Texas law is extreme and harmful, I oppose the court's decision to allow the law to remain in effect for now while these underlying constitutional and procedural questions are litigated.

Legal abortion is safe in this country in a permanent way.

Republican senators like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said they were quite sure, they were convinced that all these Trump nominees to the Supreme Court certainly recognize Roe versus Wade as settled precedent.

To my knowledge, Judge Kavanaugh is the first Supreme Court nominee to express the view that precedent is not merely a practice and tradition, but rooted in Article 3 of our Constitution itself.

I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh will overturn Roe v. Wade.

I could not vote for a judge who had demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because it would indicate a lack of respect for precedent.

The Bureau has more than 2,000 operations going on, investigations, that tie back to the Chinese government.

The FBI has estimated that China's theft of simply American intellectual property runs from between $300 billion to $600 billion a year.