Susan Collins

We need to make sure that parents have choice and thinking about family childcare as a integral part of our--the fabric of our childcare system, especially in rural communities, I think is really important.

During the past years, in the midst of the pandemic, the YMCA has really stepped up to the plate.

If we all are serious about the United States competing against and deterring China, we have to consider our vital defense infrastructure.

I am concerned, however, that the Administration is taking a very heavy-handed approach to achieving the goal of affordable housing.

I have long advocated for a robust infrastructure package.

There's no doubt that Americans are tired of our endless wars in Afghanistan.

Let me just say that I recognize this is a local and state decision, but the signals you send, the guidance you provide will be very influential.

I am concerned that San Diego, under your leadership, has closed its schools for in-person instruction this year.

I think this is an area that cries out for reform.

How should Congress ensure that we are recognizing innovative science versus rewarding an innovative legal strategy that is simply designed to block more affordable competitors by gaming the patent system?

Even though there are several biosimilars for the best-selling drug in the world, Humira, and they've been on the market in the European Union since 2018, American patients must wait another two years for them to be available here due to…

I also worked with Senator Bob Casey to investigate various entities in the opaque market for pricing of prescription drugs.

Later this spring, along with my colleague Senator Tim Kaine, I will reintroduce the Biologic Patent Transparency Act to prevent drug manufacturers from gaming the patent system.

I led a bipartisan investigation with then-Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri on sudden price spikes of off-patent drugs.

I think we're in the early innings of what will become an evolving set of tools that many innovator drug companies may engage with to protect their assets, and this runs completely counter to the objectives of competition for biosimilars…

As co-chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, which I founded in 1998, Senator Jeanne Shaheen and I introduced legislation in the last Congress to create a new pricing model for insulin.

Let's bring this bill to the Senate floor as separate legislation so that we can have full and open debate and amendment to come up with the best solutions.

When a doctor prescribes a needed medication, an insurmountable barrier to taking it should not be its cost.

You need to do it now.

We can keep teachers safe. We can keep kids safe. We can open schools and we have the ability to do that now.

Unemployment insurance is absolutely critical to individuals who have lost jobs through no fault of their own.

There can be no excuse for the kind of rampant fraud that has been so prevalent in California.

It was a very good exchange of views. I wouldn’t say that we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a two hour meeting. But what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further at the staff level and amongst…

I was pleased to see that you agree that the Chinese Communist Party uses these institutes as an instrument for propaganda.

Disruption would have been easier than what they did. They had focused, disciplined data theft.