Susan Collins

We need to take an all-of-the-above approach to addressing the opioid epidemic.

I believe the bills that many of us have co-sponsored called for far more funding than that, like $386 million.

I personally am surprised that the Department has not been more proactive in that area in submitting requests to the Congress.

State election officials have expressed apprehension about the risk that being too public about the threat that we face might provoke exactly the impression that they're endeavoring to dispel.

We can't wait. We can't just be focused on November.

We know for certain that the Russians were relentless in their efforts and also that those efforts are ongoing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and again, let me thank you and the Vice Chairman for your strong bipartisan leadership of this investigation.

But just so you know what it is going to be about, you mentioned that lifesaving drugs such as naloxone have seen exorbitant price increases in the past 3 years, in some cases, as much as 487 percent.

I have encouraged Dr. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, to use additional research money, which Congress has appropriated, to focus on finding a non-addictive painkiller.

It is evident that relying solely on a moment-in-time snapshot of an applicant's security profile to determine clearances and secure our information and facilities is simply not working.

If ManTech has a group of employees working for the government on highly sensitive information and many of the employees of that group think that one of the employees has gone off the rails--developed a drug problem, has financial…

Someone alleging to be from the IRS calls and scares you into paying thousands of dollars or you will be thrown in jail.

I want to thank Senator Collins and the Committee for their interest and work on this problem of scamming of senior citizens.

America's seniors lose a staggering $2.9 billion a year to an ever-growing array of financial exploitation schemes and scams.

We must not let up on our efforts to educate seniors, their families, and their caregivers about these scams.

The Department of Justice announced the largest coordinated, nationwide sweep of elder fraud cases in our history.

This Committee's ongoing commitment to fighting fraud against older Americans is raising awareness and making a real difference.

I rise to join my colleagues, Senator Rounds and Senator King, in clarifying the intent of a provision from the Immigration Security and Opportunity Act, which has been offered as an amendment. What this provision seeks to do is send a…

This is an election year in our country and it's, frankly, frustrating to me that we haven't passed legislation to help states strengthen their security of their voting systems.

It's been ridiculous, totally inaccurate. In our view, the suggestion the CIA was swindled is false.

Is this part of the Russian campaign to undermine faith in Western democracies?

I think that's something that we could do in this situation as well.

What we heard is it was really hard for them to learn to navigate the school system all over again

We have seen the number of such families soar by 24 percent over a 5-year period due to the opioid crisis

The bill would create a task force to help develop and distribute information designed to help kinship parents