Susan Collins

If you are confirmed and if our provision does become law, do you commit to faithfully reporting the information required by this provision?

By beginning this conversation, we can start to once again push hate groups back into the margins of society.

Colleges can continue to challenge students' views and perspectives while also doing everything we can to put the safety of students and staff and faculty first.

This conversation has to include a discussion about the responsibility of community leaders and college administrators to use their own voices to speak out against hate and refuse to normalize racist or otherwise bigoted viewpoints.

One of the committee's top priorities is to make sure that each of the intelligence agencies is doing everything that it can to minimize the risk posed by insider threats.

One of the issues that really troubles me is the lack of transparency in the system.

There wasn't any investment in R and D that would justify that kind of increase.

We looked at Turing, we looked at Valeant, and what we found was a pattern of certain, what I call, hedge fund pharma companies buying the rights to a drug and then, overnight, increasing the cost by as much as literally 5,000 percent in…

Last year, the Senate Aging Committee did an extensive investigation into the spiraling cost increases of certain prescription drugs.

S. 109 has 45 bipartisan cosponsors.

I think you're absolutely right, that we have to put more effort at the front end of this problem and reduce access by changing prescribing habits, and particularly by allowing partial fills, by training physicians that they should only…

My question to each of you is what more do we need to do? Why are the efforts that everybody is making and working so hard not working?

This headline disturbed me greatly because I feel there's been so much focus on the opioid problem, the epidemic that is tearing apart our communities and costing the lives of so many.

I was a very early supporter and co-sponsor of it many years ago, and I hope it will slide through the Committee, with your help.

It was a lot of those same issues, is the fact that they were overhauling the entire Medicaid program without a significant number of hearings or a deep look into why they were actually doing it.

Senators Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio, Bob Casey, and Susan Collins have introduced the Protecting Seniors During Disasters Act.

We should take that motto to heart, and from this hearing today I can see the huge amount of progress that has been made since I conducted that investigation so many years ago into the very inconsistent and in some ways failed response to…

Older adults matter.

Today, even as we meet, yet another hurricane, Maria, is battering a region still struggling to recover, and it is expected to hit Puerto Rico particularly hard.

I want to close my remarks by also warning the residents who have been affected by these storms of the many scams that have already arisen.

As the then Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, along with Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, I led a bipartisan investigation into the response to Hurricane Katrina at the federal, state, and local levels.

We had done much better planning. In fact, our hospitals had returned to normal functioning.

We have expanded our efforts to improve emergency preparedness and response across the entire country, and we have emphasized the protection of the most vulnerable.

You shouldn't be exchanging business cards during a disaster.

We are learning how being prepared today can make the difference between safety and danger, and in many cases literally the difference between life and death.