Susan Collins

I think we have to look at new models and new ways and what is going on at the local level and at the State level to see if we can stretch those dollars further and get better results.

That is why you argue for more flexibility at the local level in your initial statement.

The challenge is that the cost of renewing rental assistance continues to grow by hundreds of millions, if not billions, each year.

I am pleased to be joined today by our Ranking Member, Senator Jack Reed, as we begin our hearing examining whether there are more effective ways to meet the housing needs of vulnerable families and individuals.

We urge Congress to pass the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act, sponsored by Senator Maria Cantwell and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch.

I really am impressed with what you were able to accomplish in San Diego.

Congress is now providing roughly 50 percent of the annual capital needs for the public housing.

The ZIP code in which one is raised is a likely predictor on how one is going to do in life.

I am puzzled why there is not more acknowledgment of the carbon benefits of nuclear power.

That wage gap has implications for them, obviously, and their families, but I think it has implications for all of us.

Scheduled Social Security benefits are by themselves inadequate for too many Americans.

Women in our State, in Pennsylvania, earned 79.2 cents on the dollar.

I was so pleased to join Senator Conrad on this important bipartisan commission.

We miss him a lot, and we do miss those charts because Senators need charts to learn.

He lacks the temperament, the judgment and the self-restraint to be our president.

Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous.

I have a lot of concerns about Hillary Clinton and I am not going to support her.

If Republican values are important to you, if the history of the Republican Party is important to you, that you can't in good conscience vote for Donald Trump, that he's shown himself to be unfit and lacking in temperament and other lines…

Susan Collins is becoming the first Republican senator to say explicitly she will not vote for Donald Trump. She says Mr. Trump lacks the temperament, self-discipline and judgment required to be president.

Last month, the entire Maine congressional delegation sent you a letter regarding the VA's incredibly flawed administration of the Choice Program in our State.

Donald Trump was not my second choice. He was not my third choice. And I'm going to see what happens at the convention. It is going to be very important to me whom Donald Trump chooses as his running mate. And that is arguably the most…

Earlier today the Senate held a cloture vote on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2577, a bill that would fund military construction and veterans programs in fiscal year 2017 and provide $1.1 billion to respond to the Zika public…

This pilot will allow States to create their own assessments that can be imbedded with instruction and assess deeper knowledge.

During the reauthorization process, I worked with the junior Senator from Vermont and others to develop and improve an innovative assessment pilot program.

To me it's obvious in the law what is required, so I hope you'll take a look.