(May 2010), Ban stock trading based on Congressional insider knowledge. (Apr 2001), Voted YES on Educational Savings Accounts. (Feb 2007), Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception. (Feb 2006), Voted YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (May 2001), Voted NO on increasing tax deductions for college tuition. (May 1999), Voted YES on deploying National Missile Defense ASAP. (Dec 2007), Overturn FCC approval of media consolidation. She later voted for her party’s tax bill that is the basis for the lawsuit against the law, though she has decried that challenge. (May 2008), Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies.

Fact-checkers have generally been skeptical of the Lancet study, though.

(Aug 2009), Voted NO on prohibiting eminent domain for use as parks or grazing land.

(Oct 2005), Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). Some women go beyond hectopolar. (Sep 2008), 1994: Lost race as first woman to run for Maine governor. (May 2009), Excess corporate pay rewards risk-taking over results.

(May 2007), Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR. (Feb 2013), Voted YES on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Feb 2011), Voted YES on cutting $221M in benefits to Filipinos who served in WWII US Army. (Mar 2009), Voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. The law, however, is still in jeopardy because of a 2017 Republican tax bill. She calls for more hospitals to be designated as “critical access,” which would allow them to be reimbursed for procedures at just above cost. (Feb 2002), Voted YES on banning campaign donations from unions & corporations. (May 2002), ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays. (Apr 2009), Voted YES on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. (Mar 2009), Double funding for low-income home weatherization programs. (Jan 2014), No justification for spying on Germany's chancellor. (Apr 2008), Terminate national emergency at the Southern border. (Jan 2009), Voted YES on overriding veto on expansion of Medicare.

(Oct 1999), Voted NO on allowing another round of military base closures. (Apr 2001), Voted YES on funding for National Endowment for the Arts. (Oct 2016), Voted NO on the Ryan Budget: Medicare choice, tax & spending cuts. (Apr 2011), Merge Alzheimers diagnosis and care benefit. (Jan 2001), Voted NO on establishing reserve funds & pre-funding for Social Security. (Jul 2000), Voted YES on confirming of Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court. (Sep 1998), Voted YES on authorizing states to collect Internet sales taxes. (Apr 2005), Voted YES on $86 billion for military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan. (May 2000), Voted YES on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority. (Jun 2007), Voted NO on eliminating the "Y" nonimmigrant guestworker program. (Sep 2006), Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (Nov 2013), Voted YES on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

(Sep 2000), Voted NO on expanding trade to the third world. (Jan 2015), Two-state solution despite Israeli settlements on West Bank. (May 2001), Voted YES on eliminating the 'marriage penalty'. (Apr 2008), Vigorous support for State of Israel against Hamas in Gaza. Broadly speaking, she supports a Medicare-like public option for individuals to buy government health insurance, but would not do away with private health insurance. (Jun 1998), Voted YES on Medicare means-testing. (Mar 2008), Voted NO on allowing tribal Indians to opt out of federal healthcare. (Apr 2008), Voted NO on requiring FISA court warrant to monitor US-to-foreign calls. (Sep 2005), Voted YES on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior. (Oct 2015), Outrageous for IRS to target Tea Party groups.

(Oct 2002), Voted YES on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo. (Feb 2014), Mass surveillance justified by national security. (May 2009), Voted YES on additional $825 billion for economic recovery package. (Jul 2001), Don't count combat pay against free school lunch. (Jun 2009), Expedited licensing for biosimilar products. (Sep 2001), Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China. Access to primary care also accounts for the lower mortality rate.

(May 2011) Voted YES on … (Sep 1997), Focus educational resources to help those with greatest need.

(Jun 2006), Voted NO on $47B for military by repealing capital gains tax cut. Susan M. Collins was born on Dec. 7, 1952, in Caribou, Maine, the northeasternmost U.S. city. (Feb 2008), Voted YES on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad. (Mar 2008), Voted YES on raising the Death Tax exemption to $5M from $1M. The last major piece of health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act, passed along party lines in 2010.

(May 2002), Support telemedicine for underserved areas. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! (Jun 1997), English immersion over bilingual education. More recently, Trump issued several executive actions on prescription drug prices, though the regulatory changes needed to implement those orders are still in the works, so individuals are unlikely to see any effect this year.

(Oct 1997), Voted YES on banning chemical weapons. (Click for details), Powered by Instant Web Page (Oct 2008), Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include Eastern Europe. The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case on that after the election. (Oct 2016) Voted NO on the Ryan Budget: Medicare choice, tax & spending cuts.

Collins has a mixed record on the health care law — she initially opposed it and voted repeatedly to repeal it, but sided with Democrats to block its repeal in 2017.