Honorable Susan Collins
United States Senator, Maine, Republican
Senator Collins was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. She served as a Legislative Aide to then Senator Bill Cohen (ME-R) from 1975 to 1987, as Maine Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation from 1987 to 1992, and as New England Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 1992 to 1993. She sits on the Appropriations Committee; the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; and the Select Committee on Intelligence. She chairs the Special Committee on Aging. The following is from the June 2, 2015, Senate floor debate on H.R. 2048, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015….
