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 chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and sits on the Armed Services Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. The following is from the March 6, 2006, Senate floor debate on S. 2349, the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act.Today the Senate begins consideration…
