Susan Collins

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

96.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Susan Collins is a Republican Maine senator and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, widely respected as a centrist dealmaker serving her fifth term.

Susan Margaret Collins serves as the senior U.S. Senator from Maine and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee in the 119th Congress, the first Republican woman to hold this powerful post and the first Mainer to chair it in 92 years. First elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2002, 2008, 2014, and 2020, Collins is a Caribou native and St. Lawrence University graduate who worked on Senator William Cohen's staff, in the George H. W. Bush administration, and was Maine's 1994 gubernatorial nominee before entering the Senate. In addition to chairing Appropriations, she serves on HELP, Intelligence, and the Special Committee on Aging. Collins is widely regarded as one of the Senate's last true centrists, often casting pivotal votes on judicial nominations, healthcare, reproductive rights, LGBTQ protections, and maintaining a notable streak of consecutive roll-call votes spanning decades. She has prioritized rural healthcare, biomedical research funding, Bath Iron Works shipbuilding, and Maine's forest and fishing economies.