On June 21, 2023, the Senate labor committee took up three bills: equal pay, seven paid sick days a year, and the right to organize. All three passed on a party-line 11-10 vote. Collins, a Republican on that committee, was on the losing side of every one, and backed amendments to weaken two of them.
Charles is running for governor of Maine on rooting out fraud, waste, and no-bid contracts. Maine Beacon found his own firm lobbied for MZM Inc., whose CEO pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman, while MZM held a no-bid Pentagon contract worth up to $250 million.
In June, Collins announced Piscataquis County commissioner Wayne Erkkinen as her town chair in Greenville, running grassroots outreach. The Anti-Defamation League named him in 2022 as one of 215 Mainers on the leaked Oath Keepers membership rolls.
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman gave $3 million to the super PAC boosting Susan Collins' reelection. He appears in the Epstein files. She voted to defeat the amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release them.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
On August 20 in Arundel, Charles told young Republicans he'd call Tom Homan and ask for ICE agents and marshals at Maine polling places. The same day, in Gorham, he told reporters he doesn't know Donald Trump and has never met him.
Collins' campaign email says a statewide tour takes 'quite literally fuel.' She voted against five straight attempts to end the Iran war before switching on the 60th day — and her husband holds up to $150,000 in ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
