America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
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.
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.
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.
The Bangor Daily News ran the numbers on 10,076 votes. Collins really has broken with her party on decisive votes more than any other senator of her era — and 72% of the time her deciding vote went to the Republicans. Under this Trump term, she's broken four times.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
More than 150 people gathered outside Collins' Biddeford office over her vote for $70 billion in new ICE funding. One of them was Alessia Gaspar Da Silva, whose husband has been in ICE custody for seven months.
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted for it anyway.
One Nation, the Senate GOP's dark money arm, runs at least six websites that look like local newspapers. They exist to flatter Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, Jon Husted, and Ashley Hinson — and voters are never told who is paying for them.
Elon Musk's America PAC has authorized up to $120 million across eight states, and Maine is on the target list. Updated August 14: the Senate Leadership Fund has committed $42 million of its own — though FEC filings show only $776,326 of it has actually been spent so far.
Trump's acting attorney general told a private prayer call he wants the Dobbs decision made permanent in all 50 states. Senate Republicans just voted to make him attorney general.
Collins says the Justice Department has become 'increasingly political.' She voted to confirm Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general in March 2025 — and she announced her no vote hours after the two Republicans with real leverage cut their deal and let him through committee.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
Collins cast the deciding vote to confirm Kavanaugh in 2018 on the assurance that Roe was 'settled law.' He voted to overturn it. Asked in Maine this summer whether she'd do it again, she said yes.
In June, Collins voted for $70 billion in ICE funding with no strings and against an amendment putting $300 million into body cameras and releasable footage. After an ICE agent killed a young father in Biddeford, she announced ICE would have cameras by the end of August — Maine first, 'at my request.'
Jay Clayton was asked repeatedly who won the 2020 election. He wouldn't answer. Collins voted yes anyway, and explained that the Director of National Intelligence 'does not certify elections.'
Nearly 5 million people have already lost their marketplace coverage and $900 billion is coming out of Medicaid. These Republicans voted for it — then told us it wasn't happening.
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
In February 2026, Trump bombed Iran without Congress's approval. These Republicans cheered it on, blocked every effort to stop it, and left us paying the price at the pump.
A new Susan Collins campaign ad brags that she protected Medicaid. It leaves out the procedural vote she cast to send Trump's Medicaid-cutting budget bill to the Senate floor — the vote a fellow Republican thanked her for.
Sen. Susan Collins helped pass the STOCK Act in 2012 to stop members of Congress from hiding their stock trades. A review found she failed to report up to $395,000 in trades — breaking the very law she championed.
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
