Their votes against the Senate’s Affordable Care Act repeal bill protected hospitals that are already under financial duress.
Susan Collins
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Maine Voices: Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because it’s God’s creation
Proposed oil drilling would have serious impacts on species of animals, birds – and the native people.
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Alan Caron: The nation needs Susan Collins
As Maine’s Republican senator decides whether to run for governor, she should take a hard look at the state of her party and at her influence in Washington.
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Collins must break with incompetent, erratic and dangerous president
She should show courage like Margaret Chase Smith and Bill Cohen in facing two potential disasters.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Key Obamacare subsidies must be maintained
Low-income Mainers could be hit hard if President Trump cuts payments that reduce out-of-pocket health care costs.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
LePage takes on George Mitchell in repeated critique of health care votes
The former Senate majority leader drew the governor’s ire by defending votes that U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King cast against Obamacare repeal.
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Collins: Trump ‘can’t set red lines’ for Justice Department probe of Russia ties
The Maine senator tells CNN that special counsel Robert Mueller should ‘follow leads wherever they may be.’
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Former Sen. Mitchell says LePage wrong to criticize Collins, King over ACA
He says the senators were representing the interests of Mainers by opposing the repeal, which he says would harm rural residents, the elderly and the poor.
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Jim Fossel: Voters should punish incivility
Politicians aren’t very good at holding each other to account.
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Cynthia Dill: In the end, the skinny just didn’t fit right
Size mattered in the health care showdown in Washington.