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Critical Insights — an independent polling firm in Portland, Maine — showed that she is leading Allen statewide 57% to 30%. Independent Senator [[Joe Lieberman]] has stated publicly that he plans to campaign for Senator Collins' reelection. Collins is currently the longest-serving Senator to have never missed a roll call vote.
Critical Insights — an independent polling firm in Portland, Maine — showed that she is leading Allen statewide 57% to 30%. Independent Senator [[Joe Lieberman]] has stated publicly that he plans to campaign for Senator Collins' reelection. Collins is currently the longest-serving Senator to have never missed a roll call vote.
==Committee Membership==
==Senate career==
Susan Collins voting record is moderate and has been consistently one of the most [[liberal]] Republicans in the senate. In the 1990s, Collins played an important role during the U.S. Senate's impeachment trial of [[Bill Clinton]] when she and fellow Maine Senator [[Olympia J. Snowe]] sponsored a motion that would have allowed the Senate to vote separately on the charges and the remedy. On May 23, 2005, Collins was one of fourteen moderate senators to forge a "compromise" on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster, thus allowing the Republican leadership's attempt to control debate without having to exercize the so-called "nuclear option". Under the agreement the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance", and the three Bush appellate court nominees (Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, and William Pryor) would receive a vote by the full Senate. Senator Collins is a member of The Republican Main Street Partnership and supports stem cell research. She is also a member of The Republican Majority For Choice, Republicans For Choice, The Wish List, Republicans for Environmental Protection, and It's My Party Too. Collins has a perfect attendance record, by not missing one vote since she was sworn in to the Senate in 1997.
===Committee Membership===
Senator Collins is Ranking Member and former Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and is the Senate’s chief oversight committee. She also serves on the Armed Services Committee and is a member of the Special Committee on Aging. Previously, she served for six years on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senator Collins was also the first freshman Senator ever to lead the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Senator Collins is Ranking Member and former Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and is the Senate’s chief oversight committee. She also serves on the Armed Services Committee and is a member of the Special Committee on Aging. Previously, she served for six years on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senator Collins was also the first freshman Senator ever to lead the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.