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==Senate career==

==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 exercise 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.

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 exercise 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 supports allowing homosexuals to serve in the military and [[same-sex "marriage"]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/us/politics/19cong.html?pagewanted=all</ref><ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/susan-collins-supports-same-sex-marriage-108339.html</ref>

Collins supports allowing homosexuals to serve in the military and [[same-sex "marriage"]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/us/politics/19cong.html?pagewanted=all</ref><ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/susan-collins-supports-same-sex-marriage-108339.html</ref>