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'''Susan Margaret Collins''' (born December 7, 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is the junior U.S. Senator from [[Maine]] and a member of the [[Republican]] party. Serving in a [[liberal]] state, Collins is frequently labeled as a Republican in Name Only ([[RINO]]).  She often breaks with her party and voted with the [[Democrat]]s in support of [[partial-birth abortion]] and [[gay rights]].  

'''Susan Margaret Collins''', born December 7, 1952 (age {{age|1952|12|7}}), in Caribou, Maine, is the junior U.S. Senator from [[Maine]] and a member of the [[Republican]] party. Serving in a [[liberal]] state, Collins is frequently labeled as a Republican in Name Only ([[RINO]]).  She often breaks with her party and voted with the [[Democrat]]s in support of [[partial-birth abortion]] and [[gay rights]].  

While she voted with the majority of the [[Senate]] in favor of the 2002 "[[Iraq War]] Resolution" authorizing President [[George W. Bush]] to go to war against [[Iraq]], she cosponsored a non-binding resolution with three other [[liberal]] Republican Senators that showed the Senate's disapproval of the President's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq in January of 2007. Collins was reelected to a third term in the U.S. Senate in 2008.

While she voted with the majority of the [[Senate]] in favor of the 2002 "[[Iraq War]] Resolution" authorizing President [[George W. Bush]] to go to war against [[Iraq]], she cosponsored a non-binding resolution with three other [[liberal]] Republican Senators that showed the Senate's disapproval of the President's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq in January of 2007. Collins was reelected to a third term in the U.S. Senate in 2008.