Susan Collins
Susan Collins
Susan Margaret Collinsis an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, Collins has served in the Senate since 1997, and has served as the Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging since 2015 and previously chaired the Senate Committee on Homeland Security from 2003 to 2007. She is considered one of the most moderate Republicans in office. She also is known for her long consecutive voting streak,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 December 1952
CountryUnited States of America
Once again, FEMA failed to adequately plan for the very type of disaster that occurs virtually every year.
I tend to think that FEMA should stay at DHS.
I have long believed that it would have been far more effective at this stage for FEMA to have given vouchers for housing and to assist people in finding private-sector housing. I think it still is a possibility.
FEMA is so disorganized that it's buying ice, trucking it all over the country and placing it as far as possible from the people who could use it.
FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy in which the American people have completely lost faith. There are many good people who work at FEMA. But they have lacked the leaders, the tools, the systems, and the budget to be effective.
If there was ever an agency in need of oversight, FEMA is it. It's a very big management job, and because of the nature of the work they do, they have only one chance to get it right.
My inclination is to say that FEMA does belong in the Department of Homeland Security.
FEMA is discredited, demoralized and dysfunctional. It is beyond repair. Just tweaking the organizational chart will not solve the problem.
He told me that he gives great weight to precedence, and that overturning precedence is - these are his words - 'a jolt to the judicial system,'
I remember leaving her office feeling so proud that she was my senator, and I also remember thinking that girls can grow up to be anything, ... What I remember most is her telling me to always stand tall for what I believed in.
In voting to acquit the president I do so with grave misgivings for I do not mean in any way to exonerate this man, ... He lied under oath, he sought to interfere with the evidence, he tried to influence the testimony of key witnesses. And while it may not be a crime, the president exploited a very young star-stuck employee whom he then proceeded to smear in an attempt to destroy her credibility, her reputation and her life.
He was unambiguous in his message to us,
That money meets urgent infrastructure needs in the state of Maine. I don't think it makes sense to take money that is needed in other states and reallocate it to Katrina.
Rudy Giuliani didn't come from an emergency preparedness background, but he did an extraordinary job, ... So (past experience) is not necessarily a predictor.