Susan M. Collins
Republican · ME · U.S. Senate
Bio
Susan Margaret Collins is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator for Maine since 1997. A member of the Republican Party, she is Maine's longest-serving member of Congress and the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate. Collins has chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee since 2025.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.6 years
- First took office
- 1997 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 12 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 73
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Augusta, ME · 207-622-8414
- Bangor, ME · 207-945-0417
- Biddeford, ME · 207-283-1101
- Caribou, ME · 207-493-7873
- Lewiston, ME · 207-784-6969
- Portland, ME · 207-618-5560
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $4.2M – $10.1M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $3.7M – $9.8M
- Since 2018
- +$3.0M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Susan M. Collins's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Susan M. Collins (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Collinssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesEnergy and Water Development (Ex Officio)Financial Services and General GovernmentDepartment of Homeland Security (Ex Officio)Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (Ex Officio)Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (Ex Officio)Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Ex Officio)Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesDepartment of DefenseLegislative Branch (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Collins's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Republican Donors Fume Over Trump Putting Texas Senate Seat at RiskPresident Trump isn’t spending any campaign cash on close midterm election races, irking his fellow Republicans and putting contests like the Texas Senate seat in jeopardy. In July, Politico reports, Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC didn’t spend any of its $400 mi…
The New Republic · August 21, 2026
Senator Susan Collins Asks Supporters For Gas Money After Voting For The War That Made Gas ExpensiveGas prices are only such a salient issue because the president - who she's voted with 95% of the time - started a senseless war with Iran.
Jalopnik · August 20, 2026
Transcript: Trump Hits Brutal Poll Low as Dem Flip Shakes MAGA CountryThe following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 20 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Democrats a…
The New Republic · August 20, 2026
Pathetic Susan Collins Is Literally Begging For 5 Bucks In Gas MoneyPitiful, pathetic Susan Collins is begging her supporters to chip in as little as 5 measly bucks to help her get enough gas to "keep her team on the road," even though her husband holds thousands in stock in the oil and gas industries and she voted not once, …
Crooksandliars.com · August 19, 2026
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