These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.

Siding with the majority Collins voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that stripped the right to a writ of habeas corpus and access to a lawyer for prisoners held of charges of terrorism by the U. C. (née McGuigan) and Donald F.

First elected to the Senate in 1996 Susan Collins is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.