When voters are read direct quotes from Platner’s since-deleted Reddit posts, he loses to Collins by double digits. And in a test of potential campaign messaging, a positive narrative about Platner that includes his life story as a veteran and oyster farmer and his apology for the posts fails to make up the gap.

Democrats' crushing defeat in 2020 looms over their deliberations about which candidate is best to run against the longtime GOP senator.

Nearly 50 protestors converged on the Portland offices of Republican Senator Susan Collins and Independent Angus King Monday in the wake of a tentative deal to end the government shutdown that doesn't include an extension of healthcare subsidies.

Monday afternoon about the funding package.She says it includes several year-long appropriations bills that include SNAP benefits which more than 170,000 Mainers rely on.“It’s absolutely essential that we end this harmful,

Maine's senior senator says she hopes a public commitment from the Republican majority leader to hold a vote on health care subsidies will be enough for Democrats to reopen the federal government.

Monday night the Senate voted 60-40 to advance a funding bill that will reopen the government and potentially end the longest shutdown in American history.

Senator Susan Collins has unveiled legislation containing a resolution that could reopen the government. That legislation is a package of bills to end the shutdown and restore vital

Mills was reportedly recruited by Democratic Senate leaders after her high-profile confrontation with President Trump in February, in which she told the president she'd "see you in court."

On Friday, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the bipartisan Comprehensive Alternative Response to Emergencies (CARE) Act. This bill would require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to test a five-year “treatment-in-place” model in which Medicare reimburses emergency medical service (EMS) providers when they treat a patient outside of the hospital,