Maine
Sen. Susan Collins
- Has the third longest consecutive voting streak in Senate history, casting over 6,000 votes straight by September 2015.
- Ranked the most bipartisan senator in the 114th Congress by the Lugar Center. A poll released in 2015 reveled that Collins, with a 78% approval rating, had the highest approval rating of any sitting Republican US Senator.
- Worked from the ground up, growing her career from staff assistant to staff director for former Senator Bill Cohen, as well as holding several positions before running for the Senate, including Commissioner of the Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Director of the Small Business Administration’s regional office in Boston, and Massachusetts Deputy State Treasurer.