In 2025, Chesapeake Enterprises paid Collins's husband consulting fees. The firm's only lobbyist was Scott Reed, who runs the super PAC re-electing Collins and is at the center of the Navatek pay-to-play story. That same year Reed lobbied Congress for a data center developer whose billionaire chairman gave Collins $7,000.
In 2006, when House leaders were accused of ignoring warnings about Rep. Mark Foley and teenage pages, Bobby Charles wrote an op-ed defending Speaker Dennis Hastert's 'commitment to education and kids.' Hastert later admitted abusing boys he coached. Asked about it, Charles's campaign didn't address the op-ed.
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Susan Collins spent 2018 to 2020 pushing the Navy to hand tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to a defense contractor called Navatek.
ProPublica found Susan Collins' office pushed the Navy to hand Navatek millions while her campaign and super PAC took illegal money from its CEO. He later told the FBI she said, 'You've seen me deliver.' The FBI corruption squad that heard him was purged.
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Susan Collins has spent years telling voters she is a defender of abortion rights, but when it matters most, she keeps selling women out.
Matthew Byrne told an anti-abortion group his 'pro-life credentials cannot be questioned' and that the 'life of the mother' exception should be 'strictly defined so as to avoid creating loopholes.' The Senate cut off debate on his nomination 47-46 on September 14, with Collins voting yes. A no from her would have sunk it. She voted to confirm him the next day.
The Homeland Security inspector general found Florida's Everglades detention camp held 79 detainees in small metal enclosures with about 18 square feet of floor space. Byron Donalds called the camp a 'blueprint for other states' — and now calls investigating it 'busy work.'
A list of the Republicans who voted to block the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act went around X this week. We checked all 42 names against the official roll calls. Every one of them voted against the bill — and the record is worse than the list says.
America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
