Sen. Susan Collins

Friday's passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon for gender equality supporters, is quickly rippling through a hotly contested Maine U.S. Senate race already shaped by judicial appointments.

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Sara Gideon exchanged barbs Friday over health care, judicial appointments and President Donald Trump in the first debate of a race that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate next year.

Republicans fell far short of the sixty votes needed to put their $630 billion stimulus package before the Senate for consideration, and Maine’s two senators split on the issue.

The federal government plans to purchase and distribute hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine. But it faces challenges in storing doses.  Maine U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, raised the issue at a hearing of the Senate Health Committee.

Maine's U.S. senators both decried a move by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to no longer brief committees on election security issues. 

In a typical presidential election year, there are dozens of delegates and staffers from Maine that attend the Republican National Convention. This year, the state’s delegation consists of just six people, and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is not among them.

Former President George W. Bush on Friday backed Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in his first public endorsement of the 2020 election cycle.

Maine U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has joined with some other Republicans who are critical of changes the Trump administration has made to the mission and management of the Department of Homeland Security.

Puritan Medical Products in Guilford is receiving $51 million in federal funding from the CARES Act to boost production of swabs used for COVID-19 testing.