Sam Patten, a Camden native who aided top-level campaigns in Maine and served as a power broker overseas, is ensnared in the special counsel’s probe.
Susan Collins
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Watch video: Sen. Collins ‘appalled’ by Trump’s tweet criticizing Kavanaugh accuser
The Maine senator said the president was ‘completely inappropriate’ in his tweets about Christine Blasey Ford on Friday morning.
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Maine Voices: Kavanaugh has misled the Senate in his testimony under oath
The question now is whether the reasonable mind of Sen. Susan Collins will guide her vote.
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Analysis: Republicans seem to have votes to move forward with Brett Kavanaugh
Susan Collins, a key vote, says the options available for Kavanaugh’s accuser to testify are sufficient, and she urges Christine Blasey Ford to speak Monday.
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Sen. Collins says attorneys for Kavanaugh and his accuser should be allowed to ask questions
Maine’s senior senator is still undecided on whether she will support President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as sexual assault allegations against him have disrupted the process
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Collins among handful of Republican senators calling for hearing on accusations against Kavanaugh
The hearing is announced just hours after she and several colleagues said the Supreme Court nominee and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, should testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh, sex assault accuser to testify publicly Monday
Senate Republicans delay a Judiciary Committee vote that had been planned for Thursday.
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Lawmakers consider delay of Kavanaugh vote until his accuser is heard
Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, urges the panel not to act immediately on the Supreme Court nominee.
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California professor, writer of confidential Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault
While his friend watched, she says, a teenage Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes.
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Jim Fossel: Sen. Collins’ record speaks for itself
The Maine Republican’s votes on Supreme Court nominees and other measures have been consistent and well-reasoned.