The names on Maine's Senate ballot, with a separate link to declared write-ins.
The Stated Record analysis: Toss-up
Updated September 3, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
Susan M. CollinsRepublican
Troy D. JacksonDemocratic
Declared write-ins are listed separately by the election authority.
Source: Maine Secretary of State
Checked September 2, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
Maine's senior U.S. senator, a Republican; Congress.gov records her in every Congress since January 1997. She is seeking a sixth term. Congress.gov, Collins for Senator
Her campaign says she chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and also sits on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Collins for Senator
Before the Senate, her campaign says, she worked for Representative and later Senator Bill Cohen, was Maine's Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation, and ran the Small Business Administration's regional office. Collins for Senator
What they say they want to do
Health care that is more affordable and accessible for families, seniors and people in rural Maine. Collins for Senator
A $35 monthly cap on insulin for people with private or employer insurance, through the INSULIN Act. Collins for Senator
Wider access to workforce training, so Mainers can secure good-paying jobs. Collins for Senator
Keeping Maine's seat at the head of the Appropriations Committee, which her campaign calls an influential seat at the table. Collins for Senator
Keeping the government funded, including the Department of Homeland Security, in the words of her campaign's spokesman. Collins for Senator
What the official record shows
Voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, 76 to 20; it became Public Law 118-273 on January 5, 2025. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov
Voted Nay on Senate passage of H.R. 1, the 2025 reconciliation act, which passed 51 to 50 on the Vice President's vote and became Public Law 119-21. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov
Voted Yea on Senate passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, 71 to 29; it became Public Law 119-75 on February 3, 2026. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov
Cast her 10,000th consecutive roll-call vote, which the majority and minority leaders marked on the floor; she voted Yea on Roll Call 147, the vote the minority leader said would be her 10,000th. U.S. Government Publishing Office
Introduced the Reproductive Choice Act with Lisa Murkowski, to write the core holdings of Roe v. Wade and Casey into federal law. In 2023 she joined Tim Kaine, Murkowski and Kyrsten Sinema on the Reproductive Freedom for All Act. Neither bill got past committee. Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 10 committees
$4,281,989
Corporation PACs 99 committees
$386,200
Leadership PACs 39 committees
$330,500
Trade Association PACs 45 committees
$212,000
PAC - Qualified 20 committees
$108,100
Party committees 1 committee
$62,000
Membership Organization PACs 17 committees
$57,750
Committees the FEC records no type for 12 committees
Receipts from political committees on lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees) of her committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the giving committee. The party row is line 11B, $62,000.00 from one committee. The joint fundraising row is $4,281,989.20 reported on line 12 from ten committees; the other rows, $1,201,550.00, are line 11C. Each line's itemized rows sum to the committee's own summary total for that line to the cent, and the table totals $5,545,539.20. Memo entries are left out because they restate money counted elsewhere: 2,312 on line 12 itemize what the joint fundraising committees passed on, and 5 on line 11C. Not in the table: contributions from individuals, including any made through WinRed or ActBlue, which are individual contributions and not committee money. The rows sum to 5,545,539.20 dollars.
His campaign says he spent twenty years in the legislature, six of them as Senate President. Troy Jackson for Maine
The Secretary of State received his nomination as the Democratic replacement candidate on July 27, 2026, after Graham C. Platner withdrew on July 10 following the June primary. His campaign says he secured the nomination at the party's convention the Saturday before. Maine Secretary of State, Troy Jackson for Maine
His campaign describes him as a logger from Allagash, the son and grandson of loggers, with an associate's degree from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Troy Jackson for Maine
Higher taxes on billionaires and on corporations, which his campaign says should pay their fair share, and tax cuts for the working class. Troy Jackson for Maine
A federal right to abortion, civil rights legislation protecting the LGBTQ+ community, and protection of the right to vote and organize. Troy Jackson for Maine
Dismantling and abolishing ICE; and ending what his campaign calls the genocide in Gaza, with no U.S. tax dollars for Israel's military. Troy Jackson for Maine
A ban on members of Congress trading stock, and overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics. Troy Jackson for Maine
Voted Yea as the Senate enacted the 2021 state budget 32 to 2; its Part OOOO carried the universal school meals sections of his own bill, LD 1679, word for word except one corrected program name. Maine Legislature, Maine Legislature, Maine Legislature
Voted Yea as the Senate enacted LD 1619, the reproductive privacy law of which he was the first-named cosponsor, 20 to 11. Maine Legislature, Maine Legislature
There is no money table because there is no report of receipts yet. His committee registered with the Federal Election Commission on July 7, 2026, after the second-quarter reporting period had closed, and has filed only statements of organization since. Its first report, the October Quarterly covering the period through September 30, is due October 15, 2026. Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission
Former President of the Maine Senate, and the Democratic nominee: on July 27, 2026 the Secretary of State received his nomination to replace the primary winner, who had withdrawn on July 10.
Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each link was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise. Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.
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Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
Her campaign says making health care more affordable and accessible for families, seniors and people in rural Maine is one of her priorities. In a July op-ed she backs the INSULIN Act, which would cap insulin at $35 a month for people with private or employer insurance.
Her campaign presents the Social Security Fairness Act as her work and calls her the leader in the Senate for Social Security. The campaign pages reviewed set out no plan for the program's finances or benefit levels.
In a Bangor Daily News op-ed his campaign republished, he proposes scrapping the cap on earnings subject to the Social Security tax and increasing benefits, and says he will never support raising the retirement age or privatizing the program.
Her campaign site states no position on abortion; its pages and 213 posts were searched. In the Senate, in 2022, she introduced the Reproductive Choice Act with Lisa Murkowski, saying it would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade and Casey. In 2023 she was one of four senators who introduced the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, with the same aim.
His campaign's priorities include passing a federal right to abortion. He says that in the Maine Senate he helped pass some of the strongest protections for abortion access in the country.
Her campaign says she has fought to expand access to workforce training so Mainers can secure good-paying jobs, and that as Appropriations chairman she has secured federal money for workforce programs. It states no position on tax rates.
His campaign's priorities include taxing billionaires, making corporations pay what it calls their fair share, and tax cuts for the working class. At a Labor Day event he said every full-time worker should have guaranteed paid time off.
Her campaign's spokesman defended her vote to keep the Department of Homeland Security operating and called for leaders focused on keeping government funded and standing behind the officers who protect the country. The campaign pages reviewed state no broader immigration position.
No position on campaign finance, dark money or congressional stock trading was found on her campaign site: the Home, About, Track Record, FAQ and Get the Facts pages and the site's 213 posts were searched.
His campaign's priorities include banning members of Congress from trading stock and overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics. His campaign says he is not backed by corporate PACs or billionaire donors.
The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record, and a card never says why someone did something.
Her campaign calls her the author of the Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law in 2025, and says more than 25,000 Mainers have since had their earned benefits restored.
“As the author of the Social Security Fairness Act which was signed into law in 2025, Susan is the leader in the Senate for Social Security.”
The Act was introduced in the Senate in every Congress from 2003 to 2023, and the text of every version as introduced names her: first after the sponsor in ten of those eleven Congresses, on Dianne Feinstein's bills of 2003 to 2009, John Kerry's of 2011 and Sherrod Brown's of 2015 to 2023, and third on Mark Begich's of 2013. Before that, in November 2001, she was the first senator to cosponsor Feinstein's 2001 version, S. 1523. The Congressional Record of February 11, 2003 prints her saying she was pleased to join Feinstein in introducing it. No version names her as sponsor. The measure that became law was the House bill, H.R. 82, sponsored by Representative Garret Graves; in the Senate debate she thanked Brown for his leadership and said they had championed the bill together for several years. She voted Yea when the Senate passed it 76 to 20 in the sitting that began December 20, 2024 (Roll Call 338), and it became Public Law 118-273 on January 5, 2025.
Limit: The label reads author as the record shows her role: for twenty years she introduced the bill beside its sponsor, which is a co-author's part. The record does not make her its only author. Each Senate version was another senator's bill, and the one that became law was the House's. Her campaign's FAQ lists the Act among legislation she authored or co-authored, which is the closer description. The figure of 25,000 Mainers is the Social Security Administration's to publish and is not checked here.
Her campaign says she was the author of the Paycheck Protection Program, and that the program saved and protected more than 250,000 jobs in Maine.
“She was the author of the bipartisan Paycheck Protection Program that provided forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic, saving and protecting more than 250,000 jobs in Maine.”
The program was created by section 1102 of the CARES Act, Public Law 116-136, which the Senate passed 96 to 0 on March 25, 2020 and which was signed on March 27. Its forerunner, small business loans that could be forgiven, was in S. 3548, the Senate Republican bill Mitch McConnell introduced for himself and six committee chairmen; Collins is not among them. The Congressional Record names her as one of its authors. In June 2020 the majority leader called Marco Rubio and Collins the program's chief architects and thanked them for authoring it, and in April Ben Cardin said it was negotiated by Rubio, Collins, Jeanne Shaheen and himself. In September 2020 she sponsored S. 4773, the Continuing the Paycheck Protection Program Act.
Limit: The Record makes her one of the program's authors, not its only one: the majority leader names Rubio beside her, and Cardin names four senators who negotiated it. Those are colleagues' statements on the floor, not a drafting record; no committee document assigning the drafting was found. The jobs figure rests on Small Business Administration loan data this desk did not read.
The Congressional Record for June 4, 2026 prints the majority leader and the minority leader marking her 10,000th consecutive roll-call vote that day, and the Democratic whip calling her the first senator in the country's history to reach it. The Record prints 27 roll calls for that day, votes 137 to 163, held from 10:30 a.m. to 4:42 a.m. the next morning. The Senate's own vote records list her voting Yea or Nay on every one, Yea on Roll Call 147, the vote after the tribute.
Limit: The number 10,000 is the party leaders' statement on the Senate floor, printed in the official Record, not a count this desk made; counting it would mean reading every Senate roll call since January 1997. Nothing read for this desk shows a missed vote. Her campaign's home page still gives an older figure, more than 9,800.
In a July op-ed she says that as Appropriations chair she secured a record $200 million for the Special Diabetes Program in this year's funding legislation.
“Earlier this year, as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I secured a record $200 million for the National Institutes of Health’s Special Diabetes Program in this year’s funding legislation.”
Section 6402 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, Public Law 119-75, signed February 3, 2026, sets the Special Diabetes Program for Type 1 diabetes at $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2026, against $159,228,188 for 2025 and $155,619,196 for 2024. The program's schedule in the U.S. Code has no year before 2024 above $150,000,000, so $200 million is the largest annual amount it has had. She voted Yea when the Senate passed the act 71 to 29 on January 30 (Roll Call 20). Her own reauthorization bill, S. 2211, introduced in July 2025, had asked for $160,000,000 a year.
Limit: The amount, the year and the word record are borne out by the law. "I secured" is a claim about her part in writing it, which no roll call settles: she chaired the committee that produced the year's spending bills and voted for the package, and the enacted amount is larger than her own bill asked for, but the health extensions in it are authorizing provisions that other committees also shaped.
She introduced S. 830, the Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2025, with Tammy Baldwin on March 4, 2025. The bill went no further than committee, but both of its operative changes became law as section 6506 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, signed February 3, 2026: the definition of a family caregiver changes from an unpaid adult to an unpaid individual, in the same words, and the program's funding runs through 2030, for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 rather than the 2025 through 2030 her bill proposed.
Limit: What became law is her bill's text inside a larger act, not the stand-alone Act the campaign names, and its funding starts a year later than she proposed. It is the same provision, so the claim holds in substance. The dollar amounts the program receives are set elsewhere and were not compared.
In a July op-ed she says she joined three Senate colleagues this spring to introduce the INSULIN Act, and that it passed the Senate health committee by a bipartisan vote of 17 to 5.
“Stories like Bek’s are why I joined three Senate colleagues this spring to introduce the bipartisan INSULIN Act.”
S. 4189, the INSULIN Act of 2026, was introduced on March 25, 2026 by Jeanne Shaheen for herself, Collins, Raphael Warnock and John Kennedy, with eight more original cosponsors; Collins is named first. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee ordered it reported with a substitute on July 22, 2026; the committee's own record of that session lists it as agreed to by roll call vote, 17 to 5. It was placed on the Senate calendar on August 7. The reported text keeps a cap of $35 per 30-day supply for private and employer coverage. It has not passed the Senate.
Limit: The introduction, the committee's approval and its 17-to-5 tally are on the record, and Congress.gov lists Shaheen as the sponsor, which is what "joined three Senate colleagues" says. The committee's page does not list each senator's vote, but the tally shows both parties voted yes: neither party has 17 seats on the committee (the Senate's roster lists 12 Republicans and 11 Democrats). A bill reported from committee is not law.
In May 2021, as Senate President, he sponsored LD 1679, a bill requiring schools to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to students who do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals, with the state paying the difference. Its operative sections were enacted in the same words, with one program name corrected, as Part OOOO of the state budget, Public Law 2021, chapter 398, which the Senate enacted 32 to 2 on June 30, 2021 with his Yea vote; the Governor signed it on July 1. The Maine statutes credit the universal-meals paragraphs to that Part, which also created a Meals for Students Fund to pay the state's share. LD 1679 itself was later rewritten and enacted in 2022 as a narrower law on online meal applications.
Limit: It did not pass as his bill: the law is a Part of the budget, which 32 senators voted for. What ties it to him is the text, which is his bill's with one program name corrected, and his vote. The match between the two documents was read by hand and checked again by a word-level comparison, because both are published only as PDFs. The requirement has been amended since and applies to schools that take part in the federal school meal programs.
In an op-ed his campaign republished, he says that as Senate President he sponsored one of the strongest abortion protection laws in the country, which removed criminal penalties and left care to doctors' medical judgment.
“I sponsored one of the strongest abortion protection laws in the country, which stripped away criminal penalties targeting abortion care and protected the ability of doctors to provide care based on their medical judgment”
The law is LD 1619, An Act to Improve Maine's Reproductive Privacy Laws, a Governor's bill presented by Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross, who is its sponsor of record. He was its first-named cosponsor. He voted Yea when the Senate enacted it 20 to 11 on July 6, 2023 (Roll Call 483), and it became Public Law 2023, chapter 416 on July 19. The law repealed both criminal provisions in the abortion statute, the Class C crime for an unlicensed person performing an abortion and the section on criminal liability after viability, and allows an abortion after viability when a licensed physician judges it necessary.
Limit: The Legislature lists the Speaker as the sponsor and Jackson as a cosponsor. Whether it is one of the strongest such laws in the country is a comparison no official record makes.
Maine's paid family and medical leave program was enacted in the 2023 state budget, as Part AAA of Public Law 2023, chapter 412. The Senate enacted the budget 22 to 9 on July 6, 2023 (Roll Call 484) with his Yea vote, and the Governor signed it on July 11. The Maine statutes credit the program's provisions to that Part. The stand-alone bill on the subject, LD 1964, sponsored by Senator Matthea Daughtry, died when the Legislature adjourned.
Limit: "We" fits how it passed: as one Part of a budget that 22 senators voted for, not as a bill of his. The record shows his vote and the enactment. What the program pays and when benefits began are set in the statute and were not checked here.
In 2019, as Senate President, he sponsored two prescription-drug bills that became law: LD 1499, which created the Maine Prescription Drug Affordability Board, and LD 1272, An Act To Increase Access to Low-cost Prescription Drugs. The Senate accepted the committee's majority report on each 35 to 0 on June 11, 2019, with his Yea vote (Roll Calls 264 and 263), and later enacted both without a recorded vote; the House enacted them 126 to 15 and 138 to 3. Both were signed on June 24, 2019, as Public Law 2019, chapters 471 and 472. In 2021 he sponsored LD 1117, An Act To Prevent Excessive Prices for Prescription Drugs. Both chambers passed it, the Governor vetoed it, and the Senate's override vote, 20 to 14 with his Yea, fell short of the 23 votes needed (Roll Call 506). In 2024 his LD 2114 became a resolve, Resolve 2024, chapter 177, directing the Superintendent of Insurance to collect data on how insurers cover generic drugs and biosimilars and to report to the Legislature.
The claim is that prices came down, and no official source read for this desk publishes that figure. The laws set up a board and a program; the record shows them enacted, not what they changed at the pharmacy counter. The next test is the Prescription Drug Affordability Board's annual reports to the Legislature.
His principal campaign committee, Troy Jackson for Maine, first filed with the Federal Election Commission on July 7, 2026. It has filed eleven statements of organization in all, the latest on September 8 naming seven committees it is affiliated with or raises money through jointly, and no report of receipts. Its first report, the October Quarterly covering the period through September 30, is due October 15, 2026. Other committees' own reports already list contributions to it: from July 13 to August 28, the political action committees of 15 labor organizations, among them AFSCME, the Steelworkers and the Machinists, and the PACs of the American Association for Justice and J Street. In the FEC's processed data read on September 25, none of the committees giving to him is classified as a corporation's or a trade association's PAC.
The record that would settle the claim is his own committee's report of receipts, which does not exist yet. Other committees' reports cover only part of it: committees that file quarterly have not yet reported July to September, and the FEC processes filings some weeks after they arrive. What they show so far is a partial record. No filing will label a donor a billionaire; itemized contributions show names, employers and amounts.
Limit: This card is waiting for his committee's own filing, not judging the claim. When the October Quarterly arrives, lines 11C and 12 will show committee money, including anything passed on by joint fundraising committees. Other committees' reports also list $124,911.25 that a PAC called Maximum Impac transferred to him as nominee funds; who gave that money to it was not read. His campaign's statement that he raised $2 million from more than 30,000 new donors after the nomination can be checked against the same report.
On the Senate floor on March 12, 2026, nearly a month into the lapse in Homeland Security funding, she urged the Senate to take up the department's funding bill and said defunding ICE and Customs and Border Protection is not a serious policy solution.
“Now, while defunding ICE and CBP may resonate well with far-left activists, it is not a serious public policy solution.”
She voted Yea on all seven motions to take up H.R. 7147, the Homeland Security funding bill, from February 12 to March 26, 2026 (Roll Calls 38, 39, 47, 54, 59, 71 and 74). Each fell short of the 60 votes needed. The version the Senate then passed by voice vote became law on April 30 and set funding in the bill for ICE, and for CBP's border security operations, at zero. On June 5 she voted Yea on S. 2, the Secure America Act, which passed 52 to 47 and became law on June 10. It gives ICE another $38.5 billion, including $7.45 billion for Homeland Security Investigations, and CBP another $26 billion, available through September 2029.
Limit: The seven votes were on starting debate, and the Senate passed the bill without a recorded vote. She also voted for Bernie Sanders's failed amendment on January 30 to take back some ICE money and undo Medicaid changes, and on June 5 to waive budget rules for Dick Durbin's failed amendment to move some ICE money to DACA applications.
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Campaign finance
FEC snapshot through Jun 30, 2026
Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.
Susan M. Collins: July Quarterly 2026, coverage May 21, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026, received Jul 15, 2026, file 1996672, image 202607159875988916.
Retrieved from OpenFEC on Sep 23, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.
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Chronology
How the field took shape
Maine Senate enacts the 2021 budget
The budget carried Jackson's universal school meals bill as Part OOOO, word for word except one corrected program name. Jackson voted Yea; it passed 32 to 2.
Collins voted Yea on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, which carried her respite care bill's text and set the Special Diabetes Program at $200 million.
The Secretary of State received his nomination as the Democratic replacement candidate on July 27, 2026. His campaign says the party's convention chose him the Saturday before.
The Secretary of State's general election candidate list, and its withdrawal and replacement list updated September 22, show Susan M. Collins and Troy D. Jackson for U.S. Senate. Declared write-ins are listed separately.
Maine Secretary of State. Lists Graham C. Platner, Democrat, withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race on July 10, 2026, and Troy D. Jackson of Allagash as the replacement candidate, received July 27, 2026. Read as a PDF (sha256 c2198174...2d92c).
Maine Secretary of State. Spreadsheet listing Susan M. Collins and Troy D. Jackson for U.S. Senate. Linked from the Secretary of State's upcoming-elections page, reviewed September 23, 2026. Read by hand; the verifier cannot read spreadsheets (sha256 c628e48f...03ea).
Congress.gov. Read through the Congress.gov API: Republican senator for Maine in every Congress from the 105th (1997) to the 119th. Also the source of her sponsored-legislation list, 1,208 items, which holds no Social Security Fairness Act of her own.
Collins for Senator. Campaign-controlled source; "Paid for by Collins for Senator". The committee's FEC record gives this site. Its roll-call figure, more than 9,800, is older than the 10,000 her FAQ and About pages give. The site's 17 pages and 213 posts (February 2025 to September 2026) were read through its public WordPress interface; most posts are reposted news and letters, which are not her statements.
Collins for Senator. Campaign-controlled source and the fullest statement of the record she runs on: workforce, health care, Alzheimer's, diabetes, Social Security and congressionally directed spending.
Collins for Senator. Campaign-controlled source. Names her committees, her bid for a sixth term, legislation she says she authored or co-authored, and her roll-call streak.
Collins for Senator. Statement by the campaign's spokesman, April 26, 2026. It is the campaign's only statement on homeland security funding the desk found.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record for the sitting that began December 20, 2024; the vote was taken after midnight, on December 21. Passed 76 to 20. Read with the shared collector, which checks the printed names against the block headers and the announced tally.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Printed in the Record of the June 30, 2025 legislative day; Congress.gov dates the vote July 1, 2025. 50 to 50, with the Vice President voting to pass it. Read with the shared collector.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record of June 4, 2026. Prints the majority leader, minority leader and Democratic whip marking her 10,000th consecutive roll-call vote, and 27 roll calls. The shared collector read 26 of them against the Record's own tallies and refused one, vote 160, whose NAYS header says 53 while 55 names are printed; she is recorded voting in all 26 it read, Yea on Roll Call 147, the vote after the tribute. The Senate's own record of vote 160 lists her Nay (see senate-gov-votes-2026-06-04).
U.S. Senate. The Senate's own vote records (one XML file per vote, vote_119_2_00137.xml to vote_119_2_00163.xml), read September 23, 2026. The 27 votes printed in the June 4 Record ran from 10:30 a.m. on June 4 to 4:42 a.m. on June 5; each lists Collins (R-ME) as voting Yea or Nay. Vote 160, which the Record's printed tally could not be read against, lists her Nay.
Congress.gov. Introduced by Dianne Feinstein alone on October 10, 2001 and referred to Finance. Collins is the first of 14 cosponsors, joining November 7, 2001; none was an original cosponsor.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Dianne Feinstein, introduced February 11, 2003. Introduced text: "Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Ms. Collins, ..."; Collins is the first of 30 cosponsors, an original one.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Dianne Feinstein, introduced February 25, 2009, "for herself, Ms. Collins, ..."; Collins first of 31 cosponsors, an original one.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Mark Begich, introduced May 8, 2013 "for himself, Mr. Heller, Ms. Warren, and Ms. Collins"; Collins third of three original cosponsors.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record of February 11, 2003. Prints S. 349 introduced "By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Ms. Collins, ..." and Collins's statement that she is "pleased to join with my colleague from California, Senator Feinstein, in introducing the Social Security Fairness Act".
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record of December 18, 2024. Collins speaks in support of H.R. 82, thanks Senator Brown for his leadership and says "We have championed this bill together for several years." Her own account, printed in the official Record.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Sherrod Brown; Collins first among 62 cosponsors, an original one, and first named in the introduced text ("Mr. Brown (for himself, Ms. Collins, ...").
Congress.gov. Signed February 3, 2026. The enrolled text (GovInfo BILLS-119hr7148enr) was read for sections 6402, the special diabetes programs, and 6506, lifespan respite care.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. The program's appropriation schedule from its start: $30,000,000 transferred a year for 1998 to 2002, plus $70,000,000 appropriated a year for 2001 and 2002, $100,000,000 for 2003, $150,000,000 a year for 2004 to 2023, and short-term amounts after.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Collins, with Jeanne Shaheen; introduced July 8, 2025 and referred to committee. Proposed $160,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Collins, with Tammy Baldwin; introduced March 4, 2025 and referred to committee. Its two operative changes were compared with section 6506 of Public Law 119-75.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Jeanne Shaheen; Collins first of eleven original cosponsors. Ordered reported by the HELP Committee with a substitute on July 22, 2026; placed on the calendar August 7. The reported text (GovInfo BILLS-119s4189rs) keeps a $35 cap per 30-day supply.
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The committee's own page for the July 22, 2026 executive session lists "S. 4189, INSULIN Act of 2026 (Agreed to by Roll Call Vote, 17-5)", a manager's amendment agreed to by voice vote, and a Baldwin amendment agreed to 12 to 10. It does not list how each senator voted.
United States Senate. The Senate's membership file, read September 23, 2026: 23 members, 12 Republicans and 11 Democrats. A 17-vote yes needs members of both parties under any split in which neither party holds 17 seats.
Congress.gov. Introduced February 9, 2023 by Tim Kaine for himself, Lisa Murkowski, Kyrsten Sinema and Collins; referred to the Judiciary Committee and not acted on.
Congress.gov. Introduced February 28, 2022 by Collins, with Lisa Murkowski as the only cosponsor; referred to the Judiciary Committee and not acted on. Its title: to codify the essential holdings of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. That August she was also an original cosponsor of Tim Kaine's S. 4688, the first Reproductive Freedom for All Act.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Her floor statement introducing S. 3713. She says it would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade and Casey, and that the Women's Health Protection Act then before the Senate went further than that.
Congress.gov. The Senate Republican bill introduced March 19, 2020 by Mitch McConnell for himself and six committee chairmen: Alexander, Crapo, Grassley, Rubio, Shelby and Wicker. Collins is not among them.
Congress.gov. Passed the Senate 96 to 0 on March 25, 2020 (Record Vote 80) and became Public Law 116-136 on March 27, both from Congress.gov's action list. The Record prints vote 80 without name blocks, so the shared collector cannot read it; the tally is Congress.gov's.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record of June 3, 2020. Mitch McConnell: "Thanks especially to its chief architects, Senator Rubio and Senator Collins" and "I want to thank Senator Collins and Senator Rubio once more for their leadership in authoring this historic program in the first place."
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record of April 9, 2020. Ben Cardin, the senator from Maryland: "The Paycheck Protection Program was negotiated in good faith by Senator Rubio, Senator Collins, Senator Shaheen, and myself".
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, covering May 21 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026, read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 as the most recent report. With the pre-primary report for April 1 to May 20 ($1,701,742.11), second-quarter receipts come to $5,706,523.78, which matches the $5.7 million her campaign announced.
Federal Election Commission. Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on September 23, 2026: 1 row on line 11B, 404 on line 11C and 2,370 on line 12 for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, each line reconciled to the committee's summary total to the cent. No individual contribution was read.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of candidate S6ME00159, registered since 1996; its FEC record gives the website WWW.SUSANCOLLINS.COM.
Troy Jackson for Maine. Campaign-controlled source; "Paid for by Troy Jackson for Maine". The committee's FEC record gives no website; troyjackson.org redirects here, while troyjackson.com is an unrelated real-estate agent. Its home, About, Priorities, Endorsements and News pages and all 59 news posts were read on September 23, 2026.
Troy Jackson for Maine. Campaign-controlled source and his fullest statement of his legislative record. It says he "championed and passed some of the strongest reproductive health protections anywhere in the country".
Troy Jackson for Maine. Campaign release that reprints highlights of his op-ed "What Listening to Women Taught Me About Reproductive Freedom", in the first person. The release's date on the site is September 4, 2026; the op-ed's own date was not read.
Troy Jackson for Maine. Campaign release that collects news coverage; the paid-leave sentences are his words as quoted by News Center Maine and republished by the campaign.
Troy Jackson for Maine. Campaign release of July 27, 2026, a Monday. It says he secured the nomination at "Saturday's Maine Democratic Party convention". Its fundraising figures cannot be checked until the committee files its first report.
Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library. The Legislature's law library lists Troy Dale Jackson of Allagash, Democrat, as President for 2019-2024, followed by Matthea Daughtry from 2025. Its Legislature column for his row reads 128th - 131st, which does not match those years (the 129th Legislature began in December 2018); the years are what this desk relies on. The Legislature's bill summary pages show a legislator's latest title, not the title when a bill was filed, so they cannot date his presidency.
Maine Legislature. Sponsored by Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross; President Troy Jackson of Aroostook among the cosponsors. The bill as printed (a PDF, sha256 a45434c3...72e86) reads "Presented by Speaker TALBOT ROSS of Portland. (GOVERNOR'S BILL) Cosponsored by President JACKSON of Aroostook and" the rest, so he is the first-named cosponsor.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes, Maine Legislature. The statute as amended. Its history credits chapter 416 with repealing subsection 3, paragraph B (the Class C crime for an unlicensed person performing an abortion) and subsection 4 (criminal liability after viability), and with the physician's-judgment standard after viability.
Maine Legislature. Sponsored by President Troy Jackson. The bill as printed in May 2021 (a PDF, sha256 849c2bed...e1f364f) proposed the universal breakfast and lunch paragraphs; after amendment it was enacted on May 3, 2022 as Public Law 2021, chapter 719, a narrower law on online meal applications and a study (PDF, sha256 59e4a009...b3336).
Maine Legislature. Signed July 1, 2021. Part OOOO, on page 259 of the chaptered PDF (sha256 a9824f64...5687), carries sections 1 to 5 of LD 1679 as introduced, word for word, with one correction: its paragraph I names the National School Lunch Program where the bill had repeated the School Breakfast Program. Part OOOO adds sections 6 to 8, which LD 1679 did not have: the Meals for Students Fund and a transfer from the 2020-21 year-end surplus. Compared by hand and again by a word-level diff of the two PDFs' text; the verifier cannot read PDFs.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes, Maine Legislature. The statute's history credits the paragraphs requiring breakfast and lunch at no cost to students ineligible for free or reduced-price meals to Public Law 2021, chapter 398, Part OOOO. The paragraphs have been amended since.
Maine Legislature. The 2023 budget: enacted by the Senate on Roll Call 484, 22 to 9, on July 6, 2023; signed July 11, 2023 as Public Law 2023, chapter 412.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes, Maine Legislature. The program's definitions section; its history credits it to Public Law 2023, chapter 412, Part AAA, section 7.
Maine Legislature. The stand-alone bill, sponsored by Matthea Daughtry, then a senator; the summary page gives her later title, President. It passed the House but was left in the Senate's possession at adjournment and died.
Maine Legislature. Sponsored by President Troy Jackson. House enactment 126 to 15 (Roll Call 244); Senate enactment without a recorded vote, after the Senate accepted the committee's majority report 35 to 0 on Roll Call 264; signed June 24, 2019, Public Law 2019, chapter 471.
Maine Legislature. June 11, 2019. Prevailed 35 to 0; Jackson of Aroostook recorded Y. The bill's roll-call list shows this as the only Senate roll call on LD 1499.
Maine Legislature. June 11, 2019. Prevailed 35 to 0; Jackson of Aroostook recorded Y. The bill's roll-call list shows this as the only Senate roll call on LD 1272.
Maine Legislature. Sponsored by President Troy Jackson. House enactment 138 to 3 (Roll Call 243); Senate enactment without a recorded vote, after the Senate accepted the committee's majority report 35 to 0 on Roll Call 263; signed June 24, 2019, Public Law 2019, chapter 472.
Maine Legislature. Sponsored by President Troy Jackson. Enacted by the House and the Senate on June 17, 2021 (actions page, dockets.asp?ID=280079688); vetoed; on July 19, 2021 the Senate voted 20 to 14 to override, short of two-thirds, and the veto was sustained.
Maine Legislature. Sponsored by President Troy Jackson. Finally passed by both chambers without a roll call; signed April 22, 2024 as Resolve 2024, chapter 177.
Maine Legislature. Directs the Superintendent of Insurance to request data from health insurers on how they cover generic drugs and biosimilars, and to report to the Legislature by February 15, 2025. Read as a PDF (sha256 42b1bc9b...5b16).
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of candidate S6ME00464, first filed July 7, 2026. As of September 23, 2026 it had filed eleven statements of organization and no report of receipts and disbursements; OpenFEC returns no financial totals for it.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC's processed Schedule B data on September 23, 2026 and again on September 25, 2026, by the recipient's committee ID and the giving committee's organization type, and confirmed on each giver's filing at docquery.fec.gov. Labor organizations' PACs: 20 rows from 15 committees, dated July 13 to August 28, 2026; the fifteenth, the Carpenters' PAC ($5,000 on August 12), first appeared on the September 25 read. Membership organizations' PACs: the American Association for Justice PAC ($5,000 on July 23 and August 13), the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund ($125) and J Street PAC ($2,595 in seven rows on August 27). Corporation, trade association, cooperative and corporation-without-capital-stock PACs: none. Most rows are ActBlue's itemization of individual contributions routed through it, which are not committee money. Maximum Impac, a non-connected PAC, reported two transfers described as nominee funds, $112,888.31 on July 28 and $12,022.94 on August 4. Two Teamsters DRIVE rows of May 22, 2025 that name the committee but carry no recipient committee ID, on the line for other disbursements and before the committee existed, are left out. These are other committees' reports as processed so far, not the campaign's own record of receipts.
Federal Election Commission. Names seven committees in its section for connected organizations, affiliated committees and joint fundraising representatives: Maine Victory Fund 2026, Majority 2026 II, Maine - Iowa Senate Victory, Justice 2026, Flanagan, Jackson, Turek Senate Victory Fund, Blue Senate Candidate Fund, and Coast to Coast Senate Fund. The form gives no website. Read as a PDF (sha256 87509089...197f).
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Congressional Record of March 12, 2026. Collins urges the Senate to end the Homeland Security shutdown and take up the department's funding bill, and says defunding ICE and CBP is not a serious public policy solution.
U.S. Senate. The Senate's own vote records (vote_119_2_00018.xml and so on), read September 25, 2026. Votes 38 to 74, February 12 to March 26, 2026, are the seven cloture votes on the motion to proceed to H.R. 7147; each was rejected under the three-fifths rule, and each lists Collins (R-ME) Yea. Vote 18, January 30, is Sanders Amendment 4290 to H.R. 7148, rejected 49 to 51, with Collins Yea.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Tom Cole. The action list records the seven failed cloture votes, Senate passage with an amendment by voice vote on March 27, 2026, and enactment on April 30.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved April 30, 2026. Section 4 sets the spending-table amounts under the ICE heading, and under CBP's Border Security Operations, to $0, and the Act has no ICE appropriation of its own (read in the enrolled text, BILLS-119hr7147enr). Division B covers the lapse that began on or about February 14, 2026.
Congress.gov. Sponsor Lindsey Graham; the 2026 reconciliation bill. Passed the Senate 52 to 47 on June 5, 2026 (Roll Call 163, with Collins Yea) and became law June 10.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Approved June 10, 2026. Sections 102 and 202 give ICE $7,450,000,000 and $31,075,000,000, and Sections 101, 103 and 201 give CBP $9,550,000,000, $3,450,000,000 and $13,020,000,000. All of it is in addition to amounts otherwise available and stays available until September 30, 2029.
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The details
Election facts. Original sources.
Election date
November 3, 2026
Launch rating
Cook Political Report: Toss Up; dated August 20, 2026
Ballot source updated
Candidate and replacement lists dated July 27, 2026; write-in list dated August 25, 2026; reviewed September 2, 2026.
Candidate field
Printed candidates checked against official election records.