Susan Collins

Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'The Confession'

2013-05-10 13:30:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black Paul (Dylan Bruce)...

Senate bill aims to toughen Iran sanctions

2013-05-08 16:51:00

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would sharply toughen U.S. economic sanctions on Iran despite administration calls for Congress to delay penalties that could disrupt diplomacy aimed at resolving...

Letters: Narrowing the NRA

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Re "Both sides of debate at NRA convention," May 4 When the National Rifle Assn. backed improved background checks on gun buyers in the 1990s, the organization truly was nonpartisan. Time and money have changed that. Witness the lineup of speakers...

Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat

2013-04-18 20:11:00

WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...

Gun control: Wait till next year -- or the year after

2013-04-18 14:13:00

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) formally suspended the Democrats’ drive for new�gun control�legislation Thursday, shelving his party’s bill after Wednesday’s defeat of its centerpiece, a measure for expanded background...

Senate passes bill to end controller furloughs

2013-04-25 18:18:13

The U.S. Senate revived and passed a measure to end air-traffic controller furloughs as most members were flying home on recess, after four days of flight delays blamed on staffing shortages from budget cuts. The Senate unanimously approved a hastily...

Senate rejects gun background check measure

2013-04-17 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

Senate passes bill to ease FAA furloughs

2013-04-25 18:36:00

WASHINGTON -- With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. A House vote on the measure was expected as early as...

Senators point blame, solutions to air traffic delays

2013-04-23 13:02:00

WASHINGTON -- As delayed flights jammed up air travel, Senate Republicans on Tuesday blamed the White House for furloughing air traffic controllers, as Democrats offered a new proposal to replace the sequester cuts that have begun to affect ordinary...

Senate showdown set on gun control

2013-04-16 20:15:00

WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...

Congress reacts to Boston Marathon bombings

2013-04-16 09:02:00

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders reflected with grief on the tragic loss of life in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, but had few immediate answers as to the nature of the attack. The flag over the U.S. Capitol was at half staff and...

Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate

2013-04-16 15:03:00

WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...

Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai (R) meets with U.S. Senators at the Bagram airbase some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Kabul, January 7, 2002. Nine U.S. senators arrived at Bagram and met with Karzai and several members of the new interim administration.

2012-11-29 10:00:21

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) (R) listens while Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) takes questions during a press conference on Capitol Hill December 9, 2010 in Washington, DC.

2012-11-27 05:39:36

Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) leave a news conference after the Senate passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, also known as the Stock Act.

2012-03-22 00:00:00