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Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-03T08:05:35.942Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #81674)
Resolved official: Susan M. Collins (entity #10789)
Ingest result: 45 facts · 44 sources · 3 contradictions · 7 voting_records
Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.
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"name": "Susan M. Collins",
"bioguide_id": "C001035"
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{
"fact_text": "In the 2019-2024 cycle, Collins raised $29,398,892 with top contributors including Blackstone Group ($97,050), Lockheed Martin ($75,979), Senior Star ($67,700), Republican Jewish Coalition ($60,067), and Goldman Sachs ($49,675). Top industries were Retired ($6,142,518), Securities & Investment ($2,167,379), and Real Estate ($1,499,442).",
"date_occurred": "2024-06-30",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/susan-collins/summary?cid=N00000491&cycle=2024"
},
{
"fact_text": "Over her entire Senate career, Collins has received approximately $916,000 from donors associated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, according to data aggregated from FEC filings and compiled by Track AIPAC.",
"date_occurred": "2025-12-19",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/12/19/maine-cannot-look-away-from-gaza-or-its-own-responsibilities-opinion/"
},
{
"fact_text": "In 2025, AIPAC accounted for nearly 20% of the money Collins raised, far outpacing what she collected from small donors, according to analysis by Zeteo.",
"date_occurred": "2026-02-04",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://occupysf.net/index.php/2026/02/05/susan-collins-is-getting-more-money-from-aipac-than-small-donors/"
},
{
"fact_text": "Collins' top career contributors (2015-2020) included Blackstone Group ($87,821), General Dynamics ($72,103), FedEx Corp ($64,860), Blue Cross/Blue Shield ($63,711), and Republican Jewish Coalition ($62,067), per OpenSecrets.",
"date_occurred": "2020-12-31",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00000491&cycle=2020&recs=100&type=C"
},
{
"fact_text": "65.81% of Collins' 2019-2024 campaign funds came from large individual contributions ($19,348,707), 17.90% from small donors ($5,264,060), and 10.15% from PACs ($2,983,268).",
"date_occurred": "2024-06-30",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/susan-collins/summary?cid=N00000491&cycle=2024"
},
{
"fact_text": "Quiver Quantitative estimates Collins' net worth at approximately $6.6 million as of October 2025, ranking 142nd highest in Congress. Approximately $3.5 million is invested in publicly traded securities.",
"date_occurred": "2025-10-17",
"confidence": "inferential",
"source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Fundraising+Update:+Senator+Susan+M.+Collins+just+disclosed+$1.2M+of+new+fundraising"
},
{
"fact_text": "Collins' stock portfolio reportedly rose in value by about 77.5% in 2024, placing her eighth among members of Congress for portfolio growth. She earned an estimated $363,100 from stock market gains in a single month in 2025.",
"date_occurred": "2025-05-22",
"confidence": "inferential",
"source_url": "https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/net-worth-update-senator-susan-m.-collins-made-estimated-363.1k-stock-market-last-month"
},
{
"fact_text": "Collins does not support a Republican colleague's bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks. She has stated that her husband, Tom Daffron, a former Senate staffer who also ran a lobbying firm, owns all the couple's stocks.",
"date_occurred": "2025-08-01",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/01/politics/washington/susan-collins-does-not-support-a-republicans-proposed-stock-trading-ban/"
},
{
"fact_text": "Salon reported in 2020 that Collins wrote contracting reform legislation as a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that appears to have directly benefited Jefferson Consulting, the lobbying firm where her future husband Thomas Daffron served as COO. The firm took in nearly $60 million in federal contracts during his tenure from 2006-2016.",
"date_occurred": "2020-10-12",
"confidence": "secondary",
"source_url": "https://www.salon.com/2020/10/12/susan-collins-wrote-legislation-that-made-millions-for-her-husbands-lobbying-firm/"
}
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"silences": {
"no_data": true,
"reason": "Collins has been consistently vocal across her entire policy portfolio throughout her Senate career, issuing frequent press releases, floor speeches, and public statements on major issues including Israel-Gaza, Iran war powers, healthcare, budget, and national security. No falsifiable policy silence with active-on-adjacent evidence could be identified."
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"claim_text": "Susan Collins voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on October 6, 2018. During her floor speech announcing her vote, Collins asserted she did not believe Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. Wade, stating he had called it 'settled law' and 'precedent upon precedent.' She also voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch in April 2017 and to trigger the 'nuclear option' to secure his confirmation.",
"claim_date": "2018-10-05",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/5/17929028/read-transcript-susan-collins-speech-kavanaugh-vote-supreme-court"
},
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"claim_text": "On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court, with Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in the majority, voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Collins issued a statement saying the decision was 'completely inconsistent' with what Gorsuch and Kavanaugh had told her during their confirmation processes, and that she felt misled.",
"claim_date": "2022-06-24",
"claim_type": "statement",
"source_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-collins-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-inconsistent-gorsuch-kavanaugh/"
},
{
"claim_text": "Collins campaigned as a fiscal conservative, repeatedly emphasizing deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility. In 2017 she was one of three Republicans to vote against the ACA 'skinny repeal,' citing concerns it would drive up insurance costs and cause millions to lose coverage. She had expressed reservations about the tax bill's repeal of the individual mandate.",
"claim_date": "2017-07-28",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/28/susan-collins-withstands-intense-pressure-to-vote-against-health-care-repeal/"
},
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"claim_text": "Collins voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017 after receiving promises from GOP leadership on separate healthcare measures that were never fulfilled. The bill repealed the ACA's individual mandate and was projected to add $1.5 trillion to the national debt. The New York Times editorial board noted she 'blithely voted for a tax bill that will leave a gaping hole in that law.'",
"claim_date": "2017-12-19",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://www.bangordailynews.com/2017/12/25/opinion/collins-sided-with-her-senate-chums-over-mainers-on-the-tax-bill/"
},
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"claim_text": "Collins voted to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial on February 13, 2021, stating his conduct on January 6 was like 'tossing a lit match into a pile of dry leaves.' She was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict.",
"claim_date": "2021-02-13",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://ninerswire.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/13/susan-collins-vote-convict-donald-trump-impeachment/6747082002/"
},
{
"claim_text": "In Trump's first impeachment trial, Collins voted to acquit on February 5, 2020, stating she believed Trump had learned a 'pretty big lesson' from the impeachment and 'will be much more cautious in the future.' The Washington Post editorial board called her vote one that 'personifies her soulless party.'",
"claim_date": "2020-02-05",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/susan-collinss-impeachment-vote-personifies-her-soulless-party/2020/02/05/"
}
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"type": "platform_vs_vote",
"severity": "high",
"narrative": "Collins claimed she had 'done her homework' and that Kavanaugh would respect Roe as settled law — her stated precondition for supporting any nominee. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch then voted to overturn Roe in Dobbs. Collins' expression of feeling 'misled' directly contradicts her earlier assurances to constituents that her votes were based on careful vetting, not assurances from the nominees alone."
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"type": "platform_vs_vote",
"severity": "high",
"narrative": "Collins voted against ACA repeal because it would strip coverage from millions and raise costs, yet weeks later voted for a tax bill that achieved the same result by repealing the individual mandate. She accepted promises of subsequent healthcare legislation that GOP leaders never delivered, with the day after her tax vote making clear there would be no vote on those measures."
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"type": "reversal",
"severity": "medium",
"narrative": "Collins voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment for inciting the January 6 insurrection, citing the severity of his actions. However, only one year earlier she voted to acquit him in his first impeachment, claiming he had 'learned a pretty big lesson' — a prediction that was directly contradicted by the events of January 6."
}
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"bill_id": "PN2259",
"title": "Confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2018-10-06",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00223",
"why_it_matters": "Collins' vote was decisive — she was the final Republican holdout whose support secured Kavanaugh's confirmation 50-48. She had promised she would not vote for anyone who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Kavanaugh later voted to do exactly that in Dobbs. Top donor Blackstone Group ($97,050) and Securities & Investment sector ($2.1M) backed conservative judicial nominees broadly.",
"category": "donor_aligned"
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"bill_id": "S.J.Res. 118 / S.J.Res. 104",
"title": "War Powers Resolution to direct removal of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities in Iran not authorized by Congress",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2026-04-30",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/03/04/2026/senator-collins-statement-on-iran-war-powers-resolution",
"why_it_matters": "Collins became the first Senate Republican to flip on the Iran war, voting with Democrats just one day before the 60-day War Powers Act deadline. She had opposed five previous war powers resolutions. She stated the 60-day deadline 'is not a suggestion; it is a requirement.' Only two Republicans (Collins and Rand Paul) defected. 49 Republicans voted nay. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin is her #2 career donor ($75,979).",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 1 (115th Congress)",
"title": "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Trump tax cuts, projected to add $1.5 trillion to national debt)",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2017-12-19",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1",
"why_it_matters": "Collins voted for the tax bill after receiving promises of separate healthcare legislation that never materialized. Her top donor sectors — Securities & Investment ($2.1M) and Real Estate ($1.5M) — were major beneficiaries. The bill passed 51-48. The bill's repeal of the individual mandate contradicted her ACA skinny repeal vote, while its addition to the national debt contradicted her professed fiscal conservatism.",
"category": "donor_aligned"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 1628",
"title": "Health Care Freedom Act (ACA 'Skinny Repeal')",
"vote": "nay",
"vote_date": "2017-07-28",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1628",
"why_it_matters": "Collins was one of only three Republican senators (with McCain and Murkowski) to vote against the 'skinny repeal' of the ACA. She was the first Republican to declare her opposition, paving the way for the others. The bill would have eliminated the individual mandate and resulted in an estimated 16 million more uninsured. 49 Republicans voted yea. The vote defied immense pressure from GOP leadership and the White House.",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 1 (119th Congress)",
"title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Trump tax-and-spending reconciliation, adding over $3 trillion to national debt, cutting Medicaid)",
"vote": "nay",
"vote_date": "2025-07-01",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1",
"why_it_matters": "Collins was one of only three Republican senators to vote against Trump's signature domestic bill, citing Medicaid cuts that would affect Maine. She had advanced the bill procedurally but opposed final passage. The bill passed only with Vice President Vance's tie-breaking vote (50-50). Maine has a 10.7% poverty rate and thousands rely on Medicaid (MaineCare). Collins' earlier procedural vote to advance the bill drew sharp criticism from constituents and the DSCC.",
"category": "constituent_aligned"
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"bill_id": "Impeachment Article I",
"title": "Second Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump (incitement of insurrection, January 6)",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2021-02-13",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/24",
"why_it_matters": "Collins was one of only seven Republican senators to vote to convict Trump, stating he 'stoked discontent' and comparing his actions to 'tossing a lit match into a pile of dry leaves.' This was a dramatic reversal from her first impeachment acquittal vote one year earlier. 43 Republicans voted to acquit. She later co-authored the Electoral Count Reform Act to prevent future attempts to overturn elections.",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "PN1347",
"title": "Confirmation of Neil M. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2017-04-07",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/1347",
"why_it_matters": "Collins not only voted to confirm Gorsuch but also voted for the 'nuclear option' to change Senate rules to enable his confirmation with a simple majority. She stated Gorsuch would respect precedent on Roe. Gorsuch later voted to overturn Roe in Dobbs. The vote aligned with major donor interests (Blackstone, Lockheed Martin) and Republican orthodoxy while contradicting her stated commitment to abortion rights.",
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"district_summary": "Maine is a largely rural New England state with a population of approximately 1.39 million. It is the whitest state in the nation (94.2% White Non-Hispanic) and has the oldest median age (45.1 years). The state's economy is anchored by healthcare, defense shipbuilding (Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics subsidiary employing ~6,700), tourism, agriculture, and fishing. Maine has a median household income of $74,733 (slightly below the U.S. median), a 10.7% poverty rate, and a homeownership rate of 74.3%. The state is represented by Republican Susan Collins (since 1997) and Independent Angus King (since 2013). Collins is the most senior Republican woman in the Senate and chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee. Maine voters approved a 2024 ballot measure limiting super PAC contributions by a 74.9% margin, reflecting strong voter sentiment against dark money in politics.",
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"name": "Maine Question 2 (2024) — $25 Million Bond for Research and Development",
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