ME-SEN: Disapproval of Susan Collins Keeps Climbing

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8. I hope every single political ad in Maine from now to the election...

...points out that in 2009, Collins led the fight to slash money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act targeted to pandemic funding, just before the swine flu spread.

David Obey, who then chaired the House Appropriations Committee, said, "Whether or not this influenza strain turns out to have pandemic potential, sooner or later some strain will. We are not prepared today. Let’s hope we don’t need to be.”