What is Susan Collins?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Susan Collins |image = Susan Collins official Senate photo.jpg |caption = Collins in 2015 |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = [[Maine]] |alongside = [[Angus King]] |term_start = January 3, 1997 |term_end = |predecessor = [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]] |successor = |office1 = Chair of the [[United States Senate Special Committee on Aging|Senate Aging Committee]] |term_start1 = January 3, 2015 |term_end1 = February 3, 2021 |predecessor1 = [[Bill Nelson]] |successor1 = [[Bob Casey Jr.]] |office2 = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs|Senate Homeland Security Committee]] |term_start2 = January 3, 2003 |term_end2 = January 3, 2007 |predecessor2 = [[Joe Lieberman]] |successor2 = Joe Lieberman |birth_name = Susan Margaret Collins |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|12|7}} |birth_place = [[Caribou, Maine|Caribou]], [[Maine]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |spouse = Thomas Daffron {{small|(2012–present)}} |education = [[St. Lawrence University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}} |website = {{url|collins.senate.gov|Senate website}} }} '''Susan Margaret Collins''' (born December 7, 1952) is an American politician who is the senior [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Maine]] since 1997.<ref name=congress>{{cite news|work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]|title=COLLINS, Susan Margaret, (1952 - )|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c001035}}</ref> She is a moderate<ref name=time>{{cite magazine|date=2009-02-12|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]|title=How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda|url=http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1878942,00.html|access-date=2012-10-20|archive-date=2012-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105023413/http://www.time.com/time/politics/