This fall, ProPublica reported that Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and others were implicated in a shocking pay-to-play scheme with a weapons contractor, amounting to criminal bribery.
Senator Collins may have lost her seat, but she’s still the powerful chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee during a pivotal lame duck session where hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.
People are sick of government corruption, bloated Pentagon budgets, and investments in warfare over human needs — and right now, multiple lawmakers tasked with cutting the checks face troubling allegations of corruption. We refuse to let them finish the job before they’re held accountable.
That’s why we’re rallying activists to demand that the Senate Ethics Committee investigate Sen. Collins and ANY lawmakers or congressional staff implicated in weapons contractor pay-to-play. An investigation can grind the appropriations process to a halt and push these crucial budget decisions into the new Congress, instead of lawmakers eager to maintain a broken status quo.