Senator Susan Collins chairs the Committee Probes Committee.
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Badlands MediaAug 11, 2026
No source identifies any Senate committee called the "Committee Probes Committee." The sources show Collins chairs the Appropriations Committee, and that she formerly chaired the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, so the claim's named committee is wrong. The passage itself uses this name, so the extraction is faithful, but the claimed chairmanship does not match the record as of 2026-08-11.
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What was said
… So we're we got 95% of all of his appointees that are ready, they are now done. That is good news for President Trump and the administration. We also got a CR through, so that we will not have another government shutdown, and that was a big win. Senator Susan Collins, who chairs the Committee Probes Committee, did a good job of that. We got no get out of here. We're not, Brad. We're not. We are we are not praising Susan Collins on this show. We're not gonna we're not gonna allow that to take place. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Official Senate and congress.gov listings show Collins chairs the Appropriations Committee, not a committee by the name used in the claim.[1][2][3]
Contradicts. Collins's chair record lists the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as a former chairmanship, not a current one, and no source names a "Committee Probes Committee."[2][4]
Context. Collins's Senate committee assignments were confirmed as Appropriations (Chair), HELP, and Intelligence in sources dated after the claim was made.[1][5]
Sources
5 sources: 4 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Aboutcollins.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Chair Collins | United States Senate Committee on Appropriationsappropriations.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 3Senator Susan M. Collinscongress.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 4COLLINS, Susan Margaret | US House of Representativeshistory.house.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 5FAQ - Susan Collins for Mainesusancollins.com · not rated · cited for: context
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