This is in response to a story in the Sun Journal Nov. 7, “Collins critical of Obama on vaccine.”

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is not the chairman of a committee. The Bush administration lost the 2008 election, reducing her position on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to ranking Republican.
The Sun Journal should not have written the article in a manner that I believe insinuated she has authority on the committee. 

Give me a break. What did she do on that committee, with the $7 billion for pandemic flu preparedness? President Barack Obama has had only 9 months to address the vaccine problem.

William Mercier, Lewiston