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Senator Collins has gotten pharmaceutical checks and certainly got contracts for them too.

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Troy Jackson, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 2 (WMTW)

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Why we checked itA specific allegation that Collins received pharmaceutical industry money and secured contracts for those donors — verifiable through campaign finance records and legislative/contracting records.
What we foundCollins has verifiably received substantial pharmaceutical industry campaign contributions, and there is a documented instance of pharmaceutical company family donations coinciding with a VA contract, but the claim that she personally 'got contracts for them' overstates what is established — the contracts went to companies, not to Collins, and a direct causal link has not been independently proven.
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