Collins says the meetings, aimed at finding more than $1 trillion in federal budget cuts, should be open to media coverage and streamed on the Internet.

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins says the "super committee" meetings aimed at reducing the federal deficit should be open. The super committee, set up by Congress to develop a package of budget cuts, has met several times this week, but none of the meetings have been public.

Collins says the public--and the rest of Congress--should know what cuts are being discussed by the 12-member panel charged with finding ways to reduce the federal deficit by a Thanksgiving week deadline.

"It is a very chaotic and, so far, not very transparent approach to reaching cuts in the neighborhood of $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion," she says.

Collins says if it were up to her, the meetings would be open to media coverage, according to Capitol News Service. She says she would also stream the meetings on the Internet, like other committees of Congress stream their proceedings.