WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today voted to pass the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies bill, as well as the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies bill. Pingree secured increased funding to combat the climate crisis, invest in safe housing and modernized transportation, create tho more PR

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release on July 15, 2021: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) led a group of 10 lawmakers from across the country today to press House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer not to hold up a vote on bipartisan infrastructure legislation after it is received from the Senate. The letter challenges Speaker Pelosi's stated strategy to block a bipartisan infrastructure bill from a vote in the House until a larger more PR

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced that three projects in Maine have received $180,058 in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm to School Grant program to support local food procurement and agricultural education in Maine schools. "Empowering schools to access healthy, locally grown foods will help to transform our food system, connecting kids to the p more PR

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Congresswomen Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Julia Brownley (D-CA), and Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH) introduced two bills, the Zero Food Waste Act and the Cultivating Organic Matter through the Promotion Of Sustainable Techniques (COMPOST) Act, to reduce the amount of food wasted in the U.S. and to redirect food waste to composting projects. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced companion legislation  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to reinstate and honor the Senate confirmed, six-year term of Andrew Saul as Social Security Administration (SS more PR

SEARSPORT, Maine, July 17 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on July 16, 2021: U.S. Senator Susan Collins and Maine Department of Transportation (Maine DOT) Commissioner Bruce A. Van Note visited Searsport today to review two high-priority projects: the planned reconstruction of Route 1 and the maintenance dredging of the Port of Searsport. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Collins submitted congressionally directed spending requests t more PR

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine), both members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), have joined their colleagues to introduce the Intelligence Community Workforce Agility Protection Act of 2021 - which would allow intelligence community (IC) professionals to deduct certain moving expenses from their federal taxes, as is currently allowed by active-duty membe more PR

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine), both members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), have joined their colleagues to introduce the Intelligence Community Workforce Agility Protection Act of 2021 - which would allow intelligence community (IC) professionals to deduct certain moving expenses from their federal taxes, as is currently allowed by active-duty member more PR