WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Angus King, Chairman of the Senate National Parks Subcommittee, and Representative Jared Golden are introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill to designate a Downeast Maine National Heritage Area. The legislation, which is cosponsored by Senator Susan Collins and Representative Chellie Pingree, would designate all of Hancock and Washington counties as an area with national importance, qualifying  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced today that an additional 35,000 H-2B visas for which they have strongly advocated will be made available to employers across the country to fill seasonal jobs. U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called Senator Collins to notify her that the additional visas have be more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: U.S. Senator Angus King today called for a simpler permitting process for new production of critical minerals, a key component of smart phones and network technology. In a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, King highlighted the burdensome process facing mineral mining projects, and pushed for a streamlined permitting procedure that will allow for new investment more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is joining Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Mark Warner (D-VA) to introduce legislation that will improve America's access to critical minerals by working closer with our allies, and counter China's current market dominance of this vital  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on March : U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced today that an additional 35,000 H-2B visas for which they have strongly advocated will be made available to employers across the country to fill seasonal jobs. U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called Senator Collins to notify her that the additional visas have been allo more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) led a bipartisan group of 20 women Senators in a letter to President Biden, urging his administration to take action in response to the Taliban's decision to renege on a commitment to allow Afghan girls to return to secondary school. Senators Collins, Shaheen, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) are visiting the United Nations headquarters in New York this wee more PR

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Angus King, Chairman of the Senate National Parks Subcommittee, and Representative Jared Golden are introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill to designate a Downeast Maine National Heritage Area. The legislation, which is cosponsored by Senator Susan Collins and Representative Chellie Pingree, would designate all of Hancock and Washington counties as an area with national importance, qualifyin more PR