WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on June 22, 2022: U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) - Co-Chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus - announced their new bipartisan legislation, the Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act, to lower the skyrocketing costs of insulin. The new, bipartisan legislation builds on Collins' and Shaheen's previous efforts, increasing measures to encourage  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: The House Armed Services Committee approved a bipartisan amendment to this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) proposed by Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02). The legislation amends the NDAA to authorize a $37 billion increase in defense spending, including funding for the construction of a 3rd DDG-51 destroyer, $250 million in shipyard infrastructure, and funding to improve servicemember quality of more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today joined Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and a bipartisan group of Senate and House colleagues in introducing the Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services (SCREENS) for Cancer Act to reauthorize the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), a more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on June 22, 2022: At a Commerce Appropriations Subcommittee hearing today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins urged U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai to support Maine's lobster industry by pushing China to uphold its promise to purchase more U.S. lobster. In 2018, China imposed a 25 percent retaliatory tariff on U.S. lobster. Before the tariff, China was the second-largest importer of U.S. lobster, pu more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is cosponsoring bipartisan legislation to help military spouses find employment. The Military Spouse Hiring Act would incentivize small businesses to hire military spouses by expanding the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program to include those married to servicemembers. "America's military spouses make immense personal sacr more PR