WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) praised the Senate passage of the Fire Grants and Safety Act, a bill she led with Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). The bipartisan legislation, which was co-sponsored by Senator Angus King (I-ME), will extend federal programs that support local fire departments across the country. The bill would reauthorize the Fe more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced that The Jackson Laboratory is receiving $1,283,324 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for two innovative research projects aimed at improving human health. One project will examine the relationship between exercise and cognitive function among the aging population and the other will study ways to improve regeneration of damaged human tissue. more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced that The Jackson Laboratory is receiving $1,283,324 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for two innovative research projects aimed at improving human health. One project will examine the relationship between exercise and cognitive function among the aging population and the other will study ways to improve regeneration of dama more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senator Angus King today laid out his goals for achieving a clean energy future. In a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, King questioned Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on her support for permitting reform measures and alternative energy technologies. King began by emphasizing the need for permitting reform, and asking the Secretary if she agrees  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) and Representatives Paul D. Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), are introducing a bicameral bill that could expand America's clean energy portfolio by researching the potential of floating solar panels. The POWER our Reservoirs (Protect our Waters and Expand Renewables on our Reservoirs) Act would study and pilot floating solar technologies tha more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today joined Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and other Congressional Progressive Caucus members in marking the Green New Deal's fourth anniversary. In a press conference on Capitol Hill, the Members unveiled new Green New Deal legislation, highlighted climate progress in the Inflation Reduction Act,  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release: At a hearing to review the fiscal year 2024 budget request for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the Ranking Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, questioned the Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall about the alarming leak of classified documents by a more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in passing bipartisan legislation to extend federal programs that help support local fire departments across the country. The bill would reauthorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency more PR