SULLIVAN, Maine, July 14 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) was in Hancock County last Thursday to hear from small business and industry leaders on the state of Maine's aquaculture sector. Graham Platner, owner of Frenchman Bay Oyster Company, took Golden by boat for a tour of his farm off Hancock Point. Afterwards, Golden had lunch with Platner and several other small business owners in Ellsworth, where the group more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) have introduced bipartisan legislation that would expand the United States' capacity to track infectious diseases in wastewater. The Public health Response and Emergency Detection through Integrated wastewater Community Testing Act (PREDICT) Act, would significantly strengthen the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NW more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), and Congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-Puerto Rico-At-Large) introduced bipartisan legislation to support women farmers and ranchers in Maine and across the U.S. The Women in Agriculture Act would create a Women Farmers and Ranchers Liaison at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), establi more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on July 14, 2023, and a letter: Yesterday Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), along with a bipartisan group of colleagues, formally announced the formation of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum (BFF), a group dedicated to sounding the alarm about our nation's unsustainable debt trajectory and working together to gain control of our fiscal future. Led by Reps. Scott Peters (D-California) and Bill Huizenga (R-Michigan), the steeri more PR