WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Maine's First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and all Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee today wrote to Chair Glenn "G.T." Thompson (R-Pa.) and Ranking Member David Scott (D-Ga.) urging that the nearly $20 billion of conservation funding passed in the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) be used only for its intended purpose in the upcoming Farm Bill. The Democratic lawmakers said the IRA more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-- U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), co-chairs of the Congressional Arctic Caucus, released the following statements after the Biden Administration released its detailed Implementation Plan for the U.S. National Strategy for the Arctic Region (NSAR). The NSAR Implementation Plan builds upon past efforts to increase security, environmental protection, sustain more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Click HERE to watch Senator Collins' remarks. Click HERE to watch the full press conference. Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Defense, and a bipartisan group of five Republican and five Democratic Senators held a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. A transcript of Senator Collins' remarks follows: "I too want to  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today welcomed news from the Biden-Harris Administration that Maine will be home to one of the nation's first Tech Hubs. The Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Tech Hub, led by the Maine Technology Institute, was designated as one of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country, authorized by the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act. The Tech Hubs program is an econo more PR