WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the toll from the epidemic of gun violence and deadly mass shootings across the country, most recently in Lewiston, Maine, continues to grow, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, reintroduced the Federal Firearm Licensing Act, legislation that would require individuals to obt more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Braun (R-IN), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Ted Budd (R-NC) wrote a letter urging HELP Committee Chair, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), to hold a hearing to ensure the Biden administration is upholding its legal responsibility to protect Jewish stude more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement after House Republicans rejected his amendment to H.R. 4821, the Department of Interior Appropriations Act of 2024, to prohibit commercial offshore wind (OSW) development in Lobster Management Area 1 (LMA 1) in the Gulf of Maine. "Offshore wind development in the Gulf's most productive fishing grounds is a threat to Maine fishermen's way of life more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, today welcomed more than $13 million in new investments from the Biden Administration to advance rural prosperity, economic development, competition, and sustainability in Maine. President Biden announced more than $5 billion in investments across five U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiatives, including investments more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release: Following Senate passage of the MilCon-VA, Agriculture-FDA, and Transportation-HUD appropriations bills, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor about the Senate's passage of the package and next steps for appropriations: "Thank you, M. President. What we've done t more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, announced today that the U.S. Senate has passed three Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) appropriations bills by a vote of 82-15. The bills must now be conferenced with the U.S. House of Representatives. The three bills are: the Fiscal Year 2024 Military Construction, Veterans  more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Washington D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) has been awarded $14,240,000 through the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration's (MARAD) Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP). The funding will support components of MaineDOT's "Enhancing Maine's Three-Port Stra more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Susan Collins and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act of 2023. This bipartisan legislation will reauthorize key federal grant programs to provide states with funding to help thousands of homeless young people nationwide. Companion legislation was introdu more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: As House Republicans prepare to pass their harmful fiscal year 2024 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is leading the House Democratic caucus's opposition on the floor, where she will be pushing back on 131 extreme anti-environment Republican amendments well past midnight. Republicans' bill takes an agg more PR