WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) have introduced legislation to combat cross-border money laundering. The Combating Cross-border Financial Crime Act of 2023 would establish a Cross-Border Financial Crime Center within the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate investigations and information-sharing related to financial crime more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: The Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) announces the launch of its J-1 Visa Waiver Program in collaboration with Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont in an ongoing effort to provide rural and underserved areas with adequate access to quality, affordable healthcare. The new program will help address the national healthcare provider shortage by easing the visa requirements for physicians who  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, Congressman Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Senator Baldwin (D-Wisc.) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support organic dairy farmers in Maine and across the country as they continue to face environmental and economical challenges. Pingree and 31 of her Congressional col more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin's (D-WV) bipartisan resolution designating November 2023 as National Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month. In the United States, more than 1,200,000 students experienced homelessness during the 2021-2022 school year, including an estimated 4,400 in Maine and 13,530 in West Virginia. Companion legi more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to introduce the bipartisan Promoting Maternal and Child Health Through Substance Use Prevention Act to reauthorize key prenatal and postnatal health initiatives. Those initiatives were established in  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik announced that following her advocacy the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) launched its J-1 Visa Program in collaboration with New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to make quality healthcare accessible to rural America by easing the visa requirements for nondomestic physicians who trained in the U.S. if they agree to practice in underserved areas. NBRC will rec more PR