WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: In a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), U.S. Senator Angus King, Chair of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, questioned Dr. Paul Scharre, the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, about the need for the Department of Defense (DoD) to shift its research and development (R&D) strategies. Citing hypersonic missiles a more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins, Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a resolution to recognize the 112th birthday of the Girl Scouts of America and celebrate its historic legacy of empowering girls and building powerful female leaders across the country. The Senate passed their resolution unanimously this week. "I am proud to have grown up as a Girl Scout in Caribou and to now be a m more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree joined their Congressional colleagues in welcoming Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Writing to Swedish Ambassador Urban Ahlin, Collins, King, and Pingree called Sweden's membership in NATO an "historic achievement" and thanked Sweden for its "commitment to defending democracy." "Sweden's commitment to dem more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: U.S. Senator Angus King spoke to top intelligence officials about the immediate need to address the opioid crisis that is causing around 300 American deaths per day, and costing Maine. In an open hearing of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee (SSCI), King asked Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray a more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and John Cornyn (R-TX) are urging the Administration to be more nimble in preventing the funding of the Russian war effort via gold sales. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the Senators argue that the United States needs to take additional steps to prevent Vladimir Putin and his cronies from selling gold to obtain hard ca more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Angus King pushed top Biden Administration officials on the need to support America's wildland firefighters. In a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), King shared the first-person account of a wildland firefighter and the conditions he endures with Meryl Harrell, Deputy Under Secretary of Natural Resources and the Environment at the Dep more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today joined their Congressional colleagues in welcoming Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Writing to Swedish Ambassador Urban Ahlin, Pingree, Collins, and King called Sweden's membership in NATO an "historic achievement" and thanked Sweden for its "commitment to defending democracy." Sw more PR

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), alongside Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Col.), Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Richard "Dick" Durbin (D-Ill.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Angus King (I-Maine), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jacklyn Rosen (D-Nev.), Jeanne S more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Health Committee, announced that she secured a provision in the March 8th funding package that was signed into law last week to reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) through December 31, 2024, at an annual rate of approximately $160 million per year - a roughly $10 million more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the bipartisan Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act to require the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to develop voluntary guidelines for election offices. These guidelines will address the use and ris more PR

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the Advancing Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Act, legislation to boost investments in grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), a type of transmission technology that expands capacity of existing transmission infrastructure. Companion legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Kathy Castor (D more PR