WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Golden, Fitzpatrick reintroduce bill to ban foreign donations in state, local referendums WASHINGTON -- Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) today reintroduced the Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act, which would ban foreign nationals from making political contributions in state and local ballot initiatives and recall elections. "Foreign nationals should never be able to buy  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Golden, Luttrell introduce bipartisan bill to eliminate statute of limitations for Gold Star survivor benefits WASHINGTON -- Congressmen Jared Golden (ME-02) and Morgan Luttrell (TX-08) today introduced the Supporting our Surviving Spouses Act, which would eliminate the six-year statute of limitations on survivor benefits for Gold Star spouses. Golden began work on the bill following outreach from a c more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King, Colleagues Demand Explanation for DOGE Cuts at VA Impacting Healthcare for Maine Veterans WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), senior members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), led their House and Senate colleagues in a letter to Doug Collins, the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requesting detailed informat more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Collins Cheer Committee Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Wipe Out Non-Flushables from Wastewater Infrastructure Washington, D.C. - Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Maine's U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced that their bipartisan, bicameral Wastewater Infrastructure Pollution Prevention and Environmental Safety (WIPPES) Act cleared a key hurdle by passing out of the Senate Committee more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, issued the following remarks on May 20, 2025, at a hearing for the U.S. Department of the Interior's budget for fiscal 2026: * * * Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, thank you for holding this hearing this morning, and Secretary Burgum, thank you very much for being with us today. I appreciated that the slight delay in committee gave me a chan more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Joins Colleagues in Introducing Resolution Reaffirming U.S.-Canada Partnership WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Peter Welch today joined Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) in introducing a resolution to recognize the U.S.-Canada partnership and its shared interests in economic, energy and critical minerals, and national security. The United States and Canada share three ocean more PR