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Pingree called attention to the severe back-to-back storms Maine endured in recent months, refuting Rep. Ryan Zinke’s (R-Mont.) assertion that sea level rise is not due to climate change.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, today emphasized the importance of building climate change resilience and supporting tribal co-stewardship in Acadia National Park and other national parks across the county.

In a House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing for the U.S. Forest Service today, Ranking Member Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) called attention to the severe storms Maine has endured in recent months, which have impacted local economies, infrastructure, and forests.

In light of a new Interim Commission Report on last October’s mass shooting in Lewiston, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today pushed Sergeant Major of the Army Michael R. Weimer on what guardrails are in place to prevent Army reservists, like the shooter Robert Card, from possessing a firearm when experiencing a mental health crisis, and what protocols exist to ensure local law enforcement are informed when a reservist’s access to military weapons and ammunition are restricted. Sergeant...

In a House Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee hearing today with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) shed light on challenges Maine farmers are facing amid meat processing backlogs. Pingree, a longtime farmer and member of both the House Agriculture Committee and House Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee, asked Secretary Vilsack how funding in the FY2025 Appropriations bill will help USDA address these ongoing challenges f...

Through Community Project Funding, Pingree secured $1,940,000 for the Town of Brunswick to install an 11,100-foot water line to the Bay Bridge community mobile home park and surrounding neighborhoods to bring a reliable drinking water supply to hundreds of vulnerable Brunswick residents who live in Bay Bridge Estates.

As President Biden Takes on Big Food Companies' #Shrinkflation Greed, Pingree Invites President of Maine’s Largest Hunger Organization to #stateoftheunion

Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today urged her House colleagues to support the Subcommittee’s funding bill for fiscal year 2024.

In remarks on the House floor Wednesday night, Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree called attention to the devastating impacts recent storms have had on Maine communities and working waterfronts.

In a House Agriculture Committee hearing today with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree sounded the alarm on the urgent need to support farmers in Maine and across the county facing challenges due to climate change. The hearing comes on the heels of devastating and costly storms in Maine, which severely impacted businesses, working waterfronts, and farm operations throughout the state.

2023 was very busy! I have been defending the huge legislative gains we made last Congress while fending off Republicans' dangerous and extreme agenda. Please take a moment to watch my video recap of 2023, highlighting how I worked for you and all First District Mainers in Congress.

"If Republicans were serious about getting asylum seekers out of shelters, then we would be debating my amendment to replace this misguided bill with my plan to get asylum seekers to work faster," Pingree said in remarks on the House floor

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) spoke in strong opposition to the bill on the House floor. Republicans’ bill takes an aggressive anti-environment and pro-pollution stance with a crippling 39% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and i...

Speaking on the U.S. House floor tonight, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) – a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee – denounced House Republicans’ Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.