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Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) today pushed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas Vilsack to expand grant eligibility for projects based in former mill sites. The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy ... Read More »

Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today welcomed news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is allocating $5.4 million through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) for Maine. This funding, announced today as part of a $380 million nationwide allocation, will help suppor... Read More »

House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Ranking Member Chellie Pingree joined leaders on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in pressing for answers from U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack regarding failures under its Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), which have inflicted a dire food shortage crisis on our nation’s Tr... Read More »

Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree joined Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in Maine to highlight conservation and preservation efforts underway through the National Park Service. On Thursday, Pingree and Secretary Haaland visited the Frances Perkins Homestead in Newcastle, where they met with local leaders to learn about the community’s vision for the care and management of th... Read More »

Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus Founder and Chair Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is leading members of the Caucus in urging President Joe Biden to include representatives from the textile and fashion industries in his new White House Task Force on Climate and Trade. In a letter to the president, Pingree and her fellow Slow Fashion Caucus members highlight the significant environmental challenges of t... Read More »

This week Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) hosted U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in Maine for a two-day tour of ongoing infrastructure projects across the First District, highlighting how investments made possible by the Biden Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are strengthening supply chains, supporting rural and tribal communities, and making it eas... Read More »

Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is joining a Congressional push to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to grant presidents immunity from criminal prosecution. The constitutional amendment, introduced and led by Congressman Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), is cosponsored by nearly 50 Democratic Members of Congress. This week, President Biden called for a similar constitutional ... Read More »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced she will not attend Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress today, and issued the following statement: “The October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas terrorists were a heinous crime. Israel has a right to defend itself and its people. However, Israel does not have a right to violate international law. I am horrified by the s... Read More »

Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today released the following statement in response to the U.S. Army Reserve and U.S. Army Inspector General’s (IG) reports on the mass shooting in Lewiston: “Our state was forever changed on October 25, 2023. In the time since that tragic day, we have grieved as a community for those who were killed; we have also demanded answers on how and why th... Read More »

Tonight, House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is leading the House Democratic Caucus’s opposition on the floor, where she is pushing back on numerous extreme poison pill Republican amendments. Republicans’ bill takes an aggressive anti-environment, pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisi... Read More »

First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today released the following statement: “Our nation was still in the throes of a global pandemic and just days removed from a violent insurrection when Joe Biden took office. In the months and years that have followed, President Biden rose to an extraordinary moment in America’s history, not only leading us through an historic recovery from the pandemic... Read More »

On Wednesday night, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a longtime farmer and member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, spoke out against House Republicans’ Agriculture Appropriations bill for the 2025 fiscal year. In remarks before the full House Appropriations Committee, Pingree said the bill puts critical nutrition programs at risk, hurts farmers in Maine and across t... Read More »

First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today released the following statement: I’m continuing to have candid conversations with my colleagues and leadership about how we move forward. These are not easy discussions and not ones we expected to be having four months before the election, but they are necessary. The unifying force behind these conversations is a clear understanding that Donald T... Read More »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced $7.4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to combat child hunger in Maine. Distributed through the nonprofit Full Plates Full Potential, seven organizations in Maine were awarded School Food System Innovation Grants to help schools overcome the barriers to purchasing Maine-based foods for their school meal programs and estab... Read More »

During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) highlighted how the bill takes an aggressive anti-environment, pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and increas... Read More »