Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and the U.S. House of Representatives took action today to prevent future attacks on Democracy and ensure the events of January 6, 2021 are not repeated. The bipartisan Presidential Election Reform Act (PERA), introduced by Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), members of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6… Read more »
Following the unsubstantiated decision by Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch to include Maine lobster on its seafood “Red List,” Senator Susan Collins, Congressman Jared Golden, Senator Angus King, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, and Governor Janet Mills published an open letter to retailers setting the facts straight.
On behalf of the 4,500 Maine lobstermen and women… Read more »
In an effort to provide a permanent fix to the severe erosion at Camp Ellis, U.S. Senator Susan Collins and U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree sent a letter to the leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to urge them to preserve a provision for Camp Ellis that they advocated for in the Water… Read more »
Today, Reps. Chellie Pingree (ME-01) and Joe Courtney (CT-02) led a coalition of representatives from the New England Congressional Delegations in writing to the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committees, urging them to include additional funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in the upcoming government funding package. As winter approaches,… Read more »
U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing up to $385 million in nine projects that will benefit Maine’s forest products and agriculture industries while helping to combat climate change.
The grants, which were awarded under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart… Read more »
U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) today introduced legislation to remove barriers and inequities from federally funded physician residency programs. The bipartisan Fair Access in Residency (FAIR) Act, which is strongly supported by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) as well as the University… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today voted alongside her Democratic and Republican colleagues in the House to pass the bipartisan Preventing a Patronage System Act, introduced by Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), which would secure the civil service and protect federal employees from losing statutory job protections and due… Read more »
Ahead of today’s House Education and Labor Committee hearing on removing barriers to organizing, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) reiterated her support for workers pursuing unionization in Maine and across the country, drawing attention to Chipotle’s union-busting tactics in Augusta:
“This summer, Chipotle abruptly closed a store in my district within weeks of workers… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today called attention to the suspicious and potentially illegal union-busting tactics in Maine by multi-billion-dollar chains Chipotle and Starbucks. In a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on removing barriers to organizing, fellow New England Representative Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) raised Pingree’s concerns, asking former National Labor… Read more »
After the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) gave lobster industry participants just two business days to submit proposals for a new risk reduction plan to protect right whales and denied lobstermen and their allies access to a key data tool, Maine’s congressional delegation pushed back today against these decisions by the agency.
In their letter to NMFS, Congressman Jared… Read more »
