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U.S. Senators Angus King and Susan Collins and Representatives Bruce Poliquin and Chellie Pingree received letters today from the U.S. Department of Commerce announcing that it has agreed to establish an integrated, multi-agency Economic Development Assessment Team, known as an EDAT, to assist Maine’s forest products industry in the wake of several mill closures. The goal of the EDAT will be to le... Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to overturn a Texas law placing medically unnecessary regulations on abortion. The law would have slashed the number of clinics there, making it much more difficult for women to receive an abortion and other reproductive health services. “The intent of the Texas law was never about making women safer... Read more »

Coastal Counties Workforces Inc. in Brunswick receives Department of Labor TechHire grant to help Mainers secure jobs in IT industry Read more »

UPDATE: House Democrats ended their sit in after over 24 hours on the House floor, but will not stop demanding action on commonsense laws to prevent gun violence Congresswoman Chellie Pingree remained on the floor of the US House of Representatives throughout the night, as Democrats occupied the chamber to demand action on common sense gun legislation. Pingree, who began the sit in with Congressma... Read more »

In a dramatic moment this morning, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree joined civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis and her colleagues to occupy the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to demand that Republican leaders allow debate and a vote on common sense gun legislation. Pingree spoke on the House floor urging a debate and vote on bills to close the terrorist watch list loophole and to ex... Read more »

Responding to a proposal in Maine to withdraw from the SNAP program (formerly food stamps), Congresswoman Pingree said Maine families would lose access to critical benefits. "We are literally talking about taking the food off the table of Maine families struggling to make ends meet," Pingree said. "SNAP is a program funded by the federal government but the law is clear—it's up to the states to run... Read more »

In a letter to a top environmental official at the European Union (EU), members of the New England Congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representative Chellie Pingree, spoke out against a proposal by Sweden to ban the import of live Maine lobsters into the EU. Earlier this year, members of the Maine Congressional delegation asked U.S. officials to resp... Read more »

A bill written by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree to protect the urchin industry in Maine passed a key House Committee today. The measure would stop automatic, mandatory inspections of the highly perishable urchins when they are exported from the United States. "The inspections aren't necessary and they've resulted in the loss of this highly valuable product while it sits in a warehouse in New York... Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree issued the following statement in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando. Once again our country has been struck with an act of senseless violence and murder. We should put aside ideological and political difference and together stand up against acts of gun violence, hate crimes and domestic terrorism. My thoughts are with the families who have lost someone, the sur... Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said today that Shaw's Supermarkets in New England will be resuming their Fresh Rescue program to donate food to food pantries throughout the region. Pingree wrote to Shaw’s last winter after learning that food pantries in Maine had lost access to the donations when the program was ended. Pingree urged the company to consider the impact that ending the program was ha... Read more »