Today, Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) leaders Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a longtime farmer and member of the House Agriculture Committee, Reps. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), DWC Chair, and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), urged Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to ensure discrimination settlement funds reach women farmers and those who have faced discrimination by the… Read more »
Amid continued Republican threats to take food away from hungry Americans by weakening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation's most effective anti-hunger program, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and her fellow Democratic House Agriculture Committee members are calling on Speaker Kevin McCarthy to respect the Farm Bill process and leave partisan politics… Read more »
With Congress in the process of crafting a five-year legislative package to support American agriculture, nutrition, and rural development, U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) hosted House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) and her fellow Committee members in Midcoast Maine for a listening session on the next Farm Bill. Pingree, Chair Thompson, and… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Congressman Clay Higgins (R-La.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to expand financial support for fishing communities in Maine and across the country. The Fishing Industry Credit Enhancement Act would allow businesses that provide direct assistance to fishing operations – like gear producers or cold storage – to… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), and Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico-At-Large) introduced bipartisan legislation to support women farmers and ranchers in Maine and across the U.S. The Women in Agriculture Act would create a Women Farmers and… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is applauding the Biden Administration for its $300 million investment to improve measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in climate-smart agriculture and forestry. The new investments, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, will advance priorities set by the… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led a bipartisan letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture urging them to address harmful PFAS (per- and polyfluoralkyl substances) contamination in the 2023 Farm Bill to help provide safe, clean water to farmers and rural… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today commended President Biden’s administration for providing $2.7 billion to support American farmers, students who participate in school meal programs, and emergency food operations. The announcement includes $3,400,000 for Maine’s Emergency Food Providers and $4,581,570 for Maine’s school meal programs.
“The combination… Read more »
As House Appropriators work on the government funding bill for Fiscal Year 2024, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is pushing back against Republican threats to essential food benefits like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). In today’s full committee markup of the fiscal year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug… Read more »
Maine’s First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and her Democratic colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee today vehemently defended essential programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) under threat from House Republicans in what may be the Committee’s only hearing on Nutrition, the fourth Title of the Farm Bill.
“The thing that I find really… Read more »
