House Appropriations Committee member Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Bill that would boost funding for shelters and other services in Maine and across the country. In the Subcommittee’s markup on Wednesday, Pingree urged fellow appropriators to support her amendment, calling attention… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Vice-Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, and fellow Equality Caucus members today reintroduced bicameral legislation to ensure explicit nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQI+ people. The landmark Equality Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to extend non-discrimination protections to the LGBTQ+ community and would… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Vice-Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, is celebrating Pride Month and renewing her commitment to uplifting the LGBTQ+ communities in Maine and across the country, cosponsoring numerous equality-focused bills.
“We are fortunate to live in a place that protects the civil rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors… Read more »
Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, and Governor Janet Mills announced that the Maine Lobstermen’s Association and the State of Maine’s Department of Marine Resources prevailed in its court case against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).
“Maine’s lobstermen and women have long demonstrated their… 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 »
U.S. Senator Susan Collins and Representative Jared Golden along with Senator Angus King, Representative Chellie Pingree, and Governor Janet Mills are calling on the Biden Administration to include the views of Maine fishing communities in proposals for leasing commercial offshore wind areas in the Gulf Of Maine. In a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Maine… Read more »
Former President Donald Trump appeared in federal court in Miami today and was arraigned on 37 federal criminal charges. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) released the following statement:
“It is treasonous for any American citizen to compromise our most sensitive military secrets and Donald Trump is no exception. The evidence against Donald Trump is as damning as it is… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Congressman Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), Congressman Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), and Congressman Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) reintroduced the Iceland Commercial and Economic Leadership for Arctic and National Development (ICELAND) Act, legislation that would add Iceland to the list of nations eligible for investment and trade in the… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) released the following statement on the seven-count federal indictment of former President Donald Trump:
“To say that America is in uncharted waters this morning would be an understatement. According to reports, a former President of the United States will soon be arrested for a series of federal felonies including, in all… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced a Lincoln Academy student, Noah Arbuckle, is one of the first-place winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Pollution Prevention Works: A Storytelling Challenge for Students.” Noah created a video that features the semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries and the pollution prevention (P2)… Read more »
