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The "Pingree Protect Our Health Amendment" would have stripped language from the Republican Farm Bill that shields chemical companies from liability lawsuits, preempts state and local regulation over usage, and removes protections that limit pesticide pollution. The Amendment was not adopted, with every Republican on the Committee voting against it.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and more than two dozen more of her Democratic colleagues are in Minnesota for a field hearing titled Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Deadly Assault on Minnesota. Pingree’s visit to Minneapolis comes amid reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be increasing immigration operations in southern Maine.