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Dismantling ED would be a disaster for families and communities across the country—including here in Maine. Maine schools receive more than $250 million a year through ED (more than $2,000 per student). Title 1 funds, support for special education, Pell grants, money for Head Start: all would be in jeopardy if this unelected billionaire gets his way. What DOGE is doing isn’t an “audit.” It’s an assault our communities.

As the past few weeks have made painfully clear, this Administration will stop at nothing to achieve its extreme agenda. There’s a lot to be worried and angry about. Part of my job is to cut through the noise and explain, in plain terms, what’s going on. One issue at a time. I’ll be posting more video updates like this in the weeks and months ahead. Hopefully they help you better understand the issues—and what’s at stake.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), Ranking Member of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is leading the House Democratic caucus’s opposition on the floor, where she will be pushing back on nearly 100 extreme poison pill Republican amendments.

During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) highlighted how the bill takes an aggressive anti-environment pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and increase costs. The bill also slashes funding for National Parks and arts programs.

On Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 10 a.m., Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), ranking member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, and Members of Congress will announce the first-ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus to curb fast fashion pollution through climate-smart policies. The Members will be joined by sustainable fashion industry leaders and stakeholders, Patagonia, and ThredUp for the launch event and press conference on Capitol Hill.

On Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 10 a.m., Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), ranking member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, and Members of Congress will announce the first-ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus to curb fast fashion pollution through climate-smart policies. The Members will be joined by sustainable fashion industry leaders and stakeholders, Patagonia, and ThredUp for the launch event and press conference on Capitol Hill.

In the House Appropriations Committee markup of the Fiscal Year 2025 Defense funding bill, senior Appropriator and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) spoke out against harmful riders in Republicans funding bill. Speaking in support of Congresswoman Betty McCollum’s (D-Minn.) amendment to reinstate climate preparedness funding in the bill, Pingree called attention to rising sea levels in Maine and its impact on ...

Senior House Appropriator Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today led a bipartisan amendment to the Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations bill to increase the cap on seasonal labor visas, or H-2B visas.