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In Hearing with Sec. Vilsack, Pingree Emphasizes Need to Support Farmers in Face of Climate Crisis
February 14, 2024
In a House Agriculture Committee hearing today with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree sounded the alarm on the urgent need to support farmers in Maine and across the county facing challenges due to climate change. The hearing comes on the heels of devastating and costly storms in Maine, which severely impacted businesses, working waterfronts, and farm operations throughout the state.
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Congresswoman Pingree's 2023 in Review
December 21, 2023
2023 was very busy! I have been defending the huge legislative gains we made last Congress while fending off Republicans' dangerous and extreme agenda. Please take a moment to watch my video recap of 2023, highlighting how I worked for you and all First District Mainers in Congress.
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Ranking Member Pingree Leads Opposition to Republican Appropriations Bill Defunding Climate Programs
November 2, 2023
As House Republicans prepare to pass their harmful fiscal year 2024 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) spoke in strong opposition to the bill on the House floor. Republicans’ bill takes an aggressive anti-environment and pro-pollution stance with a crippling 39% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and i...
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Pingree Slams House Republicans’ Plan to Defund National Parks, Shuts Down Public Museums
July 13, 2023
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, today derided Republicans’ Fiscal Year 2024 funding bill for the Subcommittee, which defunds cash-strapped National Parks, decimates funding to prevent climate disasters, and shuts down public museum exhibits.
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