WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Nov. 10, 2021: Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement highlighting the historic $65 billion of broadband funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which draws directly on the bipartisan BRIDGE Act he authored and released in June with U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). "We are on the cusp of making the largest ever investme  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on Nov. 10, 2021: The Office of U.S. Senator Angus King today announced the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has awarded the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) $6,552,614 to prevent and control emerging diseases including COVID-19. The funding is being awarded through the CDC's Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases program (ELC),   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced that the University of Maine (UMaine) has received a total of $510,104 to conduct research on potato breeding in Maine. This funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). "Maine's potato industry is an integral part of our state's heritage and plays a major role in our state's  more