WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) on Tuesday joined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator David Cash, Portland Mayor Kate Snyder, and Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Melanie Loyzim in Portland to celebrate a historic $13.8 million Infrastructure Law investment to assess and clean up Brownfields sites in communities throughout Maine's First District  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Angus King, Co-Chair of the Senate Broadband Caucus, is introducing legislation to reinstate internet neutrality protections and prohibit internet providers from unfair consumer practices. The Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act would reclassify broadband internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act, giving the Federal Communications Commission   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following statement on Aug. 2, 2022, with 25 senators: * * * U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 25 of his colleagues--including Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Steve Daines (R-Mo  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release and a July 29, 2022, letter: U.S. Senators Susan Collins, a member of the Appropriations Committee, and Angus King, a member of the Armed Services Committee, are calling on the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand childcare resources at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) after new DOD guidance has caused dozens of the shipyard's civilian employees to lose access to the vital service. In a letter to Deputy Se  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release and a July 29, 2022, letter: U.S. Senators Susan Collins, a member of the Appropriations Committee, and Angus King, a member of the Armed Services Committee, are calling on the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand childcare resources at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) after new DOD guidance has caused dozens of the shipyard's civilian employees to lose access to the vital service. In a letter to Deputy Sec  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following statement on Aug. 2, 2022, with 25 senators: * * * U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and 24 of their colleagues today issued the following joint statement in support of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stopping in Taiwan during her diplomatic trip to Asia: "We support Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. For decades, members of the United States Congress, including  more