WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Co-Chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, today praised the Senate's 83-11 passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023. With rising threats from Russia, China, and other adversaries, the annual bipartisan defense bill contains King-led provisions to modernize Amer  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today announced that two Maine organizations will receive a total of $22,381,297 in funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve fish migration in Maine rivers. The Atlantic Salmon Federation and the Maine Department of Marine Resources will use this funding to remove two dams that are no longer in use and in  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today announced that two Maine organizations will receive a total of $22,381,297 in funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve fish migration in Maine rivers. The Atlantic Salmon Federation and the Maine Department of Marine Resources will use this funding to remove two dams that are no longer in use and ins  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee - and an advocate for pragmatic, realistic, and rapid permitting reform to reach America's clean energy goals - released the following statement after he supported permitting reform as an amendment to the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act. "The world is literally in a race with climat  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today introduced bipartisan legislation to increase the diversity of participants in all National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded trials. The NIH Clinical Trial Diversity Act builds upon the NIH's current policies to enhance the inclusion of women, racially and ethnically diverse individuals and people across the lifespa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced $20 million for solar projects in Maine's First Congressional District, made possible through the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The projects in Gorham and South Berwick are expected to produce more than 16,000,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of combined electricity in their first full year of operation, and will create good paying,   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Ranking Member of the Housing Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that housing authorities in Ellsworth and Brewer will receive a total of $260,594 through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) Program. "The dedicated staff at housing authorities throughout Maine work hard to l  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Health Committee, applauded the launch of a first-of-its-kind data dashboard of non-fatal opioid overdoses nationwide. The dashboard was made available through a partnership between the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). These data are critical since non-fatal overdoses are a leading pred  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), along with Senators Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Mike Lee (R-Utah.) and Angus Stanley King Jr. (I-Maine.), also a member of SASC, and U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), introduced the Streamline Pentagon Spending Act, bipartisan and bicameral legislation to re  more