WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: To watch or download the exchange click here In a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), U.S. Senator Angus King questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about a recent munitions transfer from the United States to Israel. The hearing comes on the heels of a mistaken airstrike that resulted in the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers in Gaza. King stressed that wh  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: Senator Angus King has announced that Educate Maine been awarded $525,000 through the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2024 Congressionally-Directed Spending (CDS) appropriations package to establish and develop its Teach Maine Center, which will help to better connect Maine educators in all sixteen counties. The center will also work to implement the Teach Maine Plan -- a framework designed to support educators as  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release: At a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Defense, highlighted the risks the Administration's request would impose on our national defense. Senator Collins also highlighted the need for the House to pass the n  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Click HERE, HERE, or HERE for individual high-resolution photos Senator Susan Collins delivered remarks and discussed her legislative priorities at the annual Alzheimer's Association's Alzheimer's Impact Movement (AIM) Advocacy Forum in Washington. More than 1,000 advocates from all 50 states were in attendance, including Mainers that advocate or care for people living with Alzheimer's disease and other r  more