WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: In a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), U.S. Senator Angus King, Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, questioned Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space and Missile Defense John Hill on the Department of Defense (DoD) FY25 missile-defense budget request. Throughout the hearing, King emphatically stressed that the requested budget is far short of the necessary research a  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Click HERE to watch and HERE to download. Ahead of Maine's peak tourism season, U.S. Senator Collins questioned Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Julie Su at an Appropriations hearing on the urgent need to make the authorized additional H-2B visas available to help fill open jobs in Maine's hospitality industry. As Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Collins secured languag  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Senators Susan Collins, Gary Peters (D-MI), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) led a bipartisan group of 26 Senate colleagues in calling on the United States Postal Service (USPS) to pause planned changes to its processing and delivery network that could slow down mail delivery until the potential impacts are studied by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) and any concerns raised are addressed b  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) today voted to table a motion to vacate the speakership, which would have removed House Speaker Mike Johnson from the post. He released the following statement: "Mike Johnson is not Kevin McCarthy," Golden said. "McCarthy was an untrustworthy leader ousted by his own party because he passed a budget. I wasn't going to save him for doing the bare minimum expected of Congress sin  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven today joined an effort led by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) calling on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to pause the implementation of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Mail Processing Facility Review (MPFR). The senators outlined the potential impact of movin  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced $1.5 million in federal funding to protect, conserve, and restore more than 2,000 acres of coastal wetlands and habitats in Maine. With this funding, the Blue Hill Heritage Trust will continue to build on their coastal conservation successes and will add to more than 184,000 acres conserved to date within 5 miles of the Gulf of Maine shoreline. Blue Hil  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Click HERE to watch and HERE to download At an Appropriations hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request for the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senator Susan Collins questioned Secretary Lloyd Austin about the horrific mass shooting that occurred in Lewiston, Maine on October 25, 2023. The killer, Robert Card, was a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army Reserve. During her questions, Senator   more