WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * "We're Experiencing in Real Time Exactly What the Framers Most Feared," King says to Republican Colleagues WASHINGTON, D.C.-- U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) shared his growing concerns over the Trump Administration's largely unconstitutional and unprecedented overreach. In a speech on the Senate floor, King cited the Founding Fathers to add historical perspective to the decisions facing the Senate   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Fischer Urges Colleagues to Include Paid Family Leave Bill in Upcoming Tax Package During a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) called on her colleagues to make American families' lives better by including her Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act in the upcoming tax package. Yesterday, Senator Fischer reintroduced her legislation with Senat  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * House Agriculture Leaders Pingree, Craig, Bishop: Illegal USDA Funding Freeze Hurts Farmers and Rural America Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) joined House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (D-Minn.) and House Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee Ranking Member Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-Ga.) in demanding answers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over the T  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King to Senate Colleagues: "Now is the Time to Establish a Redline--the Constitution Itself" To watch the floor speech click here or download here WASHINGTON, D.C.-- U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) today spoke on the Senate floor to share his growing concerns over the Trump Administration's largely unconstitutional and unprecedented overreach -- adding historical perspective to the decisions facin  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King, Intel Colleagues Sound Alarm About "DOGE" Risk to National Security and American Privacy in Letter to White House WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), joined his committee colleagues to sound the alarm on the new national security risks that present themselves with the current operations of the Department of Governme  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Murray, Pingree, and DeLauro: EPA Illegal Funding Cuts Harm Public Health, Environment, and Families Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (ME-01), and House Appropriations Committee Ranking  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Pingree: Imminent Purge of EPA Employees Will Undermine Agency's Obligations to Protect Human Health and the Environment Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, is calling on the newly-confirmed Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin to reject any effort   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Collins, King Join Colleagues in Calling for Prompt Implementation of Social Security Fairness Act Washington, D.C - U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King joined 26 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) calling for the immediate implementation of the Social Security Fairness Act. This bipartisan legislation  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Collins, King Join Colleagues in Calling for Prompt Implementation of Social Security Fairness Act WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King joined 26 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) calling for the immediate implementation of the Social Security Fairness Act. This bipartisan legislati  more