WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Golden, colleagues introduce bipartisan Hospice Recertification Flexibility Act WASHINGTON - Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) announced today the introduction of the bipartisan Hospice Recertification Flexibility Act (link is external), which allows hospice providers to use telehealth to conduct the face-to-face visit required for terminally ill patients to continue receiving hospice services after 180  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King Statement on Trump's Joint Address to Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) released the following statement after the conclusion of President Trump's first joint address to Congress of his second White House term: "Prices are rising, government services are declining, and Putin is smiling -- all as the results of the President's recent actions with tariff threa  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King, Blumenthal Raise Concerns Over Proposed $1 Spending Limit on VA Purchasing Cards WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), members of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC), are raising concern over a proposed spending limit of $1 on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) purchasing cards -- the cards used to pay for gas to transport disabl  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Pingree Statement on President Trump's Joint Address to Congress Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree released the following statement tonight after President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress: What the American people heard tonight wasn't some vision for a better future, or a common-sense plan to tackle our nation's most pressing challenges, but a bizarre spectacle of lies, f  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Pingree, King Demand Answers on Trump Admin.'s Termination of Maine Sea Grant Funding In response to the Trump Administration's decision to cancel a four-year, $4.5 million funding agreement for the Maine Sea Grant program, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Senator Angus King today sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, demanding that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati  more