WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King, Colleagues Press USDA to Reinstate Food Shipments to Maine Food Banks WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) has joined his colleagues to press the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in reinstating previously approved shipments of food to Maine food banks. In a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, King and his colleagues asked for the concrete reasoning of the cancellatio  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King: America "Woefully Behind" on Hypersonic Weapons, Directed Energy Capabilities WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) raised concerns over the United States' hypersonic missile defense capabilities at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. King, the ranking member of the subcommittee, urged General Anthony J. Cotton, Commander of U.S. Stra  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Pingree: EPA's Reckless Gutting of Environmental Justice Programs Harms Communities Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (ME-01) denounced plans by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to eliminate all of the agency's offi  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Collins, Merkley Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Wastewater Systems from Non-Flushable Products Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the bipartisan Wastewater Infrastructure Pollution Prevention and Environmental Safety (WIPPES) Act, a bill to address health, ecosystem, and wastewater infrastructure concerns caused by the flushing o  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Collins, Murray Challenge the Administration's Treatment of Emergency Spending in Continuing Resolution Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee respectively, sent a letter to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought challenging the Administration's decision an  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release on March 27, 2025: * * * Senators Collins, Murray Challenge the Administration's Treatment of Emergency Spending in Continuing Resolution Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee respectively, sent a letter to Director of the Office of Management and   more