WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * 'It is High Time we Stopped Thinking Politically as Republicans and Democrats,' King says as he Invokes Former Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith To watch the floor speech, click here The full transcript of the speech can be found here WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senator Angus King today spoke on the Senate floor to commemorate the 75 th anniversary of former U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith's (R  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Congresswoman Pingree Leads Bipartisan, Bicameral Effort to Expand and Strengthen Local Meat Processing Today, U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Jim Baird (R-Ind.), along with U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), reintroduced legislation to support small meat and poultry processors throughout the U.S. The bipartisan, bicameral Strengthening Local Processing A  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King Presses Interior Nominee on Protection of Public Lands WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), ranking member of the Senate National Parks Subcommittee, pressed Leslie Beyer, the nominee to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior overseeing lands and minerals management, about transferring public land away  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following floor remarks on April 29, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. President refers to the presiding officer of the Senate at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. President, almost 75 years ago, the junior Senator from Maine rose in this Chamber to deliver a speech from her heart about a crisis then facing our country, a crisis not arising from a foreign adversary but from within, a crisis that threatened the valu  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release on April 30, 2025: * * * Senator Collins Questions MDI Lab President on NIH Cap on Indirect Research Costs Washington, D.C. - At an U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing today chaired by Senator Susan Collins, she questioned Dr. Hermann Haller, President of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDI Lab), on how the proposed National Institut  more