WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Falmouth, Cumberland Students to Attend US Service Academies, Pingree Announces Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced that the two Maine students she nominated to attend U.S. Service Academies have both been accepted. Falmouth High School senior Samuel Yoon will attend the Air Force Academy in Colorado and Greely High School senior Riley Record will attend the United States Military  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Pingree Reintroduces Bipartisan Legislation to Boost Trade and Deepen US-Iceland Economic Partnership Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Congressman Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) reintroduced the Iceland Commercial and Economic Leadership for Arctic and National Development (ICELAND) Act. This bipartisan legislation would add Iceland to the list of nations eligible for investment and trade in t  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release on May 6, 2025: * * * Senator Collins Questions Secretary of Agriculture on Delayed USDA Funding, UMaine PFAS Center of Excellence Washington, D.C. - At a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2026 budget request for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, questioned Secretary of the U.S. Department  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * SENS. HYDE-SMITH & KING INTRODUCE 'SAVE HEALTHCARE WORKERS ACT' Bipartisan Bill Would Set First Federal Criminal Penalties for Violence Against Healthcare Workers WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Angus King (I-Maine) on Monday introduced legislation to address escalating incidences of violence against healthcare workers by establishing federal criminal penalties  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * VA Secretary Stonewalls King When Asked About Cancelled Contracts WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), in a hearing of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), pressed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins to provide some details about the 585 VA contracts he has announced he plans to cancel nationwide. The hearing comes two months after Senator King wrote a   more