WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Golden's bipartisan permitting reform bill passes House Natural Resources Committee * WASHINGTON Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) today celebrated the House Natural Resources Committee's passage of his bipartisan Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act, which he first introduced with Republican Chairman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) in July. The bill, which would modernize  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King, Collins Urgently Request Certainty on Tariffs for Maine's Forest Products Industry * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are urgently requesting tariff relief for Maine's forest products industry. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Trade Representati  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 20 [Category: Education] -- The National Association of State Boards of Education posted the following news release: * * * NASBE Membership Elects New Leaders to Its Board of Directors * Alexandria, Va. The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) is pleased to announce the election of new leaders to its board of directors. Byron Ernest, a member of the Indiana State Board of Education, was elected as NASBE's chair at the close of the organization's  more

PORTLAND, Maine, Nov. 21 -- The University of Maine School of Law issued the following news: * * * Protecting Indigenous Intellectual Property: Maine Law Hosts the 5th Annual Indian Law & History Lecture More than a century ago, Passamaquoddy singers gathered around a wax cylinder recorder--an unfamiliar new machine brought onto their homeland by visitors from Harvard University. They sang war songs, dance songs, and family songs meant to travel only within their own community. Those fragile   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: * * * Unprecedented Number of Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol in Maine * HOULTON, Maine The U.S. Border Patrol's Houlton Sector achieved a historic milestone in fiscal year 2025, surpassing all previous apprehension records. As of October 1, agents apprehended 725 individuals illegally present in the United States, exceeding the prior record of 685 apprehen  more