I hope that the Administration will refrain from undermining our progress by floating rescission packages, musing about vetoes, or continuing to play politics with major infrastructure and safety projects.

Thanks to the increased budget caps, Senator Reed and I were able to include an additional $12.6 billion for THUD programs in the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus bill.

I certainly will look forward to seeing the draft. I think you, in fact, made a lot of good arguments about why Maine should be exempted.

I want to personally thank you for the inclusion of additional funding for training vessel replacement in the President's Budget Request.

we tripled funding for TIGER from $500 million to $1.5 billion in order to better meet our Nation's infrastructure needs.

For all of its talk about project streamlining, the Administration needs to streamline its own process and quickly deploy these dollars.

I certainly hope that we can continue this good work in 2019 as we evaluate the Administration's proposals and receive input from members on both sides of the aisle.

I personally don't want to see it edited to remove any reference to that.

Coastal waters are too precious to drill for oil.

I'm introducing three bipartisan bills to address this crisis.

we need to take an all-of-the-above approach to addressing the opioid epidemic.

I assess that risk as extremely high. I don't see what will prevent it from happening.

SNAP funding is critically important in Maine, where one in five children are food insecure.

This program has allowed our producers to greatly expand their markets and create more jobs at home.

I am hoping that we can take a look at the fiscal year 2019 budget and restore some funding in that area.

I am concerned that that is leaving American producers at a disadvantage.

I am concerned that the President's budget request would completely eliminate the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative.

I think this has been very upsetting to people in Maine.