In Maine, we are reaching that aging milestone faster than most states. Within the next 2 years, our seniors will outnumber our children, 15 years ahead of the national projections.

I rise today to introduce legislation, with my colleague from Pennsylvania, Senator Casey, that would reauthorize the only federally funded programs specifically designed to develop a health provider workforce to care for older Americans…

Thank you. And let me just remind you that it rains far less often in Maine than it does in Washington State.

One of the main metrics for gauging our progress in developing a health care workforce to care for older adults is a certification in geriatrics.

Obviously, we want to build a workforce to provide geriatric care and ensure that older adults, and their families in rural America, are provided with the resources that they need to care for aging loved ones.

Yesterday, I introduced a bill with Senator Casey, the Geriatrics Workforce Improvement Act, which would reauthorize the GWEP programs and reinstate the Geriatric Academic Career Awards program.

These programs work.

Yesterday, fellow Mainers and law enforcement officials from across our great State gathered in Augusta to add one more name to the Maine Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Wall: Nathan Desjardins. The number of names on the memorial wall…

I thank my colleague Mr. McGovern for yielding me the time and doing such a wonderful job on a very challenging bill. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my strong opposition to the current version of the farm bill. There are many reasons…

For instance, Josh uses the Organic Certification Cost Share Programs to help cover the cost of certification, which helps him get more for his product. The funding for this and many other programs is endangered in this farm bill. Over the…

I thank the gentleman for those kind words. I would agree with him, Maine is the greatest State in the Union. I know he didn't say that, but I know he meant that. Mr. Speaker, Maine is the home of the most honest, hardest working people…

I thank my colleague from Washington State for yielding me the time and for speaking against this amendment. Mr. Chair, I am sorry to say to my colleague from the other side of the aisle, we oppose this amendment, which would remove money…

I rise today to express my support for the nomination of Gina Haspel to become the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ms. Haspel is an accomplished intelligence professional who will bring 33 years of experience to her new…

the partnership we have with other countries--Israel, the U.K., South Korea, and others--is really important as we continue to support production of the F-35.

We need to make sure all of our rural hospitals in the State of Maine and throughout the country get paid, and this bill says if they are not paid within 30 days, then interest starts accruing on that. This is a great win for our veterans…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a great day, a great week for America. Here we are celebrating not only our great veterans, who have given us our freedom and our way of life, but also our great police officers, who…

I thank Mr. Perlmutter for yielding, and I thank him for, really, the eloquent conversation he has been having for the last half an hour about the extreme importance of the investigation that is going on and recognizing the fact that this…

every morning, across America millions of people get up, get dressed, and go to work. They all have similar experiences. They are getting ready for a new day. They are getting ready for a new set of challenges. They are getting ready to…