today I join my esteemed colleague, Senator Collins, in recognizing the 20th anniversary of Loring Jobs Corps Center in Limestone, ME. This center is a subsidiary of the Department of Labor's national Jobs Corps program, which provides…

I want to talk for a moment about Rob McCann. Rob came to our office in Maine a year ago as a fellow with the House Wounded Warrior Program. Just as he served our country in countless combat missions in Afghanistan, Rob is now serving…

I just think we need to be talking to the American people about the fundamental responsibility of any government, which is to keep its people safe.

To maintain a rigid budget structure in the light of those changes, it just seems to me is dumb.

The only thing more expensive than deterrence is fighting a war, and the only thing more expensive than fighting a war is losing a war.

I am puzzled why there is not more acknowledgment of the carbon benefits of nuclear power.

last March this body passed CARA, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. Unfortunately, at the same time, we didn't fund it. We didn't provide any additional funds to support the treatment and recovery of people throughout the…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Bill

I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Beyer) for yielding the time, and I also thank my colleague from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson) for speaking in support of this as well. I rise today in support of H.R. 4245, a bill that will end the…

There are millions of Americans across our country who are frustrated that Republicans and Democrats are not working together to get things done. Well, I can tell you that is not the case, Mr. Speaker, in the great State of Maine. During…

Scheduled Social Security benefits are by themselves inadequate for too many Americans.

We miss him a lot, and we do miss those charts because Senators need charts to learn.

That wage gap has implications for them, obviously, and their families, but I think it has implications for all of us.

Women in our State, in Pennsylvania, earned 79.2 cents on the dollar.

I was so pleased to join Senator Conrad on this important bipartisan commission.

He lacks the temperament, the judgment and the self-restraint to be our president.

Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous.

I have a lot of concerns about Hillary Clinton and I am not going to support her.