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In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.

I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine.

I told Platner directly he should 'step aside.'

No other state offers this combination of Arctic proximity, deep-water access, shipbuilding and repair capacity, and Arctic expertise, and Maine is ready to deliver for the Service and its crews.

As the Coast Guard makes homeporting decisions for the cutters still to come, I urge you to make Maine a top choice.

Geography makes the case on its own. Maine is the closest point in the continental United States to the Arctic, giving an Atlantic-based cutter the shortest transit to its operating areas.

The decision to build out an 11-ship fleet is a generational investment in American presence in the high latitudes, and Maine offers the Coast Guard an ideal Atlantic homeport from which to project that presence.

I write to urge that the State of Maine be selected as a homeport for the Service’s new Arctic Security Cutters.

For too many working parents in Maine, finding affordable childcare is the difference between being able to stay in the workforce or not – and it begins with a shortage of providers.

Americans are sick and tired of status quo politics.

Because the perseverance is what really brought us to this day.

We don’t know when. This week, we’re seeing extraordinary weather across the country that’s going to be hitting us in a few days, and so we just have to be ready.

A healthy democracy depends on broad participation, and this bill will continue to make that participation easier—not harder.

The Right to Vote Act would establish clear protections for voters and help ensure that every eligible American can demonstrate this sacred right in our elections.

Free and fair elections are the foundation of participatory government, and any threat to the democratic process is a threat to our democracy itself,

I think it’s important for us to focus on the issues facing working families a little bit more than Graham Platner’s marriage.

The election-day statutes require the electorate's choice to be made on election day. That occurs so long as election day is the deadline for individuals to vote—as it is in Mississippi," Barrett wrote.

Along with the draft rule, we are equally opposed to the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act because it codifies the same harmful reductions in benefits for veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea benefits.