Angus King: “If retention is the goal, one of the ironies is that as you have gaps and you have longer hours and--that is a vicious…”

Our democracy remains healthy only when those who constitute it have their voices heard, and this bill will protect their ability to do so.

Our sailors and Marines signed up to serve and to be treated with respect. They did not sign up to be kept at sea indefinitely with no announced return date and, by multiple accounts, without reliable food, hot water, or working plumbing.

I believe, as I said, that it should be coordinated with and, the information should be shared with local and, and state officials, with the attorney general's office, with the governor's office.

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