Chellie Pingree

It’s just an outrageous use of the taxpayer dollars.

I never take any campaign for granted.

They took taxpayer dollars that were being invested in important projects that would have brought down the cost of energy for all of us and our communities, and they paid bribes and they paid out to utility companies to get them to turn in…

I look forward to taking the debate stage, speaking directly to Maine voters about the issues that matter most and making clear what’s at stake in this election.

So many questions remain, and his family deserves to know how this happened. His family, his community, and the state of Maine need to know who will be held accountable.

And they know they’re going to lose the midterms.

They (Republicans) know we’re non-functional.

I’ve had others say, ‘When you take over, you need to investigate the s— out of what’s going on with the corruption in this government and all the things that have been dismantled.

I’ve had Republicans say to me, ‘I’m not that worried about the Medicaid cuts because you guys are going to take over and you’re going to fix it,

Secretary Bunch has guided the Smithsonian through a period of unprecedented political interference while remaining committed to scholarship, expertise, and the public trust.

More than a month later, there are still so many basic questions that remain unanswered by ICE and the Trump administration.

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero should be alive today.

This proposed rule would weaken longstanding civil service protections that promote merit-based employment, due process and the recruitment and retention of skilled workers.

We, therefore, ask you to withdraw OPM and MSPB’s proposed rule, 'Promoting Employee Accountability,' and consider alternatives that preserve federal workers’ longstanding civil service protections.

By stripping away the procedures that keep discipline fair for civilian employees doing the work of naval readiness... the proposed rule introduces costly unpredictability in the workforce and needlessly undermines readiness.

Moreover, as Members of Congress who represent nearly eight thousand civilian workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, we are concerned about the proposed rule’s impact on workers essential to our national security.

We’ve gotta stop this, we’ve gotta stop ICE operations in Maine, but in the meantime we have to fight for each and every person who is allowed to be here and who is our friends and neighbors and coworkers.

When a federal facility reaches the point where its very presence undermines the public confidence and leaves residents feeling less safe, the federal government has a responsibility to reconsider if that facility belongs there at all.

In my view, that question deserves serious consideration from the Department of Homeland Security.

It’s hard to even say this, it’s horrendous they are operating the way they are in our state, and we absolutely have to get to the bottom of this.

This shooting would NOT have been justified.

We do not want ICE to cut off the state [from the investigation] in any way.

We actually have had a few meetings with the Forest Service, but they’re extremely vague, and our experience has been that even the heads of departments and services don’t always know what (the Office of Management and Budget) and the…

There’s just not a lot of places to turn, and with huge budget impacts hitting everybody next year, I’m really worried about what’s going to happen with programs like this.