Chellie Pingree

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.

It just seems like it would be a horrific time to lose those research capacities and also give up the body of research that we already have.

Many of us felt like there was a lot of momentum behind us.

The Republicans have now given the president six times the normal amount of money to run the Kennedy Center, carte blanche over who will be on the board, and how different parts of the Kennedy Center − or perhaps the whole Kennedy Center…

The Republicans snuck in, I think, something that is slightly divisive, which is renaming one section of the Kennedy Center after a family member of this administration.

The Republicans snuck in something that’s slightly divisive, which is renaming one section of the Kennedy Center after a family member of this administration.

This is about farmers making ends meet.

I thank the ranking member for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I oppose this full-year continuing resolution and urge my colleagues to reject it. If we vote ``no'' and reject this CR, then we can go back to work and negotiate a…

The people impacted by this funding freeze are hardworking, rural Americans and small businesses.

Maybe my colleagues have heard of New York Fashion Week, which was at the beginning of this month, but this week is New York Climate Week, giving us an opportunity to spur climate action. The fashion industry is a massive, $2.5 trillion…

On October 25, 2023, America's gun violence nightmare became a living hell for the people of Lewiston, Maine, and everyone who calls our State home. At 6:54 p.m., a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle walked into a bowling alley and fired…

This amendment would be detrimental to the Forest Service's ability to maintain quality fisheries and safe public drinking water. Decommissioning of roads is a critical tool in the management of the National Forest System that allows the…