Chellie Pingree: “I am alarmed by allegations concerning weak enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act.”

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.

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.

I strongly oppose this amendment that would cripple the EPA's ability to exercise its criminal enforcement function by preventing EPA criminal enforcement from being able to issue warrants, make arrests, or carry firearms. I am truly…

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