Chellie Pingree: “I appreciate very much your having this hearing today, and I am glad to be here with my colleagues.”

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

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,

It’s a bad picture to start.

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…