Chellie Pingree: “I appreciate the comments my colleague from the other side of the aisle made about the 1099 issue and the impact with…”

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…

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.

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.

The Interior bill we are considering today includes 92 poison pill riders in the base bill that cripple environmental protection, undermine climate change policies, add to the national debt, and include discriminatory riders targeting…