Chellie Pingree: “Eighty-six percent of our State is forested, and I think that might be the highest percentage of any State.”

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.

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.

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

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