Chellie Pingree: “I hope we can coerce you into making some changes in this budget as we move along.”

And they know they’re going to lose the midterms.

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…

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

I’ve had others say, ‘When you take over, you need to investigate the s— out of what’s going on with the corruption in this government and all the things that have been dismantled.