Chellie Pingree

Our residents are worried about inability to get insurance and mortgages on sea level rising, ocean acidification which hurts our shellfish industry.

I want to echo the concerns many of my colleagues have already raised about both the changes to the climate accord, the Paris Accord, and also just the cuts at the Department.

I hope that you will take that into consideration in your conversation with him.

There have been 5 years of this public dialogue and discussion.

Now we are in this, and we want to take advantage of the economic opportunity.

I am thrilled that you are going to be there because I think you will have an opportunity to see what a wonderful area it is.

There was a lot of public process.

I did not know and I was kind of disappointed to find out that it was the next day that it got added to the list.

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

I am concerned that there is nine programs that are zeroed out.

I do not have a lot of questions or comments to make.

The idea that we would be making cuts to an already underserved population is really unthinkable.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 95 Offered by Mr. Beyer The Acting CHAIR. It is…

Would you please give me a sense of how much time I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

We certainly support healthy forests. I represent the State of Maine, where we have a tremendous amount of forests and many people who work in the forest products industry, so we respect the value of this research. But it was fully funded…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 minutes.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri will be postponed. Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mrs. Lummis The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I continue to urge my colleagues to reject this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Smith). The question was taken; and the Acting…

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 minutes.

Moving forward, we could align with what most other countries do, and as Representative Pingree discussed, require a standard quality label on foods where freshness is a concern, and a standard safety label on foods that actually carry a…

The Food Recovery Act introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (H.R. 4184) tackles food waste from a variety of angles.

The recent Food Date Labeling Act introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (H.R. 5298) does just this.

Support the Food Recovery Act, introduced by Representative Pingree.

I introduced a bill last week that has a pretty simple proposal: create two labels--one that says 'expires on' for food that really is unsafe to eat after a certain date, and another that says 'best if used by' for everything else.

Recognizing the extent of this problem, USDA and EPA announced the first food waste reduction goal last year--a 50 percent reduction by 2030.