Chellie Pingree

Women and men who had experienced military sexual trauma came to my office seeking help as a desperate last resort.

Thank you for focusing attention on proper compensation for those who have suffered sexual trauma during their military service.

I thank my colleague and friend, Chairman McGovern, for yielding me this time. Mr. Chair, I rise to support Chairman McGovern's amendment. As members of the Food is Medicine working group, one of our priorities has been highlighting the…

Organic agriculture is based on practices that not only protect environmental health, but also strive to improve it.

I am also a certified organic farmer, so I am well aware of these challenges...

I really appreciated all of your remarks and testimony.

This week we recognize the 75th anniversary of D-Day, and we recognize a Mainer who helped to liberate France and then Europe from Nazi control in World War II during the invasion of Normandy. Charles Norman Shay is a Penobscot Tribal…

I thank the chair for yielding the time, and I want to thank my friend, colleague, and fellow New Englander, Mr. Cicilline, for his courage, his perseverance, and, frankly, his political talents at moving this bill forward and bringing us…

I really appreciate the work that is being done to help people understand the important role the farmers play in carbon sequestration.

Farmers really need to be our partners in climate solutions.

The programs that you administer and the work that you do is critically important in my State of Maine.

I thank Mr. McGovern for his good work and for yielding me the time. Greenhouse gas emissions did not happen in isolation. They have widespread impact and will not be curbed without global coordination. The Obama administration understood…

The benefits that other Tribes have seen from allowing Tribal jurisdiction over domestic violence cases include: increased public safety for all of those living on Tribal lands, increased community conversations about domestic violence…

I thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania for yielding me the time. I rise today in support of the Violence Against Women Act of 2019. I want to thank the chair of the Judiciary Committee, and I want to commend the chair of the…

Thank you to everyone on the panel, and I yield back to the chair.

VAWA protections are critically important for our tribe.

Thank you also to Ms. Chellie Pingree for always taking the time to learn our issues and advocate for the tribal nations located in Maine.

H.R. 1, our voting rights, ethics package, and campaign finance reform.

I think that the reorganization of ERS jeopardizes some of the scientific integrity by injecting politics into the work.

I am one of the people who doesn't support the proposed relocation and reorganization of the two USDA agricultural research agencies, NIFA and ERS.

I do not feel like it has been a transparent process.

Stakeholders have suggested to me that the ERS reorganization was proposed because research coming out of the agency didn't align with the administration's views on topics such as SNAP or climate change.

I have a lot of concerns about the proposed relocation and reorganization of NIFA and ERS, and I think every Democrat on this subcommittee and I have expressed our opposition to the plan.

I am really appreciative of how the tribe comes together as a community and uses traditions from the community to engage people at all levels.

I am actually about to submit a bipartisan bill on ocean acidification which I worked on before.