Jared Golden

The lobster industry has taken a big hit, and weaponization of the courts is, I think, the perfect way to put it.

Congress must work in bipartisan fashion to help better serve the forestry industry.

Any estimate at all on what the actual eligibility demand would look like if every logging contractor that needed help ended up getting some?

One bill out there, H.R. 2612, the RESTORE Act, introduced by my friend, Congressman Doug LaMalfa of California.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses about how policies can be put together here in Congress that will help them to be successful businesses.

I just wanted to talk a little bit more about some of what you were talking about with Representative Luria.

Let me just say, we're proud of the work that the shipbuilders did, they got it done.

This past December, Congress passed the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, which included section 21, I know you are familiar with...

I am concerned that... the current request before the committee cuts a Flight III DDG-51 [guided-missile] destroyer.

I guess the question is, given the fact that we rejected this as a body last year, what has changed?

As I am sure you know, the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, Congress opposed this move understanding that it could possibly result in a reduction of training hours, manpower, and base funding for existing National Guard aircrews.

Listening to the conversation has, at times, been a little frustrating and must be disheartening for some of our allies.

The Marine Corps job is to be ready to fight, fight today really.

When I was serving, I was in the 3rd Battalion 6th Marines and in the infantry unit.

I am not sure who outed me on the birthday, but I appreciate the well wishes. Madam Speaker, I thank the subcommittee chairwoman for her strong support on this issue. This is the second year in a row that the chairwoman and her committee…

It is important the Federal government recognizes how important they are to access to care.

I want to encourage you to look at the Restart Act introduced in the Senate by Senators Bennett and Young, and here in the House by myself.

I heard many times from my constituents that they are skeptical of Washington and suspicious of what they perceive to be its potential corrupting power.

Middle-of-the-road income for a household in my district is $48,000 a household. It is about a third of what a Member of Congress makes, and the people I represent wouldn't keep their jobs, let alone vote, to give themselves a raise, nor…

I think it falls far short of what that office should be capable of doing to help small businesses.

It was not until the middle of last year that the office received a director, essentially going over 20 years without any attention whatsoever.

Rural America encompasses about 72 percent of the Nation's total land and about $46 million residents.

I represent Maine. I have the second most rural district in the House of Representatives and the largest east of the Mississippi River.

Maine is I think per capital one of the least diverse, whitest states that we have in the country, very large, very rural.

I think that the growing distrust out there in the general public is about this concern about information and who has control over it.