I have seen firsthand in Maine the difference that these courts can make in helping people straighten out their lives.

Our highly skilled paper workers in Maine can compete successfully whenever there's a level playing field, but they cannot compete when a foreign government is providing more than $100 million of subsidies to a mill that is manufacturing…

The closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility remains a top administration priority and a national security imperative.

What can the Department do to be more aggressive in prosecuting these scams which aggregate in the billions of dollars, and will you pledge that from now on the Department will cooperate with our investigations?

I would like to thank the Department and NOAA for supporting the Penobscot River Restoration project (over $20 million).

I hear repeatedly from police officers... about how essential the RISS Program is in their efforts to fight violent crime.

I ask that the Department as well as the U.S. Trade Representative... be very engaged with U.S. forestry stakeholders and the Canadian Government.

That was appalling to both the ranking member, Senator Claire McCaskill, and to me.

If sequestration were to come back in 2016, what impact would it have on the unit cost of the F-35?

I am pleased today to join my friend and colleague from North Dakota, Senator Heitkamp, in introducing the School Food Modernization Act to assist schools in providing healthier meals to students throughout the country. School meals play a…

Thank you, Chairman Cochran and Ranking Member Durbin, for holding this hearing to review the Department of the Air Force's fiscal year 2016 budget submission.

I know enough to defer to Senator Shelby on this issue regardless of who got here first.

if sequestration is not removed, the unit cost is going to go right back up

I am very concerned about the state of readiness of the Air Force

I totally share your belief that sequestration needs to go away permanently, and it would have devastating impacts if it does.

All of the women in the Senate share a common concern about the horrific problem of human trafficking right here in our country.

I have joined Ranking Member Leahy in reintroducing the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act.

No State is immune from the evils of sex trafficking and the stories of victims are simply shocking.

I wish to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Town of Woodstock, ME. Known today as a gateway to the rugged and beautiful Western Maine Mountains, Woodstock was built with a spirit of determination and resiliency that still guides the…

we have to face the facts that if we do not invest in Alzheimer's research at the levels the experts tell us is necessary to develop effective treatments for this disease or perhaps a means of prevention or eventually a cure, this disease…

Alzheimer's is a terrible disease that takes a tremendous personal and economic toll on the individual, the family, and society. In addition to the human suffering it causes, Alzheimer's costs the United States an estimated $226 billion a…

The Army Corps projects are particularly important in my State, and they play such an important role in local economies.

In the 112th Congress, I was an original cosponsor of a joint resolution that disapproved of a nearly identical rule issued by the NLRB.

The cuts are deep. The needs are great. And I hope we can work together to try to narrow the gap.

The president's budget request includes a $50 million cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Section 317 immunization program.