A key Republican legislative leader says the nonpartisan audit shows that the state's elections are “safe and secure.”

Golden's letter to leaders of the Maine Legislature clarifies his views on the budget considered crucial to advancing President Biden's agenda.

With the legislation, the number of uninsured people under age 65 would drop from about 28 million to less than 24 million in a decade, according to the budget office.

Investments in the Build Back Better plan included expanding access to solar power in low-income communities, lead pipe replacement and cleanup of Superfund sites.

While Collins slams the bill as ‘a vast federal takeover of state elections,’ King says American democracy is in danger as Republicans refuse to even debate it.

President Biden more forcefully appeals to the American public, including in a televised town hall Thursday evening.

Even if the Justice Department does decide to prosecute, the case could take years to play out – potentially pushing past the 2022 election when Republicans could win control of the House and end the investigation.

While the Justice Department has historically been reticent to use its prosecution power against witnesses found in contempt of Congress, the circumstances are exceptional as lawmakers investigate the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2 centuries.

The current version of the bill would establish national rules for running elections, limit partisanship in the drawing of congressional districts and force the disclosure of many anonymous donors who spend big to influence elections.

Democrats are racing to seal agreement on the legislative package after laboring for months to bridge the president's once-sweeping $3.5 trillion vision preferred by progressives with a more limited focus that can win over party centrists.

Portland is once again debating whether to be Maine's first city to allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. But immigration experts warn of unintended consequences.

The president met privately into the evening with centrist and progressive lawmakers in separate groups as Democrats appeared ready to abandon a $3.5 trillion package for a smaller, more workable proposal that can win passage.

The committee's chairman says that while Bannon may be ‘willing to be a martyr to the disgraceful cause of whitewashing what happened on January 6th,’ the contempt vote is a warning to other witnesses.

The lawsuit takes aim at the core oversight functions of Congress, saying the records being sought by lawmakers are not for 'legitimate legislative purposes.'

Biddeford has undergone a transformation since bringing down its trash incinerator. But the city's popularity is pricing people out.

The citizen referendum, which asks voters to choose one of two policies or none of them, is in response to the city's plan to build a 208-bed homeless services center.

He again is suggesting something fishy happened. But he needs to brush up on his electoral college history.

In a new book, 'Midnight in Washington, How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could,' the Intelligence Committee chairman writes his personal, gripping account of Jan.6.

The ruling pushes the Texas law closer to returning to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The lawsuit stems from a Sept. 3, 2015, protest outside that same New York City tower over negative comments Trump had made about Mexico and Mexican immigrants.

With the calendar slipping toward a new deadline, the Democrats who control Congress are facing mounting pressure to reach a deal or risk the collapse of Biden's signature domestic policy undertaking.

The push for an overhaul comes as Texas and other states are putting in place new voting laws that critics argue are a return to Jim Crow-style restrictions making it difficult to cast ballots, especially in Black and minority communities.

Introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Chuck Grassley, the bill is widely viewed as a bellwether for the bipartisan efforts to pass tech legislation.

His defiance is a crucial moment for the House committee, whose members are vowing to restore the binding force of congressional subpoenas after they were routinely flouted during Donald Trump's time in office.

In Maine, that would include the New England cottontail rabbit.

The subpoena reflects the committee's efforts to probe the tumult that roiled the Justice Department in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot as Trump and his allies leaned on government lawyers to advance his baseless claims that the election results were fraudulent.

Maine's 1st District congresswoman said the bill is meant to restore balance to the nation's highest court.

Time is growing short for the president on what has been his signature domestic policy initiative, first unveiled in March and now having consumed much of his fitful first year in office.

Maine Senate Republicans have pitched a plan to give taxpayers a slice of the state’s monthly revenue that goes unused.

The president agrees to a request from Congress seeking sensitive information on the actions of Republican Donald Trump and his aides during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

After an initial burst of support, the president's approval ratings have falled significantly in recent months, notably among key Democratic constituencies.

Republican primary foe Mike Perkins says Poliquin ought to stay at his seaside mansion instead to 'twiddle his thumbs' or take on Chellie Pingree.

The president supports federal decriminalization of cannabis, but has yet to join the growing chorus of Democrats calling for full legalization. Not doing so would be a mistake, says a U.S. Senate candidate in a key swing state.

As many of members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have recently pointed out – President Biden's agenda is their agenda.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who is serving on a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, slams Steve Scalise for spreading Donald Trump’s 'Big Lie.'

The ads aim at AT&T, which donated more than $645,000 over the past two years to nearly 22 lawmakers who sponsored the measure. The company says it gave money to legislators on both sides.

The tension that has been building in recent years between an energized, aggressive progressive movement and more moderate city officials seems to have spiked in the last week.

To Democrats, he remains an infuriating rival who has shown again he is willing to break one institutional norm after another to pursue Republican power.

Parental protests that started during COVID-19 lockdowns are evolving into full-fledged takeover campaigns.

Congress eyes possible passage this fall of a resolution to repeal approval of war in Iraq, a rare step toward restricting presidential power.

The state 'is not representative of America,' former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez says.

The former president is asserting privilege over nearly 50 documents, and the jockeying between the two administrations, Congress and witnesses is certain to delay the investigation into the insurrection at the Capitol.

As the former president has waded into contested primaries across the country, trying to exact revenge and remake the Republican Party in his image, he has endorsed a series of candidates facing serious allegations.

A federal judge has ordered Texas to suspend a new law banning most abortions in the state, but that doesn’t mean abortion services will instantly resume.

The move sets the stage for a likely clash with House Democrats who are investigating the roles of Trump and his allies in the run-up to the riot.

It shows how Trump benefited from the support of a little-known Justice Department lawyer who championed the then-president's efforts to challenge the vote but how, in the end, other senior officials stood together to face down Trump.

The 50-48 vote in support of the bill to raise the government's debt ceiling by nearly a half-trillion dollars brought instant relief, but it provides only a reprieve.

A political newcomer is taking on a longtime Portland resident and former elected official for a seat on the Portland City Council representing the West End and Parkside.

But even with the law on hold, abortion services in the state may not instantly resume because doctors still fear that they could be sued without a more permanent legal decision.

In August 2012, the candidate argued that abortions wouldn’t be necessary for rape victims because, 'If it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.'