The Senate passed the Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act to improve health care and services for veterans exposed to toxic substances.
Susan Collins
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Maine lawmakers urge Navy to name Bath-built ship after fallen Mainer
Maine lawmakers and Gov. Janet Mills have asked the Navy to name a destroyer after Master Sgt. Gary Gordon of Lincoln.
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Letter: Susan Collins has an ethical obligation to denounce Trump
Sen. Collins, stand up for ethics and make sure this racist stain has no place in the Republican party. Trump admitted recently that he wanted Mike Pence to overturn the election. One that he had lost by some 7 million votes and 74 electoral votes. He promotes the lie that there was fraud that kept […]
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
The Senate passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (H.R. 4445), which had passed the House in a roll call vote earlier in the week.
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Capitol riot not ‘legitimate political discourse,’ Maine Republicans say
But congressional hopefuls Bruce Poliquin and Liz Caruso stop short of saying Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
The Senate has passed a resolution condemning the military coup that took place on February 1, 2021, in Burma and the subsequent detention of civilian leaders in the country.
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Collins knocks Biden for handling of Justice Breyer’s replacement
‘I welcome the appointment of black females to the court and believe that diversity benefits the Supreme Court, but the way that the president has handled this nomination has been clumsy at best,’ the senator from Maine said Sunday.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
The House has passed the Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility Act, to change procedures for local educational agencies to apply for federal Impact Aid funds in fiscal 2023.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Anne Witkowsky to serve as the State Department’s assistant secretary for conflict and stabilization operations.
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President Biden signs defense bill with potential work for Bath shipyard
This year’s defense spending bill approves three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which Bath Iron Works can bid to build.