Month: November 2019

As a member of Maine’s Economic Growth Council, I am looking forward to this report and eager to support this plan in the upcoming legislative session.

I worked to ensure that the state budget included language giving specific direction to the development of this plan.

• Maine is about to release its first 10-year economic

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Marked the installation of a large array solar panels at The Blaine House on an auspiciously bright sunny afternoon yesterday.

Here — joined by my colleagues, Speaker Sara Gideon, Seth Berry, Stanley Paige Zeigler, Vicki Wenzel Doudera, and Hannah Pingree — Governor Janet Mills is signing an executive order directing state agencies to develop plan …

Especially in the absence of federal leadership, states must be able to regulate carbon emissions. I am glad that Maine is a partner in this effort.

• California, Maine and 21 other states widen challenge to Trump administration car rules, Press Herald, 15 Nov 2019

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Here are my remarks from today’s press conference on immigration reform to mark today’s Supreme Court hearing on DACA and immigration legislation that is now stalled in the US Senate:

As in many other parts of the state, businesses in my district face increasingly acute challenges to find employees. These challenges are frequently exacerbated by …