The senators’ requests total almost half a billion dollars; most of the earmarks submitted by Reps. Pingree and Golden advance.
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New child tax credits offer lifeline for some Maine families
The monthly payments will go to some 230,000 Maine families, part of an expanded child tax credit approved by Congress under the American Rescue Plan Act.
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Kennebec County Republican Committee votes to censure Collins
While the move is only procedural and unlikely to affect Sen. Susan Collins, experts say it is part of a populist shift in the Republican Party from the local to the national level.
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Senators to brief Biden on infrastructure ‘framework’ after potential breakthrough in negotiations
‘There’s still details to be worked out,’ Sen. Susan Collins says, but lawmakers and White House aides believe major progress was made Wednesday.
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Rep. Jared Golden: Warship cut from Biden’s budget could mean shipyard layoffs
Golden said if Congress isn’t able to restore the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer cut from the president’s budget, the reduction may lead to about 500 layoffs to one of the nation’s shipyards.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Julien Xavier Neals to serve as a U.S. district court judge for the New Jersey district.
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For infrastructure deal, Biden eyes ‘multiple paths forward’
The president has started new talks with a bipartisan group of 10 senators working on a deal and welcomed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan effort from a group in the House.
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Sen. Collins says colleagues missed an opportunity to get to the bottom of Jan. 6 insurrection
Republicans in the U.S. Senate blocked passage of a bill that would have set up a nonpartisan commission to investigate the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol spurred on by former President Donald Trump.
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Sen. Collins leads effort to salvage legislation to create Jan. 6 commission
Many Republicans have still said they don’t trust that the commission studying the insurrection would be bipartisan, even though the panel itself and the staff would be evenly split between the parties.
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FBI probes campaign donations to Susan Collins
A spokeswoman for the US Senator’s campaign says Collins ‘had absolutely no knowledge of anything alleged in the warrant.’