Sen. Susan Collins threatens legislative action if the USDA doesn’t revise proposed guidelines that limit white potato servings in school lunches.

Nancy Torresen is likely to be confirmed, replacing Judge D. Brock Hornby on the U.S. District Court.

The combined bid by Bath Iron Works for two Burke destroyers wins out over a rival Mississippi shipyard.

  WASHINGTON — Bath Iron Works has won a $680 million contract to build a new Arleigh Burke Navy destroyer and triumphed in a competition with a Mississippi shipyard for the right to build another one, according to Maine lawmakers. The two new DDG-51 destroyers are separate from an up to $2 billion contract finalized […]

Bath Iron Works pursues other viable markets – wind energy, foreign contracts – to lessen its reliance on the U.S. Navy’s needs.

Such a move will help create jobs, she says in the weekly national Republican address.

The Maine senator says a one-year moratorium would halt the imposition of “crushing new regulations” that are hurting the economy.

President Obama will give states flexibility to devise their own ways to measure student progress.