The facts compiled by the House committee are clear, yet Republican leaders and millions of voters choose to believe otherwise.
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Another View: Democrats should scuttle the debt ceiling before America hits the fiscal brink
The debt ceiling has routinely been raised over the years, a process that used to be uncontroversial. In today’s deeply divided Congress, that has changed.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: We have a rare opportunity to improve local libraries
A Senate appropriations bill includes $20 million in federal funding for library buildings nationally.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
After 187 years, the Cherokee Nation wants its seat in Congress
Almost two centuries after a treaty guaranteed it, the Cherokee Nation is pushing to have one of its members seated in Congress.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Top House staffers are still overwhelmingly white, study finds
The study notes that the House has moved to address the lack of diversity since the group’s last report in 2018, most notably by establishing a new Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Quick passage of electoral count reforms in doubt after House diverges from Senate plan
Maine’s Susan Collins led negotiations on the bipartisan Senate version of the bill, which aims prevent a potential repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection attempt.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Electoral count reforms championed by Sen. Collins on track to pass in Senate
There are 10 Republican sponsors for reforming the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which former President Donald Trump attempted to exploit to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Prospects fade for federal bill to expand rights of Maine tribes
The House passed Rep. Jared Golden’s bill to automatically include Maine’s tribes in any new federal Indian laws, but it appears to have stalled in the Senate.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Maine’s congressional delegation divided on Biden’s student loan debt relief
Pingree praises the move, Golden and Collins oppose it as benefiting college-educated Americans, and King suggests he’d prefer a different approach.
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Golden, Pingree join House Democrats in passing Inflation Reduction Act
Golden joined the rest of his party’s members in passing the legislation after being the only House Democrat to vote against the larger Build Back Better package that passed in the House but failed in the Senate last year.