The federal government must renew waivers for programs that increase access to school meals amid the coronavirus pandemic, Maine’s Democratic representative said. Rep. Chellie Pingree joined more than 100 members of Congress in a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture would have to act on aid that President Donald Trump said should go to the besieged lobster industry under language inserted in a spending bill by Rep. Chellie Pingree. The Democrat from Maine’s 1st District...

The U.S. House cleared a massive $1.5 trillion package Wednesday that backers said would not only shore up the nation’s crumbling infrastructure but also create jobs at a time of widespread unemployment, protect the planet from a warming climate and...

Maine U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree is among the more than 200 Democratic co-sponsors of the bill that was unveiled Monday in the House and Senate. House Democrats in the House and Senate, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top...

As the owner of a small farm, I’m frequently amazed at how little Washington understands the work that goes into putting food on our plates, but coronavirus has made it impossible to ignore the labor of grocery store employees, farmers,...

A $19 billion aid package for American farmers will provide direct support to producers and massive purchases for the country’s food banks. The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, is intended to stabilize...

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) joined 86 members of Congress on April 1 in introducing the All Dependent Children Count Act, a bipartisan bill to guarantee college students and adult dependents will receive the one-time COVID-19 relief payments authorized by the CARES Act,...

The World Health Organization first raised warnings of a global scarcity of PPE — the gloves, respirator masks and face visors that medical staff wear to prevent contracting and spreading disease — in early February.  Now, nearly two months later, there is...

Lawmakers led by Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, are asking a federal agency to delay the operations of a planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside Portland, which would temporarily detain immigrants suspected of immigration violations. They are pushing for more transparency,...

Tonight, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree was re-elected to the U.S. Congress for a sixth term. She won in a race among three candidates, which, for the first time in a federal general election, was decided using Ranked Choice Voting. Congresswoman Pingree,...