The races in Maine’s two congressional districts are about health care, taxes and who can best represent our state in Washington. With all those things in mind, the Editorial Board endorses Rep. Chellie Pingree in the 1st Congressional District and...
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Keep up with the latest statements, press releases and events from the campaign.
October 21, 2018
Voters in Maine’s 1st Congressional District have three distinct choices for their representative in Congress. Democrat Chellie Pingree is running for her sixth term representing the southern and coastal district. Republican Mark Holbrook, a psychologist, is challenging Pingree for a...
October 11, 2018
End Citizens United (ECU) today endorsed Representative Chellie Pingree for re-election in ME-01. A champion of campaign finance reform, Pingree has been fighting to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision since the day it was decided. “Rep. Chellie Pingree has been a...
October 5, 2018
The Senate is poised to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court tomorrow. I’m feeling so many emotions right now, and it’s tough to sort them out. I’m enraged. I’m deeply sad. But most of all, I’m completely heartbroken for...
September 28, 2018
A boost from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has helped Maine organization CEI to receive a $600,000 federal grant that will allow Junora, a manufacturing company in Biddeford, to create 30 new jobs in the city. The funding was awarded by the...
July 19, 2018
The Maine congresswoman co-sponsors legislation that would allow agents to stop vehicles without warrants within 25 miles of the border instead of 100 miles under current law. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree is co-sponsoring a bill to shrink the size of...
July 5, 2018
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned while under investigation for serval ethics violations. Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is happy to see him go, tweeting “good riddance.” Pingree has been urging Pruitt to resign for months, at one point confronting him...
June 26, 2018
Pingree is pushing to up organic standards and get more funding for organic programs in the farm bill. When it comes to getting things done, Chellie Pingree does not mind getting her hands—or, clearly, her feet—dirty. As an organic farmer...
June 23, 2018
The Maine representative and 24 Democratic colleagues inspect facilities where separated parents and children are being held. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine said she and her colleagues saw upsetting scenes of children and families in cages, and met breastfeeding...
March 17, 2018
Many members of the US House of Representatives run businesses in their home districts. Few of those enterprises can offer you a half-dozen oysters and a glass of wine, or send you home with an array of locally grown vegetables....