AUGUSTA — Shortly after a legislative hearing focused on the failings of mental health care for Maine veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general issued a report hailing improvements by the VA’s Maine Healthcare System. All four members of the state’s congressional delegation said in a joint statement they were “pleased to see improvement” […]
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Poliquin, Pingree agree to cite North Korea for terror sponsorship
Both of Maine’s congressional representatives voted recently to call North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. North Korea was taken off the list of terrorism sponsors in the final year of President George W. Bush’s administration as part of a deal to try to improve relations, a move that lifted some sanctions against the country. […]
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Bruce Poliquin bill seeks to help seniors stay in their homes
Hoping to lend a hand to aging Americans who want to stay in their own homes, a bipartisan measure proposed in the U.S. House would offer tax credits to help make necessary improvements more affordable. Pushed by U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a Republican from Maine’s 2nd District, the bill would provide homeowners with up to […]
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Poliquin, Collins should explain
Why have Rep. Bruce Poliquin and Sen. Susan Collins voted in favor of a bill which will allow broadband internet service providers to accumulate and sell data about their customers’ internet viewing habits? The bill was passed by both chambers of Congress and now awaits signing by the president. It would allow for potentially serious […]
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Bruce Poliquin seeks to unmask finances of Iran’s top leaders
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin speaks Saturday at the christening of the USS Thomas Hudner at Bath Iron Works. With a more sympathetic occupant in the White House, U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin is trying again to shine a light on the assets held by many of the leaders in Iran. The Maine Republican has often castigated […]
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Congressman Bruce Poliquin hasn't said how he will vote on GOP health bill
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage and legislative Republicans have pushed for changes now melded into their party’s national health care bill. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin pushed for others at a White House meeting on Tuesday. But with a vote expected in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday and top Republicans ruling out more changes that they […]
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Poliquin's party comes first
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin ran on a pledge to work for his constituents, but now when it counts, he is missing-in-action. By endorsing the Republican plan to upend the Affordable Care Act, he has broken that pledge. Sadly he is putting his constituents second to the ideological needs of his party. We have all heard […]
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Working poor will suffer
The verdict on the Republican plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act is out. The Congressional Budget Office agrees with the Kaiser Family Foundation and other nonpartisan public health analyses that the Republican plan would cause millions of Americans, and tens of thousands of Mainers, to lose health insurance in its very first […]
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Trump's budget raises concerns among Maine's lawmakers
President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget doesn’t impress Maine’s Democratic member of Congress or its independent senator. And Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin has concerns. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a 1st District Democrat, said she won’t stand for Trump’s “foolish and shortsighted budget proposal which will make America less healthy, safe, and economically secure.” U.S. […]
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Representatives addicted to power
It is a very sad day when the realization hits home that Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, along with Reps. Bruce Poliquin and Chellie Pingree and their fellow princes and princesses in their Washinton fiefdom, really believe that they are serving the best interests of “we the people.” The proof is in the results, […]