Press Releases
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) announced that the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) has awarded 11 grants totaling more than $6 million to towns and organizations across the Second Congressional District. The projects — which include improvements to infrastructure, child care, education and more — will benefit communities throughout Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Oxford, Penobscot, and Washington counties.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement today marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which stripped women of the constitutional right to abortion care.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden announced that the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) has been awarded $1,299,377 in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch the Rural Energy Futures (REF) project. Through the REF program, 8th-grade students in rural communities across the state will learn math while exploring local energy issues.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) voted to pass the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) out of the House today.
WASHINGTON — Congressmen Jared Golden (ME-02) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) are once again leading the fight to oppose congressional pay raises, demanding that congressional leaders exclude proposed cost of living adjustment (COLA) for members of Congress from the FY2025 federal budget.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) is pushing to force a House vote on a bill to create statutory protections for an individual’s right to obtain and use contraception and enshrine the right of health care providers to provide contraception without interference from politicians.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) joined a bicameral effort today to push for the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce to level the playing field for American solar workers by supporting a set of antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed by the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee.
WASHINGTON — Reps. Jared Golden (ME-02), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), Mary Peltola (AK-AL) and Don Davis (NC-01) released the following statement today regarding President Biden’s new executive order on border security:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) is demanding answers from the United States Postal Service (USPS) about why the West Paris post office has remained closed past the agency’s estimated timeline to reopen in May.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement tonight following former President Donald Trump’s conviction by a New York jury on 34 counts of felony falsification of business records.