Press Releases
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) introduced two bills this week to slow the flood of political money moving to social media advertising, fight the spread of disinformation, and help block foreign influence in American elections.
WASHINGTON — Just days after a large bipartisan group of House members led by Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) pushed President Biden's Department of the Interior (DOI) to take action, the agency announced
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and a bipartisan group of 89 House lawmakers are writing to Acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega to urge him to immediately reverse a slew of Trump Administration policy changes designed to impede and overburden the nation's leading public land conservation program.
WASHINGTON — Maine's congressional delegation this week asked the federal agency in charge of managing the nation's fisheries to extend its public comment period on its draft Biological Opinion (BiOp) on ten fishery management plans in the Greater Atlantic Region.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill Friday evening to invest $3.5 billion to expand apprenticeship opportunities across the country. The legislation, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021, included an amendment from Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) to make Maine's heritage industries — agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting — eligible to receive federal funding through the U.S. Department of Labor programs outlined in the bill.
WASHINGTON — Maine's congressional delegation wrote to the United States Department of Agriculture this week to express their concerns with the agency's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) guidance for nonindustrial private forest land (NIPF). In December 2020, the agency proposed a threshold for acreage at which a landowner qualifies as NIPF in NRCS programs, which the lawmakers note could hold back conservation efforts in the state and hurt logging, forest products, and outdoor recreation industries critical to local economies in rural Maine.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) today announced his intention to vote against sending instructions to committees to begin work on budget reconciliation unless congressional leaders agree to hold an immediate vote to pass funding to speed up COVID-19 vaccine distribution and production.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins and Representative Jared Golden led 19 of their colleagues in sending letters to the U.S.