Press Releases
WASHINGTON — A week after passing legislation to provide $1 billion in crucial low-interest loans to small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) urged the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make public detailed criteria, a timetable, and an outreach plan for the loans as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and Senator Angus King (I-ME) announced today they are introducing bipartisan legislation in the House and Senate to provide Gold Star Families with free access to National Parks and other federally managed public lands. Gold Star Families are the immediate family members of servicemembers who have died while serving.
BANGOR — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) used his district work period last week to meet with constituents in Bangor, Lisbon Falls, and Rangeley, holding roundtables with local small businesses, hearing from Mainers helping their fellow community members recover from substance use disorder, and celebrating the opening of a new small business in Lisbon Falls.
WASHINGTON — A one-year extension of the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) is now law following successful efforts by Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) to include the legislation in the most recent government funding bill. Dozens of retirees from the Twin Rivers Paper mill in Madawaska have used the tax credit to access affordable health care, and over 200 current workers at Twin Rivers could become eligible when they retire. The HCTC was set to expire at the end of 2019, leaving dozens of former workers at the mill without access to affordable health care.
WASHINGTON – Responding to the request for two fiscal year 2021 Arleigh-Burke class (DDG-51) destroyers —a ship built at Bath Iron Works in Maine—in the President's FY 2021 budget request, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden released the following statement:
WASHINGTON — Maine's congressional delegation called on the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) this week to take steps to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale from ship strikes and questioned the agency on why it has failed to address the threat ships pose to whales.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) announced today that Chris Wiers, the president of Bath Iron Works' (BIW) Local S6 union, will join him for Tuesday's State of the Union address. Local S6, an affiliate of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), has more than 3,500 members. Wiers, a resident of Lewiston, was elected president in 2019.