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WASHINGTON — In a hearing this week before the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) urged Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday to provide consistency regarding the Navy’s production goals for the DDG-51 and questioned whether their proposed procurement strategy would produce a shipbuilding workforce capable of meeting the Navy’s needs as it continues to build DDG-51 ships and eventually transition to the next-generation DDG(X) destroyer.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) voted today to pass the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act. This bipartisan legislation, which was cosponsored by Golden, would ensure that federally-employed firefighters receive the same access to job-related disability and retirement benefits as their peers who are state, county, or municipal firefighters.
WASHINGTON —The Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy announced this week that Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) has earned a ranking of 7th out of 435 members on their Bipartisan Index for the 117th Congress (2021-2022). The Bipartisan Index is a non-partisan measurement of how often members of congress work across party lines.
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of military veterans today called on the House leadership to ensure passage of a comprehensive aid package to Ukraine. In the letter, the lawmakers urged leadership not to combine Ukraine aid and COVID-19 relief funding.
WASHINGTON — Last night, the House of Representatives passed Congressman Jared Golden’s (ME-02) bipartisan legislation to help more small businesses across the country launch, grow, and retain workers through the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02), Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) and Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13) sent a bipartisan letter to Ways & Means Committee leaders urging them to permanently extend the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) in the America COMPETES Act as they negotiate the final version of the bill with the Senate. A Golden-backed provision to make the program permanent was included in the House-passed version of the legislation.
WASHINGTON — This week, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) revealed the winners of the 2022 Congressional Art Competition for Maine’s Second District. Students from Auburn, Bangor, Harrington, Lewiston, and Rangeley were all selected to be honored, with first place going to Hannah Wojdakowski from Bangor High School.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and Congresswoman Abigail D. Spanberger (VA-07) led a bipartisan group of 19 of their House colleagues to call on House Administration Committee Chair Zoe Lofgren and Ranking Member Rodney Davis to take action to advance legislation to ban members of Congress from trading or selling individual stocks.
WASHINGTON — Following the introduction of the bipartisan COPS on the Beat Grant Program Reauthorization and Parity Act by Congressman Jared Golden and three of his House colleagues, the 56-member House Problem Solvers Caucus endorsed the bill this week. The legislation would nearly triple available funding for the COPS program to over $1 billion in FY2022, reauthorize the program for ten years, and specifically expand access to the grants for rural communities.