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WASHINGTON – The For Country Caucus, a non-partisan group of military veterans serving in Congress and dedicated to working together in a nonpartisan way to create a more productive government, announced new leadership and a growing caucus membership for the 117th Congress.
Congressmen Jared Golden (D-ME-02) and Van Taylor (R-TX-03) will lead the caucus as co-chairs through 2022 as its ranks swell to 25 members. Congressmen Jim Baird (R-IN-04) and Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) will serve as vice-chairs.
During his campaign, President Biden said "[lobstermen] deserve better. And as President, I will work to protect the livelihood and safety of the fishing community."
WASHINGTON — In their first joint letter to President Biden, Maine's congressional delegation raised the alarm on misguided regulations that present an unprecedented threat to the state's lobstermen and lobstering communities, and urged the president to act on his promise to protect lobstermen's livelihoods.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) has been named a Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee. As Vice Chair, Golden takes on an elevated role on the subcommittee, which oversees naval acquisition and contracts for military shipbuilding performed at Bath Iron Works, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and other shipyards across the country.
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.