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Washington D.C. – Following a bipartisan push from U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new nationwide waiver that will allow schools and other meal sites to continue serving nutritious meals to all children for the remainder of the summer. Without an extension, this program would no longer have been available to more than 60 percent of Maine children currently receiving these meals.
Maine Coast Fishermen's Association, Maine Lobstermen's Union, Maine Lobstermen's Association call Golden's legislation "necessary," "common-sense", and could "provide desperately needed resources"
WASHINGTON — As Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) report record demand for their no-cost business advising and training services during the COVID-19 pandemic, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Small Business Committee called on Senate committee leaders today to pass the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act.
Reps. Pete Stauber (MN-08), Dwight Evans (PA-03), Jim Hagedorn (MN-01), and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS) joined Golden to urge the Senate to Act.
Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and 11 of his colleagues introduced the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act in the House of Representatives today. The landmark bill, companion legislation to a bill expected to be taken up in the Senate next week, would permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and provide funding for the long-overdue maintenance backlog at Acadia National Park.
LEWISTON — Ahead of President Trump's arrival in Maine tomorrow to visit Puritan Medical Products and hold a roundtable with representatives of Maine's fishing industry, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement:
Today, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement:
Washington, D.C.—Maine's Congressional Delegation wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to call for improvements to be made to the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, which is purchasing up to $3 billion in fresh produce, dairy, and meat products to distribute to those in need.
WASHINGTON — Following Congressman Jared Golden's (ME-02) efforts over the past two months to improve the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses that had struggled with the relief program, the House passed the bipartisan PPP Flexibility Act yesterday.
WASHINGTON — Maine's congressional delegation took action this week to protect nonprofits — which employ one in every six workers in the state — from federal guidance that would lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexpected, upfront costs for many nonprofit organizations. In a letter to U.S.
Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement announcing his decision to vote against H.R. 6800, the Heroes Act: