For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees'… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share
