Chellie Pingree

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of…

— Chellie Pingree

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At…

— Chellie Pingree

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…

— Chellie Pingree

As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they…

— Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped,…

— Chellie Pingree

The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of…

— Chellie Pingree

For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a…

— Chellie Pingree

I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with…

— Chellie Pingree

During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free…

— Chellie Pingree

Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive…

— Chellie Pingree

One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom…

— Chellie Pingree

A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name…

— Chellie Pingree

Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and…

— Chellie Pingree

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without…

— Chellie Pingree

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

— Chellie Pingree

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was…

— Chellie Pingree

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

— Chellie Pingree

Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

— Chellie Pingree

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

— Chellie Pingree

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the…

— Chellie Pingree

I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

— Chellie Pingree

With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to…

— Chellie Pingree

Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

— Chellie Pingree

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message…

— Chellie Pingree

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went…

— Chellie Pingree