Asking Quote by Chellie Pingree

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Chellie Pingree