Collins is one of 33 senators to sign a letter in support of a bipartisan plan that mixes spending cuts and closing some tax loopholes.

The Democrats from Maine say that the GOP’s “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan is posturing that has no chance of passage.

State senators Kevin Raye and Jon Courtney are among those who say they’re mulling a challenge to Maine’s two Congress members.

WASHINGTON — A bill in the House authored by Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud of Maine aims to fill a multimillion-dollar shortfall in the federal reimbursement that Maine Veterans’ Homes receives for the cost of caring for disabled veterans.

A report by the Government Accountability Office says that many other countries aren’t effective at spotting or stopping terrorists from travel, and that U.S. efforts to help those countries are not as coordinated as they should be.

Veterans who have been victims of a sexual assault but have been denied benefits might want to reapply now, says Rep. Chellie Pingree.

Washington — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has chosen the Cary Medical Center in Caribou as one of five pilot locations nationwide for a program dubbed Project ARCH, for Access Received Closer to Home. The VA hospital in Togus will oversee the Caribou site. Maine lawmakers lauded the announcement, with Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd, […]

WASHINGTON — Scott D’Amboise, a Republican primary challenger to three-term U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, raised $117,394 during this year’s second quarter, according to his campaign.

D’Amboise reports raising $117,394 in the last three months, but that total is dwarfed by Snowe’s haul of just over $1 million in contributions.

WASHINGTON — Letting the Environmental Protection Agency complete its work as quickly as possible is a matter of life and death for proponents of new federal regulations limiting emissions from industrial boilers like those used by Maine paper mills.