Michaud backs the package, but Pingree is one of 41 House Democrats to vote against it. In the Senate, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe both cast votes for passage.

A family from Cushing got quite a jolt today when they walked into the Blue Room on a tour to be greeted by First Lady Michelle Obama and the first dog Bo.

Ron Paul’s campaign manager is telling media outlets that the Republican presidential candidate doesn’t need a recount of the Maine caucuses’ non-binding presidential straw poll. Spokesman Jesse Benton said even with the current vote tally, he’s confident Paul will still win a majority of the state’s 24 delegates to the Republican National Convention when all […]

The budget released this morning calls for $3 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program – still far short of the $4.7 billion granted in 2011.

WASHINGTON — The campaign of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and his supporters say the libertarian-leaning Texan was robbed of victory Saturday night when Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the Maine Republican Party’s presidential caucuses.

WASHINGTON — The campaign of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and his supporters say the libertarian-leaning Texan was robbed of victory Saturday night when Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the Maine Republican Party’s presidential caucuses.

Maine would lose about $80 million in federal highway funding under a House transportation bill expected to be voted on as early as this week, according to Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd District.