PINGREE, CHELLIE (a Representative from Maine)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: prohibit Federal interference in interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form for human consumption between States that allow sale of such products (see H.R. 7880), H2476 [9MR]

——— provide for economic assistance to agricultural producers (see H.R. 7206), H2033 [4FE]

Animals: prohibit commercial greyhound racing, live lure training, and open field coursing (see H.R. 5017), H925 [16JA]

Armed Forces: remove from unauthorized hostilities against Venezuela (see H. Con. Res. 68), H253 [8JA]

CBO: study long-term economic impact of Trump administration immigration policies (see H.R. 7345), H2029 [4FE]

Children and youth: provide grants to improve trauma support services and mental health care for children and youth in educational settings (see H.R. 7497), H2185 [11FE]

Consumers: prohibit price gouging relative to goods subject to tariffs (see H.R. 6318), H1923 [30JA]

——— reinstate energy improvement tax credits, incentivize energy efficiency, assist low-income households with energy bills, crack down on price gouging, and ensure high-consumption facilities pay their own costs (see H.R. 7977), H2596 [18MR]

Courts: remove defense of qualified immunity in any action by State or local officials, including police officers, that violates legal and constitutionally secured rights (see H.R. 7046), H1352 [22JA]

Dept. of Agriculture: expand national organic certification cost-share program into comprehensive organic program (see H.R. 7318), H1948 [2FE]

——— improve Conservation Reserve Program by improving access to grazing, providing more enrollment options to producers, and addressing certain implementation issues (see H.R. 5365), H2033 [4FE]

——— increase reimbursement rate of school meals (see H.R. 5753), H656 [12JA]

——— transition Puerto Rico to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (see H.R. 5168), H2097 [9FE]

Dept. of Education: authorize States to develop directories of career and technical education programs of study and career pathways (see H.R. 7676), H2334 [26FE]

——— ensure children in schools have right to read (see H.R. 6440), H2677 [24MR]

——— provide for long-term improvement of public school facilities (see H.R. 7340), H2029 [4FE]

——— require institutions of higher education to provide or allow trained advisors for students facing disciplinary proceedings (see H.R. 5545), H921 [15JA]

——— reverse reductions in Federal loan availability for graduate and professional students (see H.R. 6677), H2484 [12MR]

Dept. of HHS: expand and improve Head Start Program (see H.R. 7637), H2234 [20FE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: establish certain limitations on Federal immigration enforcement personnel (see H.R. 5973), H253 [8JA]

——— making appropriations (see H.R. 7481), H2185 [11FE]

——— mandate reporting requirements pertaining to detainees in immigration detention facilities (see H.R. 7347), H2029 [4FE]

——— remove U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding allocated in One Big Beautiful Bill Act (see H.R. 7346), H2029 [4FE]

——— require all immigration enforcement officers to wear and operate body camera during public-facing immigration enforcement actions and promote transparency and accountability (see H.R. 5653), H616 [9JA]

Dept. of HUD: strengthen and standardize ‘‘first look’’ protections for covered properties to ensure families and communities have priority access to foreclosed homes (see H.R. 6962), H2221 [12FE]

Dept. of Labor: ensure that certain caregiving employees are no longer exempted from overtime and minimum wage protections (see H.R. 7917), H2482 [12MR]

Dept. of State: transmit certain documents to House of Representatives relative to administration’s stance on Greenland (see H. Res. 1001), H2477 [9MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Reproductive Health Services’’ (see H.J. Res. 144), H2712 [25MR]

Employment: allow employees to earn paid sick time to address their health needs, health needs of their families, or to seek assistance relative to domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault (see H.R. 7531), H2217 [12FE]

——— prevent workplace harassment, end mandatory arbitration and pre-employment non-disclosure agreements, expand civil rights protections, empower workers who report harassment, and eliminate tipped minimum wage (see H.R. 7583), H2224 [13FE]

EPA: promulgate certain limitations relative to pre-production plastic pellet pollution (see H.R. 7543), H2218 [12FE]

Executive Office of the President: establish Interagency Committee on Soil Carbon Research within Office of Science and Technology Policy (see H.R. 641), H2032 [4FE]

Federal agencies and departments: impose limits on excepting positions from competitive service and transferring positions (see H.R. 492), H2188 [11FE]

Federal employees: calculate cost-of-living adjustments for retirees under Federal Employee Retirement System in same way as those for retirees under Civil Service Retirement System (see H.R. 491), H2188 [11FE]

FERC: require standardized performance reporting for entities engaged in electricity transmission to improve transparency, accountability, and grid outcomes (see H.R. 6176), H895 [14JA]

Firearms: issue extreme risk protection orders to allow family or law enforcement to petition to have firearms temporarily removed from person who may present danger to others or themselves (see H.R. 7599), H2228 [17FE]

——— prohibit Federal licensee from selling or delivering certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles to person under 21 years old, with exception of active military and full-time law enforcement personnel (see H.R. 2368), H2032 [4FE]

Herbicides: prohibit use of Federal funds to implement Executive order entitled ‘‘Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides’’ (see H.R. 7601), H2233 [20FE]

Immigration: repeal provision to require certain State and local law enforcement cooperation relative to communication on citizenship or immigration status (see H.R. 7252), H1914 [27JA]

IRS: codify Direct File program (see H.R. 7806), H2420 [4MR]

Israel: prohibit funds made available for assistance from being used to support certain violations of international law (see H.R. 7545), H2218 [12FE]

——— prohibit use of U.S.-origin defense articles in West Bank and Gaza unless certain conditions are met (see H.R. 7645), H2257 [23FE]

Jackson, Jesse L., Sr.: fly U.S. flag at half-staff in honor of memory (see H. Res. 1107), H2471 [5MR]

Medicaid: repeal requirement that States establish Medicaid Estate Recovery Program and limit circumstances in which State may place lien on Medicaid beneficiary’s property (see H.R. 6951), H12 [6JA]

Medicare: improve access to diabetes outpatient self-management training services and require Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test virtual diabetes outpatient self-management training services (see H.R. 3826), H2221 [12FE]

——— provide for certain cognitive impairment detection in annual wellness visit and initial preventive physical examination (see H.R. 3501), H135 [7JA]

National Farmers Market Week: designate (see H. Res. 638), H949 [20JA]

National Museum of African American History and Culture: support African American history education programs (see H.R. 7740), H2332 [26FE]

National parks and recreation areas: prohibit use of image of living political figures on America the Beautiful—National Parks and Federal Recreation Lands Pass (see H.R. 7251), H1914 [27JA]

National Women in Agriculture Day: designate (see H. Res. 1124), H2621 [19MR]

NATO: prohibit actions or expenditure of funds to purchase NATO member country or NATO-protected territory (see H.R. 7088), H2336 [2MR]

Noem, Sec. of Homeland Security: impeachment (see H. Res. 996), H893 [14JA]

Postal Service: modify procedures for closure or consolidation of any post office or processing and distribution center (see H.R. 2103), H2677 [24MR]

——— require mail-in ballots to use barcode service (see H.R. 7265), H2677 [24MR]

Public utilities: add standard relative to consideration of large load facilities as class of electric consumers (see H.R. 7066), H892 [14JA]

Runaway and Homeless Youth Act: reauthorize and amend (see H.R. 3856), H2677 [24MR]

SSI: update eligibility (see H.R. 7828), H2470 [5MR]

Taxation: establish domestic cotton consumption credit (see H.R. 7230), H1950 [2FE]

——— exclude from gross income certain restored benefits received by public-sector employees (see H.R. 7361), H2030 [4FE]

——— expand deduction for student loan interest to include payments toward principal and increase value of deduction (see H.R. 7536), H2218 [12FE]

——— provide exclusion for assistance provided to certain veterinary student loan repayment or forgiveness program participants (see H.R. 2398), H1352 [22JA]

——— provide incentives and assistance to reduce cost of housing, energy, transportation, childcare, education, and health care, and to increase salaries (see H.R. 6900), H2033 [4FE]

Transgender Bill of Rights: develop and implement to protect and codify rights of transgender and nonbinary people under law and ensure access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security (see H. Res. 1058), H2186 [11FE]

Tucson, AZ: anniversary of shootings at ‘‘Congress on Your Corner’’ event and honor survivors, victims, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords for her work to end gun violence (see H. Con. Res. 69), H252 [8JA]

U.S. Geological Survey: reauthorize water resources research and technology institutes program (see H.R. 7889), H2623 [19MR]

Women: end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity and close disparities in maternal health outcomes (see H.R. 7973), H2595 [18MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Agriculture: amend Federal crop insurance program to improve education and risk management assistance (see H.R. 7947), H2530 [16MR]

Dept. of Homeland Security: provide for limitation on obligation of funds for certain immigration enforcement purposes until report on use of databases by immigration officers is submitted (see H.R. 7743), H2332 [26FE]

——— return identification documents to individuals upon their release from custody (see H.R. 7708), H2328 [25FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: authorize provision of produce prescriptions to veterans (see H.R. 7267), H1915 [27JA]

International Year of the Woman Farmer: designate (see H. Res. 1027), H1921 [30JA]

Constitutional authority and single subject statements

Dept. of Agriculture: amend Federal crop insurance program to improve education and risk management assistance (H.R. 7947), H2530 [16MR]

Dept. of Homeland Security: provide for limitation on obligation of funds for certain immigration enforcement purposes until report on use of databases by immigration officers is submitted (H.R. 7743), H2333 [26FE]

——— return identification documents to individuals upon their release from custody (H.R. 7708), H2329 [25FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: authorize provision of produce prescriptions to veterans (H.R. 7267), H1916 [27JA]

Remarks

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and the Interior, energy and water development, environment, science, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 6938), H201 [8JA]

Keliher, Patrick: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Captain David H. Hart Award recipient, E144• [20FE]

Trump, President: evaluation of administration relative to management of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, H1983 [4FE]

Watson, Annie: Maine Dept. of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commissioner’s Distinguished Service Award recipient, E68• [22JA]