Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced today that Maine farmers have been awarded a total of $8,588,357 to date to help offset the financial harm they have experienced due to COVID-19. The funding is provided through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), created through the CARES Act, which will provide up to $16 billion in direct payments to deliver relief to America’s farmers.
Over the last five decades, Maine has received more than $191 million in funding from LWCF
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins cosponsored the Back to Work Child Care Grants Act of 2020, legislation introduced by Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to provide assistance for child care providers in Maine and across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If enacted into law, the provision would support microchip manufacturers like ON Semiconductor and Texas Instruments in South Portland, which employ hundreds of Mainers
In Maine, timber harvest expected to be down over 20 percent in 2020 due in large part to COVID-19, Androscoggin Mill explosion
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02), Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07), and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to provide relief to family logging and log hauling businesses that have been seriously impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting economic crisis. Senator Angus King (I-ME) is a co-sponsor of the bill.
Senator Collins: ‘Many in our state’s Black community are immigrants from Somalia, Congo, and other African countries, as well as from Haiti. Expanding our state’s overall testing capacity and reaching these individuals are critically important to staying ahead of this virus…’
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Chairman of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, announced today that the Casco Bay Island Transit District (CBITD) has been awarded $3,200,000 to purchase a diesel electric hybrid propulsion system to power its soon-to-be constructed new vessel. This funding was awarded through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) competitive Passenger Ferry Grant Program.
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator Susan Collins urged the inclusion of a two-year extension and expansion of the medical expense deduction as part of the next COVID-19 relief package.
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