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Common Core Doesn’t Add Up
Growing up within the public school system, I dreaded the days or weeks...
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Free Trade and Free Markets – They’re The Same Thing!
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may disagree on a number of issues, but...
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Mainers Should Get the Option to Vote on Marijuana
By now, you’ve likely heard of the lawsuit regarding the disqualified signatures on...
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Say Goodbye to Two Billion Dollars
The signature “achievement” of Obama’s Presidency, Obamacare, was dealt yet another major blow...
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Who’s the Real Enemy Here, Anyway?
Being a movie buff, one of my favorites is Monty Python’s Life of...
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Honoring the Women Pilots of World War II
This March, as our Nation celebrates the lives and accomplishments of women throughout...
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Part III: Federal Employee Compensation Reform
In 1959 I began my pursuit of a BS degree in Electrical Engineering....
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Is Trump Good for Libertarians?
Donald Trump is no libertarian. From his nationalistic views on immigration and trade...
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Elected Office Can’t Buy Class (And please, leave your small hands out of the debates)
This past week our country was saddened to hear former first lady Nancy...
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14 Solutions to Our Broken Health Care System
As I travel through our Second Congressional District, some of the most frequent...
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We Should Have Been Farmers
“The mark of a healthy, dynamic market is having new firms constantly challenge...
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Part II: Suggesting the Obvious – Starting at the Beginning, and the Top
Sometimes, seemingly intractable problems need to be addressed with ‘brute force.’ That is,...
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President Obama Puts Extreme Agenda Over National Security, Again
This past week, President Obama demonstrated, yet again, that he puts his party’s...
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Deficits, Debts, and Drug Addiction
A three part series on chronic abuse of other peoples’ money Part I: The...
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Maine’s Sportsman Tradition
As an avid outdoorsman, a proud gun owner, and a member of the Congressional...
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Protecting Our Seniors
In the next decade and a half, our country’s senior population is expected...
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Repairing the Government-Business Relationship
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with dozens of business owners about...
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Dancing on Scalia’s Grave Doesn’t Make Society Better
On Saturday, the country was stunned when reports began to surface saying that...
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This is About Maine Jobs
Our Great State of Maine is known for many unique industries and trades,...
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As goes Maine, so goes the Nation
Congratulations conservatives, we’ve done it. If Maine is truly a bellwether state as...
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The Cost of Federal Regulations on Maine Businesses
According to the Small Business Administration, the annual cost of federal regulations on...
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Conservatives Gaining Ground in Maine
Today, Gallup released the Analysis of Political Party Affiliation at the state level...
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Supporting Maine’s Small Businesses
My number one focus as Maine’s Second District Congressman is job creation. Congress...
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FACT Report Finds Fault in Castro Endorsement
A non-partisan ethics watchdog group, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT),...
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The Fight Against the Heroin Epidemic
One of the most serious problems that Maine and our Nation face today...
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FDA Bureaucracy Hinders Potentially Life-Saving Treatments
There is a humanitarian movement growing momentum right now at the state level referred...
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Posik: Hillary’s Exploitation of Maine
When you’re a conceited, self-centered elitist like Hillary Clinton, you often believe you...
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Schaeffer: Updating the Filibuster Conundrum
More than three years ago, The Maine Wire ran a brief item of...
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Frary: December Duds and Dillies
In December 2015, the Republican majorities in Congress reached agreements with their Democratic...
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Posik: The biggest problem facing America is… definitely not climate change
While President Obama endlessly carries on in Paris about the global threat of...
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New Study: Obamacare Fails to Meet Expectations
According to a new study put out by the Mercatus Center, the Affordable...
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New Study: Maine Manufacturers Suffer From Above-Average Taxes
According to a recent report from the non-partisan Tax Foundation, manufacturers in Maine...
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Sigaud: Is Trump Part of Hillary’s Strategy?
There are two common interpretations of Donald Trump’s campaign for President. The first views...
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Nancy Pelosi Proposes Lowering Voting Age
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), speaking at the Generation Progress Summit last week, voiced her...
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Obama to Mandate More Overtime Benefits
Last week, the Obama Administration announced a proposal that would make nearly 5 million...
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Supreme Court Upholds Federal Obamacare Subsidies
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the...
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North Carolina Tax Revenues Increase After Tax Cuts
State tax revenues in North Carolina have increased roughly 6% this year, despite...
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Money in politics? No problem.
There will be no problem with money in politics this year. Such problems...
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FGA Report Highlights Enrollment Explosion Under Medicaid Expansion
On Wednesday, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) released a report highlighting the...
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Poliquin: More Jobs, More Opportunities and More Freedoms
For generations, hard-working Maine families have balanced their checkbooks at the kitchen table....
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Emily Cain Announces Dismal Fundraising Numbers
Shortly after Maine Congressman Bruce Poliquin released his fundraising numbers for the first...
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Congressman Bruce Poliquin Raises $700,000 in First Quarter
Maine Congressman Bruce Poliquin has a strong start to a re-election bid come 2016,...
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Maine Ranks 42 in Latest ALEC Economic Index
On Wednesday, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released the 8th edition of Rich States,...
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Congressman Poliquin Pushes Back Against Shady FDIC Practices
Last week, the House Financial Services Oversight and Investigations subcommittee held a hearing...
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Senate and House Republicans Look to Reconcile Budgets
Early Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed their first budget since 2006. The vote...
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Poliquin: ObamaCare Continues to Hurt Mainers
As I have repeatedly said, too many of our hard-working families and small...
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Obama Likely to Use Veto to Help Unions
On Thursday, Congress passed a resolution aimed at limiting so-called “ambush elections” for...
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House Republicans Release Budget Proposal
On Tuesday, U.S. House Republican leadership unveiled their conservative budget proposal that seeks...
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Fighting to Defend the Second Amendment
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...
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Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in King v Burwell
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell,...
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DOJ Report Accuses Ferguson Police Dept. of Acting Like “Collection Agency”
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released their report on civil rights...
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Rep. Bruce Poliquin: My First 60 Days in Congress
Over the last 60 days, I have finally settled in to all my...
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Investigators Looking into Missing IRS Emails
On Thursday, investigators announced that they had discovered over 30,000 emails related to...
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Problems Continue to Plague Obamacare
On Friday, the Obama Administration admitted that approximately 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers have received...
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Poliquin Explains Controversial Obamacare Vote
Representative Poliquin, whose vote this week against repealing Obamacare provoked backlash among grassroots...
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Congressman Poliquin Grills FHFA Director Mel Watt
Bruce Poliquin isn’t wasting any time getting his feet wet in Washington. Yesterday,...
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Forgetful Democrats Irrelevant in Budget Battle
Liberals in Maine and Washington, D.C. are suffering a new psychological condition, one...
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Maine Paid Jonathan Gruber for Obamacare Advice
MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, the architect of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA),...
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When Elections Fail Us We Have One Last Resort
Now that the elections are over and all the negative TV ads are...
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Medical professionals condemning LePage quarantine policy are Michaud donors
A group of medical professionals submitted a letter to Maine’s newspapers warning against...
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O’Keefe exposes election shenanigans in North Carolina
Conservative muckraker James O’Keefe has struck again, this time in North Carolina, where...
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“A Time for Choosing”
Monday marked the 50th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s famous speech, “A Time...
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School Choice Goes Digital with Virtual Charter Schools
Public education is getting a 21st Century shake-up. Back in September, Maine’s very...
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Power, Money & Politics: The Case For Term Limits
In my previous article Why Elections Cannot Fix Washington D.C., I demonstrated that...
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Michaud on Ebola: Give West African immigrants Medicaid
At Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the Democratic candidate, suggested U.S. policymakers...
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3,289 Mainers lose health insurance plans due to Obamacare
More than 3,000 Mainers are set to lose their current health insurance plans...
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Poliquin, Cain draw national attention
The race for Maine’s Second Congressional District between state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono)...
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Cutler, LePage and Michaud Debate
PORTLAND – The three candidates in Maine’s hotly contested race for governor gathered...
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Steyer’s NextGen flops in Maine
Mainers are familiar with S. Donald Sussman — the billionaire hedge fund manager...
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Michelle O comes to Maine
ORONO – First Lady Michelle Obama touted the health of the U.S. economy as...
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Why Elections Cannot Fix Washington D.C.
As our nation continues to spiral out of control and those we elected...
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92,584,000 Americans not in work force; Unemployment Rate at 5.9 percent
The national unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in September as the percentage of Americans...
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Cato Institute ranks LePage among top four U.S. governors on fiscal policy
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., released its...
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Bellows ties Collins to Ted Cruz
PORTLAND – Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Shenna Bellows sought to tie incumbent...
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Big Labor drops money bomb for Michaud
A top union boss spoke out in favor of Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael...
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Maine Senator blasts Obama admin for obstructing public watchdogs
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins blasted President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday for...
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Collins: Most illegal immigrants are teenage boys
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, fresh off a trip to Texas she organized to expect...
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Maine political players attend conference for shadowy Democracy Alliance
When a group of left-wing millionaires and billionaires held a secret meeting in...
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Wage equality eludes offices of Maine’s Democratic Members of Congress
Liberals across the country joined President Barack Obama to celebrate National Equal Pay...
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Collins blasts Obama State Department on Benghazi
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its bipartisan...
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Pingree urges defense spending she voted against
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree signed a letter last week urging her colleagues in...
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Collins: Democrats have fundamentally changed the U.S. Senate with partisan filibuster change
The U.S. Senate has a unique and longstanding tradition of open, unlimited debate. ...
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Pelosi, Pingree and Michaud vote against funding for veterans benefits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid the shutdown turmoil in the nation’s capital city, 33...
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Pingree: Republican House members holding Americans "hostage"
Not to be outdone by Sen. Angus King, who has likened conservatives to...
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Maine’s Congressional Delegation on Syria
Following President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional approval for a potential military...
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National Media Chimes in on Sussman-Pingree-Media Conflict of Interest
Last Wednesday, US News & World Report ran an opinion piece by Peter Roff describing...
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Sen. Collins: IRS's abuses part of pattern in Obama administration
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal...
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Sen. Collins: IRS targeting conservatives "absolutely chilling"
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to...
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Hatchetgate: Lawyer behind allegations against LePage has ties to potential 2014 opponents
AUGUSTA – The lawyer who helped fuel sensationalist claims about Gov. Paul R....
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Pingree Votes Against Bill to Fund Defense Projects in Bath, Kittery
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) broke with the rest of Maine’s congressional delegation on...
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Feds Send Mixed Signals on Sequester, Medicaid
Two letters from the Obama administration to Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage paint...
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Ag Secretary Visits Portland Following Leak to Pingree, Press Herald
PORTLAND – U.S. Agricultural Secretary Thomas Vilsack on Thursday visited the Barbara Bush...
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M.D. Harmon: Surprise! Sequestration happened and world did not end
News reports told us of an odd and tragic circumstance recently when a...
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Poll: LePage very unpopular—but could win anyway
Paul LePage is one of the most unpopular Governors in the country. Only...
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Senator Collins: "Working on Behalf of Maine"
By Senator Susan Collins It is a privilege to represent Maine in the United...
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Collins releases report: "Flashing Red: The Bottom Line in Benghazi"
By Senator Susan Collins While our country spent September 11, 2012, remembering the terrorist...
