The Maine House and Senate will convene for legislative session at 10 am on Tuesday, as uncertainty over the supplemental budget persists, a joint conference of both chambers is scheduled to hear about the state of higher education in Maine, and two largely symbolic but potentially contentious resolutions are on the agenda. LD 209, the

Tuesday’s legislative session is shaping up to be a lively one. Representative Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) has snuck in a Joint Order to defund the Maine Principal’s Association if it continues to allow men to play in women’s sports. The MPA is the governing body of school athletics in the state of Maine. They have stated

The House Calendar is out for Tuesday’s legislative session the begins at 10 am. Given that Democrat leadership has cleared the legislative calendar of all previously-scheduled business, it is likely to be a long day of budget battles, and potential censure of Republican members. For off-color relief, there’s even the chance of an expletive laden

The Maine Legislature returns to work on Monday after a week of vacation, and it is expected to have a busy agenda with what may be an especially dramatic Tuesday as both chambers revisit the unfinished question of Governor Janet Mills’ $118 million supplemental spending measure, and the House considers censure motions against two representatives.

Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) announced on Friday thirteen new appointees for the 24-member Office of New Americans Advisory Council, which the Mills administration created by executive order eighteen months ago. At the time it was first introduced, the council came into being without direct legislative approval, and

After reaching the next-to-last step in passing a $120 million supplemental spending package, Democratic leaders put off a final vote late Monday night for an additional two weeks. The Maine House of Representatives gaveled in at 7:13 pm on Tuesday and almost immediately adjourned for until 10 a.m. Tuesday, February 25th at 10am. The development

Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her Democratic allies in the Legislature are poised to once again invoke an extraordinary parliamentary maneuver to pass a major spending package without Republican votes. The process, which has never before been used to pass a supplementary spending bill, is necessary in order to make up for an unexpected shortfall

Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) and Senate President Mathea Elizabeth Larson Daughtry (D-Cumberland) will name members of special councils and committees as the Maine Legislature proceeds with its 132nd session this week. The most notable of the council appointments is to the Office of New Americans Advisory Council. The first appointments to the

10:55am State House, Augusta This morning the Maine Senate took up the nomination of Heather Sanborn to be Maine’s next Public Advocate, and approved her by a four vote margin. One Republican crossed the aisle to support Sanborn and two Democrats voted against their leadership to oppose her nomination. The Public Advocate represents Maine’s utility

The Maine House of Representatives is scheduled to convene Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Augusta. Late January House session days are usually pretty quick, lasting an hour or maybe a little more. The bulk of the calendar is filled with new bills being referred to their respective committees for public hearings, work sessions, and eventual