Chellie Pingree Quotes
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Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.
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A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
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There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good paying jobs and reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
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The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.
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I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.
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I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.
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I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.
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As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for.
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For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
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Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.
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With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.
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Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.
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Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.