Michael Michaud News

It looks like Michael Michaud just lost his political cover for backing Nancy Pelosi's $1.2 trillion government healthcare takeover.

On the eve of a landmark health care reform vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, protesters gathered outside the offices of Rep.

Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.

As Congress debated on the current health care bill in Washington DC, before the vote.

Union leaders in Maine are calling on U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud to endorse a health care bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives.

Maine health officials are reporting the state's first swine flu death since August.

Democratic moderates who will determine the fate of much of President Obama's domestic agenda heard an early warning from this week's off-year elections: Congress had better do something about the economy, or sitting lawmakers will lose their jobs in 2010.

USDA Rural Development State Director Virginia Manuel and Congressman Michael H. Michaud recently celebrated 11 Maine recipients of the Renewable Energy for America Program at an event held at the Weston Farm, in Litchfield.

Already-skittish moderate Democrats in Congress got fresh reasons Wednesday to worry about their votes on economic and health care legislation from the election results in Virginia and New Jersey.

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Maine Gov. John Baldacci on Tuesday urged residents to vote against repealing the state's same-sex marriage law while acknowledging his past opposition to gay marriage.

Closed since Friday, Oct. 16, the historic Memorial Bridge, which links Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine, appears to be in the final stretch in its race against time.

The Consumer Electronics Association applauds Representative Kendrick Meek for his decision this week to withdraw support from the Michaud Bill, which seeks an overhaul of existing trade agreements.

All four elected members of Maine's congressional delegation have joined the state's top elected official in requesting federal relief for the state's shellfish industry.

OXFORD a ' A planner for a proposed stage and theater at the Oxford fairgrounds says organizers plan to apply for a grant of up to half a million dollars to facilitate the project.

Congressman Mike Michaud praised House passage of the conference report on H.R. 2892, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010.

WASHINGTON, D.C. : In a conference call on Thursday with Gov. John Baldacci and the Maine congressional delegation, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced an $8 million grant to the University of Maine.

Rep. Sharon Treat, D-Hallowell, joined other state legislators in meeting President Obama on Wednesday, Oct.

Calvary Tabernacle Pastor Rev. David Ferrell of Perth-Andover will be realizing one of his childhood dreams this week when, as guest chaplain for the day, he opens the U.S. House of Representatives with a prayer on Thursday morning, Oct.

Funding for the Northern Border Regional Commission, which 2nd District Rep. Mike Michaud is working hard to secure, might seem only to empower another group whose members will sit around a table and wring their hands about Maine's economic plight.