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Chellie Pingree

American Politician

Born: Apr 2, 1955

Cause Congress Internet Neutrality People Politics

Related authors: Alexander Hamilton Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Benjamin Franklin Bernie Sanders John F. Kerry Nancy Pelosi Robert Kennedy Shirley Chisholm

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities. Chellie Pingree

Good Opportunities Energy Those Steady Rates Economic Maine Advantages Beyond Renewable Renewable Energy Predictable Capitalize Electric Extend Position

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. Chellie Pingree

Environmental Home Change Wind Building Pay Farm Incredibly Project Faced Small Costs Could Between Fees Up Offshore Going Going Home Difference Oil While Mean Them Packing Certain Companies Amount Gas Start-Up

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day. Chellie Pingree

Day Three Community Live Island Ferry Times Goes Served

In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda. Chellie Pingree

Home Seen State Spend Maine Anonymous Issues Dollars Campaign Fit Donors Against Agenda Home State Groups Millions Millions Of Dollars

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors. Chellie Pingree

Money Example National Congress Down Corporate System Follow Small Clean Voices Maine Empowering Donors Legislators Interest Turn Elections Should Fortunate Special Special Interest Level

Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them. Chellie Pingree

Vote People Important Corporations Telling Purpose How Them Serve

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. Chellie Pingree

People Phone Internet Believe More More And More More People Open Reach Make Sure Access Mobile Getting Should Paying Users

The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority. Chellie Pingree

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. Chellie Pingree

Work Hate Words World Inspire Increasingly Message Acceptable Send Persuade

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what she loved to do - meeting with her constituents in a local setting, allowing people to speak to her directly about the issues that concerned them. Chellie Pingree

Good People Speak Good Friends Setting Local Meeting Out Has-Been Constituents About Directly Brutally Allowing House House Of Representatives She Concerned Doing Issues Been Friends Representatives Loved Them Shot Her

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. Chellie Pingree

Long Big Too Favor System Has-Been Simply Developers Generous Biased Deals Lease Permit Been Reviews Big Oil Subsidies Often Oil Process Sweetheart Regulatory Slanted Gas

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded. Chellie Pingree

People Philosophy Tend Maine Open-Minded Fair

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies. Chellie Pingree

I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money going out of our community, out of state, and even out of the country, the wind turbines bring the promise of decades of steady rates with the money staying right here. Chellie Pingree

Money Better Wind Country Community Every Think Increasing State Our Our Community Month Out Promise Solution Staying Steady Rates Haven Instead North Decades Going Expensive Electric Paying Bills Even Found Right Bring Here

We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all. Chellie Pingree

Law Internet Will Neutrality Important Congress Net Open Equal Principal Make Access Insure Priority Intact Elect Keep Need

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. Chellie Pingree

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union. Chellie Pingree

Government Day Phone Thought First See Something More Could Mail Never Like Obtaining Read Court Without Sounds Private Soviet Listen Soviet Union Happened Conversations Warrant Union

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. Chellie Pingree

Work Love Home You Remember Other Everything Jobs About Week Come Around Gotta Just Centered Washington Fought Floors Last

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. Chellie Pingree

Health Democracy Our Taking Most Proud Am Issues American Central

Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment. Chellie Pingree

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One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization. Chellie Pingree

Politics Freedom Speak Cause Organization Out Constrained Return Leave Politically Common Common Cause Regain Wanted Reasons Position

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