Rep. Chellie Pingree

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381 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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Then they have to bond themselves out and wait for a judge's approval.

It can take months.

It can cost thousands of dollars to families that don't have them.

And then you get released because you didn't do anything in the first place.

But they, you know, they lock you up.

They meet their quota for the day.

It's it's so un-American.

It's so against the freedoms of our country.

And it's a ridiculous waste of the taxpayers dollars that should go to like health care, keeping our hospitals afloat.

Well, the Waterville Hospital closed in the last year.

Waterville's in my district.

The hospital in Damariscotta is pending closer of its maternity ward.

There's been incredible consolidation in the hospital industry in our state, which we don't have any for-profit hospitals.

These are nonprofit hospitals.

But it's really hard to make ends meet.

And the pending cut for Medicaid that the Republicans did in order to give

the richest people in our country, a big tax cut, that's a trillion dollars that will kick in

after the midterm elections.

So they're trying to keep it covered up from people so they don't think about it in the midterm elections.

But that's just going to be holy hell, really, in states like mine, but also in rural states all over the country and urban states.

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