federal budget

The Maine Republican, who is chairwoman of the budget-writing Senate Appropriations Committee, said the panel would hold an aggressive schedule of hearings on the White House's plan to cut more than $160 billion from federal programs.

The majority of the legislature’s State and Local Government Committee has voted against passage of a resolution that seeks to insert a balanced budget…

AUGUSTA, Maine - Budget writers in the U.S. House have completed work on their version of the federal budget for the year, starting Oct. 1. But Collins,…