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Issue record
Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
Campaign positions
Her campaign says she has fought to expand access to workforce training so Mainers can secure good-paying jobs, and that as Appropriations chairman she has secured federal money for workforce programs. It states no position on tax rates.
His campaign's priorities include taxing billionaires, making corporations pay what it calls their fair share, and tax cuts for the working class. At a Labor Day event he said every full-time worker should have guaranteed paid time off.
Evidence timeline
official action
At a Labor Day event, in words his campaign republished, he said: we passed paid family and medical leave in Maine. Maine's paid family and medical leave program was enacted in the 2023 state budget, as Part AAA of Public Law 2023, chapter 412. The Senate enacted the budget 22 to 9 on July 6, 2023 (Roll Call 484) with his Yea vote, and the Governor signed it on July 11. The Maine statutes credit the program's provisions to that Part. The stand-alone bill on the subject, LD 1964, sponsored by Senator Matthea Daughtry, died when the Legislature adjourned. Limit: "We" fits how it passed: as one Part of a budget that 22 senators voted for, not as a bill of his. The record shows his vote and the enactment. What the program pays and when benefits began are set in the statute and were not checked here.
official action
Her campaign says she was the author of the Paycheck Protection Program, and that the program saved and protected more than 250,000 jobs in Maine. The program was created by section 1102 of the CARES Act, Public Law 116-136, which the Senate passed 96 to 0 on March 25, 2020 and which was signed on March 27. Its forerunner, small business loans that could be forgiven, was in S. 3548, the Senate Republican bill Mitch McConnell introduced for himself and six committee chairmen; Collins is not among them. The Congressional Record names her as one of its authors. In June 2020 the majority leader called Marco Rubio and Collins the program's chief architects and thanked them for authoring it, and in April Ben Cardin said it was negotiated by Rubio, Collins, Jeanne Shaheen and himself. In September 2020 she sponsored S. 4773, the Continuing the Paycheck Protection Program Act. Limit: The Record makes her one of the program's authors, not its only one: the majority leader names Rubio beside her, and Cardin names four senators who negotiated it. Those are colleagues' statements on the floor, not a drafting record; no committee document assigning the drafting was found. The jobs figure rests on Small Business Administration loan data this desk did not read.
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