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The Maine State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. It is a bicameral body composed of the lower house Maine House of Representatives and the upper house Maine Senate. The legislature convenes at the State House in Augusta, where it has met since 1832.
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The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via plurality voting. The nonvoting members represent three of Maine's Native American tribes, though two ...
Ahead of Tuesday's election, Democrats held 23 seats in the Senate and 67 seats in the House, according to the Maine Legislature's website. Since 2009, the Senate majority has flipped four times ...
Jul. 30—Despite tensions between Gov. Janet Mills and her more liberal Democratic colleagues in the Legislature, the 2023 session produced major progressive victories and expanded social safety ...
The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine.The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than 31 nor more than 35". [1]
Native American tribes in Maine took an important step toward greater sovereignty as the state Legislature voted to let most federal laws apply to Wabanaki tribes, putting them on the same footing ...
The 2022 Maine House of Representatives elections took place on November 8, 2022, alongside the biennial United States elections. Maine voters elected members of the Maine House of Representatives via instant-runoff voting in all 151 of the state house's districts, as well as a non-voting member from the Passamaquoddy Tribe .