2026 Maine US Senate Voters Guide

Mixed. Introduced a bill to codify abortion rights, with protections for providers with “religious objections to performing abortions.” Voted against an abortion rights bill; said it did not include “conscience protections.” Overturning Roe v. Wade was a “radical jolt to the country.”

Legal. “I support a strong federal guarantee of the right to choose.” Called the anniversary of Roe v. Wade “a grim reminder that freedom of choice has been stripped from millions of women.”

Mixed. Sponsored a bill to ban offshore drilling in Gulf of Maine. Voted to fund battery production; holds “great promise in the fight against climate change.” Voted to open up 1.7 million acres of public lands for coal leasing. Voted against $369 billion in clean energy investments. Voted to not maintain existing wind & solar tax credits. Voted to extend the residential clean energy tax credit.

Yes. “Will fight for urgent action on climate change. We see it;…without sustained action, everything is at risk.” Would “invest heavily in building a new clean energy supply and a modern grid to bring power where it’s needed,” with “a huge buildout of domestic clean energy production.” Getting “off fossil fuels…would make America self-sustaining.”

After George Floyd’s death, sponsored a bill to use incentives to increase use of body cameras, improve training, and diminish chokeholds, without requiring such reforms. Voted against funding local law enforcement hiring programs.

No position found.

Mostly increase. Calls for expanded access “to robust workforce training.” Introduced a bill to end trade practices that undercut American specialty crops. Voted for $1 trillion in new infrastructure projects, including road repair, bridges, broadband internet, and rail lines. Voted to not put funds toward building 7 million homes.

Increase. Calls for publicly funded programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps to rebuild “our crumbling infrastructure.” Says public investment is necessary to solve the housing crisis. Would launch a “National Whole Home Repair Program…to cover the full range of work that would bring old housing into the present.”

Mostly tighten. Voted to keep a 20-year protection against mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Voted against opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil drilling. Voted to undo controls on companies that emit seven major hazardous pollutants.

Tighten. Would “stand up against efforts to dismantle the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.” Says both acts should be strengthened “so that enforcement against massive polluters…does not depend upon the whims of whoever happens to be President.” “We definitely need to protect public lands.”

Tighten. Voted to expand background checks, add serious dating partners to laws that bar domestic abusers from purchasing guns, and implement red flag laws. Introduced a bill making it a crime to act as a straw purchaser of guns; would reduce violence “without infringing upon…rights.”

Tighten. Supports red flag laws that “don’t impede the ability of legal gun owners to have access to their firearms.” Says a three-day waiting period “is a bit excessive” but supports it if that’s what Mainers want. Supports extreme risk protection orders & universal background checks.

Mostly increase. Voted to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. Introduced a bill to raise taxes on ultrawealthy income earners to help rural hospitals facing Medicaid cuts. Introduced a bill to lower the cost of insulin. Voted against the Big Beautiful Bill because of “the harmful impact it will have on Medicaid.” Voted against allowing government negotiation of Medicare drug prices.

Increase. Says healthcare “is a human right.” “No one in America need go bankrupt over an illness.” Calls for an end to “the power of the private insurance industry over our government.” Would “oppose ANY cuts to Medicare and Medicaid” and “work to pass improved Medicare for ALL.”

Voted for $70 billion to fund ICE, and then nearly $70 billion more for ICE and CPB. Voted to rescind billions of dollars in ICE funding and put those funds to Medicaid. Voted to transfer ICE funds to fund DACA applications, and voted against redirecting ICE funds to child care block grants.

Calls for an end to “the mass deportation machine.” “ICE as an organization needs to be dismantled.… We need to rebuild how we do immigration enforcement in this country.” Wants “strong border security and a path to citizenship. We cannot do one without the other.”

Mixed. In March, voted against limiting Trump’s power to wage war in Iran without congressional approval. In April, at the 60-day mark, supported an effort to end the operation. “Further military action against Iran must have a clear mission.”

No. Would “fight to stop this senseless war… Nobody wants this war.” “The ability to declare war needs to be in the hands of the body that is most representative of the American people…. who shoulder the burden.”

Easier. Voted to restore federal employees’ collective bargaining rights. Sponsored the Protect America’s Workforce Act, to repeal Trump’s executive order restricting union rights at federal agencies.

Easier. “I…believe in expanding the power of organized labor.” Says unions provide “higher wages” and lead to “better conditions for workers who aren’t even in labor unions.” Federal-funded projects “should be built by union labor.”

Mixed. Introduced a bill providing federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages. Called it “common-sense legislation” that “provides certainty to millions of loving couples.” Voted for a federal ban on transgender athletes participating in women’s sports.

Expand. “Equality under the law cannot be denied because of sex.” Supports “passing…federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation.” Opposes efforts to prevent, “in a wholesale way,” transgender girls from playing in girls’ sports. “I do not think banning is the answer.”

Raise. In 2023, introduced a bill to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $11 by 2028, indexing future increase to inflation. “I recognize the difficulties for anyone who is trying to make ends meet while earning the federal minimum wage.”

Raise. Says the federal minimum wage should be raised, indexed to inflation “so we never again see the buying power of the American worker eroded as we have over the 20 years since we last raised the wage.” “We’ve watched this state become essentially unlivable for working-class people.”

Mixed. In 2017, voted for Trump tax cuts, which included the largest one-time cut in the corporate tax rate and large tax breaks for the wealthy. In 2025, voted against extending those cuts. In 2021, voted against increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy to pay for family services, health, and environment programs.

Raise. Calls the federal tax code a “billionaire welfare” system. Wants “a wealth tax on the ultra-rich” and a “cost of living tax cut for the rest of us.” Would end capital gains tax breaks by treating capital gains like wages, and make large corporations pay federal corporate taxes.

Mostly harder. Voted to require citizenship proof when registering to vote in federal elections. “The law is clear that in this country only American citizens are eligible to vote in federal elections.” Later voted to not require proof. Supports voter ID. Requiring “an ID at the polls…will improve the security of our federal elections.”

Easier. Called the U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the Voting Rights Act “disastrous.” Supported the defeat of a Maine referendum requiring photo IDs and tighter rules for absentee voting. “It’s essential that we allow people to vote from a distance,” because “transportation is an issue…in rural Maine.”