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Maine: Seth Berry

January 30, 2009 - 10:04 am
NEWS FEED: Kennebec Journal

Want to see what your local legislator is up to?

By Susan M. Cover

The list of bill titles is now available online, so you can get a sense of what your local legislator wants to accomplish this session.

At this point, most of them are just titles, because the revisor's office is busy putting them into bill form. So far, 275 bills have been printed out of the 1,535 requests submitted.

The list, which can be found here, is organized by name and by committee. That way, if you really just want to know what the Agriculture Committee is up to, you can search in that category.

From my quick review of the list, it looks as though House Whip Seth Berry, D-Richmond, will take the prize for most bills submitted with 43. The perennial winner in this category, Sen. Peter Mills, R-Cornville, came in with 41.

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Thu, 12/04/2008 - 13:02

New leadership, new staff

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

As Maine House and Senate leadership changes hands, there will be some different faces for key positions in legislative offices...

 

House speaker’s office

Rep. Hannah Pingree (D-North Haven) is the new House speaker, taking over for Glenn Cummings (D-Portland) who is termed out.

She is bringing on Jesse Connolly to serve as her chief of staff. Connolly served as her chief of staff last year when she was the House majority leader.

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Thu, 12/04/2008 - 12:36

Berry to be last leader standing after term

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The new House Speaker, Hannah Pingree (D-North Haven), assumed the top job after serving as House majority leader. She will be termed out when her term is up, along with Majority Leader John Piotti (D-Unity).

This leaves House minority whip Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham) as the only member of leadership eligible to run for speaker next term. He has two terms left.

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Wed, 12/03/2008 - 15:42

Photos: Legislative inauguration

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Photos from the legislative inauguration:

Legislators await the proceedings.

Gov. John Baldacci enters the legislative chamber.

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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 12:34

Maine House: The 25 biggest winners

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The Secretary of State’s office has released the official vote tallies for the Nov. 4 election.

The following received the most votes in state House races (contested races only):

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Fri, 11/14/2008 - 14:49

Leadership election video: Seth Berry

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Rep. Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham) won a six-way race for House majority whip Thursday. See below for video of his speech.

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Fri, 11/14/2008 - 14:29

Leadership elections video: Majority whip candidates

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham), who was elected House majority whip Thursday, was up against five other candidates: Cynthia Dill (D-Cape Elizabeth), Herb Clark (D-Millinocket), Richard Cleary (D-Houlton), Mike Carey (D-Lewiston) and Don Pilon (D-Saco).

See below for video of Dill, Clark, Carey and Pilon. Regrettably we were unable to get video of Cleary.

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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 15:32

Seth Berry elected as majority whip

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

State Rep. Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham) was just elected House majority whip.

In a six way contest between Reps. Cynthia Dill (D-Cape Elizabeth), Richard Cleary (D-Houlton), Mike Carey (D-Lewiston), Don Pilon (D-Saco) and Herb Clark (D-Millinocket), Berry got more than 50 percent of the vote, winning on the first ballot.

We will have more on the election later.

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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 01:42

Leadership candidate: Seth Berry

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Maine House Democrats will elect their leaders at 10 a.m. this morning. We have put together brief bios of each of the candidates, taken from the legislative record.

House Republicans will elect their leaders this afternoon, and those bios will be posted later this morning.

 

Seth Berry

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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 12:33

House to elect leaders Thursday

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Republicans and Democrats in the Maine House will elect their respective leaders Thursday.

On the Democratic side, Rep. Hannah Pingree (D-North Haven) will likely be unopposed for House speaker.

For House majority leader, Reps. Gary Connor (D-Kennebunk), John Piotti (D-Unity) and Sharon Treat (D-Hallowell) have all announced intentions to run.

It is a five-way race for majority whip between:

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