Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) at a Portland Event Last Year.

On the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Maine’s First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D) released the following statement:

“Today marks a solemn milestone for our nation:  its been exactly three years since a violent mob ransacked the US Capitol and sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election.  The insurrection spurred on by former president Trump is one of the darkest moments in our national history, and Congress’s return to the chamber hours later to complete our duty and ratify Joe Biden as the winner of the Electoral College and the 48th President of the United States was a critically important moment in American history.  We should mark this day with awareness that our democracy endures but is fragile and that the work of democracy is never finished, always evolving and requires our constant attention.  Benjamin Franklin’s adage to his colleagues during the Constitutional Convention paraphrased remains no less true today, 239 years later:  America remains a democracy – but only if we can keep it.”