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1 October
5:25 pm

I was elected to the legislature in two thousand and two, and I came in as a freshman member of the Appropriations Committee and we had a billion dollar shortfall.

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Hannah Pingree, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (NEWS CENTER Maine)

5:25 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific claim about the year she was elected, her committee assignment, and the size of the budget shortfall — all verifiable against Maine legislative records.
What we foundAll three factual elements of the claim are confirmed by multiple independent sources: Pingree was elected in 2002, she served on the Appropriations Committee in her first term, and Maine faced a roughly $1 billion budget shortfall at that time.
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