Maria Cantwell: “This matters to have these trails and facilities open to these communities.”

The state-of-the-art Airo trainsets replace much older cars, making travel on Amtrak’s Cascades route more convenient, accessible, and reliable for riders across the Pacific Northwest.

We need to stop stealing money out of college [and] university institutions for education, for tuition, for professors, and putting it into an arms race on sports.

The Airos also have nearly twice as many seats, helping to meet growing demand on this routinely sold-out route.

Today, Congress took a historic step to strengthen salmon and habitat recovery and help fulfill a decades-old vision to restore the Elwha River and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s connection to lands that have sustained them since time…