Maria Cantwell: “As somebody who has seen the challenges that we faced in aerospace -- and yes, there have been challenges -- we also…”

At today’s briefing with Sec. Burgum, U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, and local fire chiefs, we discussed the next steps in responding to the fires and collecting information for a federal disaster declaration.

I ask our fellow Washingtonians to help this region, to be as patient as you can, to listen to what the first responders are saying because we're not out of danger yet.

I think that the arms race that exists now where people are just paying any amount of money from a system is not the right way to get this done.

Returning 72 acres of the Quinault Indian Nation’s original reservation will restore the Tribe’s ancestral lands and help preserve one of the area’s last remnants of old growth forest as a living museum for future generations.