Maria Cantwell actually said...

"To me, it's unacceptable to our State, my constituents, to think that Hanford is just going to end up being that repository for that vast amount of high level Defense waste."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for holding this hearing and trying to get a bipartisan approach on this with the Ranking Member, Senator Murkowski."

"I look at this as an immediate impact that my constituents are feeling and our economy is feeling because of the sequester."

"So I hope that we will track, as a committee, these gateway communities, the local economic impact as well, of what sequestration is doing."