Maria Cantwell

I’m glad Senator Thune set a date certain in September to bring it up because the challenges facing student athletes and universities aren’t going away.

That's where the gaps are.

The DOJ should also drop its litigation to obtain state voter rolls and its continued threats to prosecute election officials.

Between Washington and Oregon, we've hit a record for the amount of acreage that has been burning.

We must re-emphasize that current use of the SAVE program for list maintenance is illegal, and efforts to coerce states to conduct mass voter purges during the 'quiet period' are also illegal under the NVRA...

The IRS’s address sharing policy therefore violates the statute, improperly displaces Congress’s legislative judgments, undermines the confidentiality of taxpayer information and taxpayer reliance, and threatens the national fisc.

The data sharing here was illegal and threatens federal revenue, adversely affecting all taxpayers.

The data sharing at issue in this case by the [IRS] and [ICE] violates the express terms of the statute and ignores its history.

Implementing this rule will worsen Americans’ overall quality of health, waste millions of dollars on administrative red tape, and cause preventable health emergencies for all Americans.

We urge CMS to withdraw this rule to ensure that Medicaid can continue its mission of providing health coverage to low-income Americans.

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.

The next couple of days will be challenging, but we are going to do everything we can to make sure the resources are here and continue to make sure that this issue gets our nation's attention.

Technology can play a big role. We have to show people that the connection between the information that we can get, and then the actual action plan that we can put into place, that's where that's where the gaps are.

We just have to move faster.

The Northwest will continue to benefit from air assets, and I hope that more of them can be deployed throughout the region, as smoke allows, to help Spokane, Okanogan and all Northeast Washington counties, the Spokane and Colville Tribes…

We have to show people that the connection between the information that we can get, and then the actual action plan that we can put into place, that's where that's where the gaps are.

Today, it is the top fire in our nation. That means [the federal government is] going to give us the resources that we need here on the ground.

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.

There are some up here with us who have been evacuated. There are some that have lost their homes. So we are with you in this situation, and we're going to do everything we can to get the federal resources to help you.

We are not out of danger.

President Trump’s statements, coupled with his repeated threats to invoke the Insurrection Act — which authorizes the president to deploy military forces inside the United States to suppress rebellion or domestic violence — only heighten…

When we wanted the Voting Rights Act passed, I was willing to do it.

The Administration now has a choice. It can continue to fuel the appearance that it is laying the groundwork for an unprecedented federal intrusion into state-run elections, or it can finally provide Congress and the American people with…

Americans should never have to wonder whether the federal government intends to police the ballot box with armed agents. Yet that is precisely what the Trump Administration appears to be considering, if not planning.

We are now working hard to pass another infrastructure investment bill, because we have to continue to make port infrastructure investment.