Maria Cantwell

In less than a year, the Interior Department has left $750 million in taxpayer royalties on the table.

Public policy needs to be based on sound science and honest information.

It is vitally important that the scientists and economists in the Department of the Interior and Department of Energy remain independent.

It is essential that this important work continue and that the scientists who do it are protected from public interference.

The Geological Survey provides the nation with science about water, energy, minerals and other natural resources.

I have a feeling this administration is not as robustly supporting of fisheries science as we think that we need to have.

I believe the Secretary is conflicted here.

The Trump administration budget would propose completely eliminating that fund.

I agree. That's what I wanted to hear you say. So the 47s aren't getting the whole job done, and when we look at both the conditions and the flow of traffic and who we're talking about, we want to make sure our fishermen are safe.

What can we do to maintain that fleet given, as you just said, the 47s don't have that towing capacity, and this is a very prime fishing fleet location for the Pacific Northwest?

We don't want to see price gouging just because somebody had the really unfortunate experience of being in a path of this kind of devastation.

I doubt that my utilities sit around and go, 'Ugh, it's Alaska, let's gouge.'

I guarantee you they were not charging Whitefish rates to go.

I think we need to work very hard to make sure this situation where somebody came in to take advantage of the gap...

This Administration, which has been responsible for restoring the electricity grid, along with local partners, needs to do more for the people of Puerto Rico.

I did not support that legislation. One of the reasons was because it favored more of the interests of the hedge fund shareholders than it did the U.S. taxpayers.

The Federal Government needs to do more, and it needs to plan in advance.

We have to help do our part, too, because if state-owned actors are going to continue to hack, we need to do something.

I would say that we need something more at this point in time.

We have to do both. We have to, at the Federal level, up our game and make sure that we're making investments.

The issue of cybersecurity is here, it's here. It's a national security issue, it's a consumer issue.

I think it's not too soon to act.

I think now is the time for us to be very serious about passing legislation, as we did out of the Senate, that would help us fight the issue of cyber crime.

I always say around here--I try to explain the transitioning economy and say to my young colleagues, the people in my office, there's a reason Ma Bell doesn't exist anymore, and they look at me and they say 'Who's Ma Bell?' because they…

If people want to open the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, you should just admit you are going to destroy the wildlife refuge.