Maria Cantwell

Together Senator Murray and I will continue to advocate for this critical infrastructure, working to ensure our colleagues and the administration understand the importance of the waterways and navigation systems in the Pacific Northwest…

You know, I'm sure you understand because you said you traveled to 100 different countries, that approximately 96 percent of global consumers are and over three-quarters of the world's purchasing power are overseas.

Hanford is the largest nuclear waste cleanup site in the entire world.

I guarantee you it cannot be done.

We are going to have issues and serious problems.

The Department of Energy is a global leader in science and technology with an unrivaled network of national laboratories.

It is really critical that we have a functioning bank.

I do not think you are going to find a lot of support on our side of the aisle for somebody who is not supportive of the Export-Import Bank.

It would be very bad if U.S. companies were locked out.

I am very concerned about new Chinese regulations that make it almost impossible for U.S. technology companies to be involved in cloud services that operate within Chinese markets.

I think nationally we need about 300 to 500 more K9 units, and the training does take a long time and the certification takes a long time.

To me, post what's happened in international airports and our own facility, you mentioned deterrents, which I love the fact that these K9 units can be deterrents out in the outer perimeters of the airport.

Sea-Tac Airport has been one of the fastest growing large hub airports in the United States for the last 3 years.

I find the budget so focused on the oil and natural gas aspect of revenue that I think that you are neglecting the fact that the outdoor economy generates $887 billion a year.

You cannot just change this rule without notice and without comment. You cannot just make up your own new regulation without a due process.

I believe that any action by this Administration to undermine the protection for Bears Ears or any other national monument is illegal, and I will strongly oppose any legislative attempt to weaken this monument status.

I hope that as my colleague and I continue to work on this, we certainly will not be shortchanging the volunteer fire departments because they are our best resource, in my opinion, right now to help us have a hasty response to wildfires.

I cannot imagine a universe where anyone thinks that status quo at the Forest Service is acceptable, particularly in regards to the fires that we have been facing.

I also do not understand zeroing out collaboratives. These are things that have given us our best effort to date on working collaboratively.

I will guarantee you my colleagues here in the United States Senate are well on their way to having that fixed.

This budget, which goes in the opposite direction, which proposes cutting $300 million from fire suppression, is not the direction we need to go.

I do not see how the President's budget even begins to enable the Forest Service to fulfill its motto of caring for the land and serving the people.

This budget proposes to cut almost $300 million from fighting forest fires and another decrease of $50 million for preventing wildfires.

The science says that we should be focusing our nation's attention on funding and getting ahead of the fire problem.

I'm from Washington and we want to innovate.