I am just talking about his tweets. If he has backed off on that--I believe anybody can learn, and if he has backed off on that, that is great.

The notion that the President thinks and has said... there will be collateral damage... is just not something I think that an economy like the State of Washington... is ready to embrace.

I have huge concerns about the number of American companies... that give up their intellectual property.

Under this budget, the Department would only be able to maintain status quo without making progress.

Our energy infrastructure is under attack. It is under cyberattack, and we need to do much more to protect it as a national critical asset.

The welfare reform efforts have been successful, but they are over 20 years old.

We are going to keep innovating; that is the key thing in the State of Washington.

Will you go back and review those assessments as it relates to Plutonium Finishing Plant and live up to the tri-party agreement?

If the FBI and Department of Homeland Security's recent admission is not a siren, then I don't know what is.

It is very important that we continue to make progress on the largest nuclear waste cleanup project in the world.

So what can we do to get both a better understanding of our real risks and an accurate budget increase to fund what is critical, critical, to our national security?

I am disappointed by the Administration's approach to the Hanford cleanup.

And living up to the tri-party agreement?

I have called for a doubling, but I could see where I am wildly underfunding what is one of the most serious threats to us as a nation right now.

So why cut this area of the budget?

I would just, again, hope that you, as a Department of Energy representative, would help nurture that process along and not let us get stuck with top-down politics between Canada and the United States that may have a lot of different…

I think you could play a key role, even though State is very much in the lead, because I feel that there is so much dialogue going on between the United States and Canada right now in a lot of trade discussion.

in every corner of our country today and across my State in Washington, countless students are taking part in a walkout in support of reforms to combat gun violence. I stand in solidarity with these students who are trying to provide an…

We appreciate Senator Cantwell's work on behalf of Indian Country and, specifically, on the opioid issue.

S. 2440, the Comprehensive Addiction, Recovery, Education and Safety (CARES) Act, would provide law enforcement with more tools to hold drug companies accountable.

Our Tribe supports S. 2440.

We support Senator Cantwell's bill, the CARES Act. This is a good bill that would increase opioid prevention and treatment funding.

One key focus of that legislation is putting stiffer penalties on manufacturers who fail to meet the standard DEA has set up for some drugs as addictive as opioids.

In our State, we have had over 10,000 fatal overdoses in basically a 17-year period of time.

I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that agriculture is not one of those losers.