Maria Cantwell

I believe this is an important step, and I hope we can coordinate with you and the Forest Service and the staff in the region to work on this particular area.

I know that conference is a place where many people come to discuss the future of energy policy, and Nevada has definitely been at the forefront of some of these policies.

More than a million tourists come to the Valley every year and contribute $150 million to the local economy.

No one wants to put that investment at risk.

This bill is about two things: clean water and keeping an amazing place the way it is.

I am proud to have worked with Senator Murray to protect the headwaters of the Methow Valley.

I'm very glad that the FCC stood up and decided to protect the Internet with the net neutrality rules.

We need to work together to find solutions that benefit all of us.

Thank you for your long advocacy about land into trust as an economic development tool for Tribes.

We need to somehow marry them together.

Figuring this out is really, really important for us.

While I wish the Federal Government was an early adopter, let's just say, Mr. Secretary, they are not an early adopter.

We, as a nation, were undermined by those security clearances that were given to each of those individuals.

When our own data base in the Congress was hacked, the personnel system and the security clearance of every employee that had a security clearance was violated.

Should we be looking at this from a different mindset?

We like upgrades when they work.

I do want to ask since you are looking at this from our national lab perspective.

Instead of just protecting the perimeter, let's look at the overall structure and infrastructure and ways in.

I think it could be greatly impacted by that because, obviously, the rail goes by your facilities.

We need to stop and say, is this safe enough for transport?

We need to invest in our infrastructure that is reliable, safe and resilient for the 21st century and not for the 20th century.

I hope we can, with your work, we are separately pushing the Department of Transportation to make an interim finding about the volatility.

We wanted energy independence. Well, we've got it. But now we have our own safety and security issues right here in the Northwest.

I noticed that a Sandia National Lab report found that 'currently used methods for assigning crude oil classifications are often inaccurate' and that there is not scientific agreement on the volatility of crude oils, like Bakken crude.

I am particularly concerned about the level of volatility in Bakken crude.