Maria Cantwell

It will be a monumental step. It will seal our commitment with our global partners to fighting climate change.

It will reduce carbon pollution and will make real progress on climate change.

Manufacturing is responsible for more than 12,000,000 American jobs and is contributing more than $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.

The success of our manufacturing sector is vital to our economy.

These manufacturing jobs, because of the wages they pay, help people who come from working class backgrounds make it to the middle class.

But this will be a federal disaster. If you are going to affect the economies of Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska, it is going to have a devastating impact on the national economy as well.

I just feel like we are planning for Cascadia by Committee, almost, and I feel like we need a General.

I feel there is too much mystery left here.

I think we really do need to focus in on this.

We have a crisis, we cannot wait.

There probably is not a more important issue in Indian country than exactly how our education system is working or lack thereof and transparency.

NIISA wishes to express its gratitude to Senator Tester and Senator Cantwell for initiating this authorization.

We have to have incredible security. In fact, one of our border agents caught the millennial bomber

We're about to hit spring and summer, and we have cruise ships that greatly impact the flow in the Northwest.

We're also very poignantly aware of efficiency. We need both.

I'm fully supportive of that, and we're so glad we got that into the Customs bill.

We have to get serious about passing legislation giving Puerto Rico the tools they need to restructure their debt and begin to rebuild their economy.

It forces people to think ahead and it allows for the development to happen in a faster time period.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner, who conserves the public interest.

Science has always been our guide.

That is what we have to continue to focus on.

We urge Congress to pass the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act

So, are we losing ground to international competitors because we are not----

We definitely believe that drones could be a huge asset in helping us track and monitor fire starts.

I am pleased to see that the $138 million that was in the 2016 levels were maintained but it is clearly not enough to deal with the shortfall.