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Maria Ellen Cantwell is a United States Senator from Washington, serving since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been actively involved in various legislative efforts, particularly focusing on technology, environmental issues, and healthcare. Throughout her tenure, Cantwell has worked on policies aimed at promoting clean energy and protecting the environment, as well as advocating for affordable healthcare access for all Americans.
I would just say to the Senator from Connecticut--and I thank him for his leadership--that we need to come together and consider ways in which to stop gun violence. We need to improve the mental health system, and I know people have talked…
We believe in an outdoor recreation economy in the State of Washington and it has provided great dividends.
I thank you for holding this hearing and for including three bills that concern the State of Washington.
How do you think we make this transition, because I am assuming the companies that invested in these pipelines need to recoup their investments.
I don't want to have the same discussion about natural gas, because I would actually like to see natural gas.
I join my colleagues this morning on the Senate floor in an effort to wake up the Senate to the fact that, without action by this body and specifically the Senate Banking Committee, Members are literally supporting shipping jobs overseas…
I am on the floor with my colleague from North Dakota because we feel passionately about this issue. We are frustrated with the shenanigans that have gone on with the export credit agency. I say ``shenanigans'' because for a long time…
I am pleased to join with Senator Murray in introducing legislation to rename the Olympic Wilderness in Olympic National Park as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, in honor of former Washington Senator and Governor Dan Evans. Dan Evans has…
I've heard just since last Friday from practically every major city or region of our state about their concerns about the continued movement of this product.
It's good to see you, Mr. Secretary. And thank you for all your leadership on freight and the FAST Act.
Offshore oil and gas production is an important part of our domestic energy portfolio today.
Last month was the sixth anniversary of the BP Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill, which was an epic human, economic and ecological disaster.
I think that is what these individual employees or small entrepreneurs want to see, is their ability to get the same kind of leverage as somebody that works for a larger company.
Thank you, Chairman Murkowski and the members of the Committee, for the invitation to testify here today and to extend my particular thanks to our home state Senator, Maria Cantwell, who has been a strong supporter of our operations.
This is especially important to me and the State of Washington because we have a long history of leaking nuclear waste tanks...
The responsibility is especially great because it is, with its $30 billion budget, responsible for maintaining and safeguarding our nuclear arsenal...
One of the things that you, I am sure, understand is that Senator Collins and I gave U.S. Department of Homeland Security the authority to expand preclearance overseas.
Do you think we could get standardization with other countries on a biometric that is a retinal and fingerprint biometric standard?
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