Maria Cantwell
Maria Cantwell
Maria Elaine Cantwellis the junior United States Senator from Washington, serving since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and then in the United States House of Representatives from Washington's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1995, after which she worked as an executive for RealNetworks. She is Washington's second female senator, after Patty Murray. She served as Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 October 1958
CountryUnited States of America
We need to give our children a future less dependent on fossil fuel, ... According to the Energy Department's latest analysis, even if oil companies drill in the wildlife refuge and hit peak production, it will only lower gas prices by a penny per gallon.
The president needs to have emergency powers to halt gas-price gouging,
Congress has authority to protect, I believe, our most important species,
Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.
The bill gives oil companies a free ride with backdoor language that allows them to circumvent environmental laws, legal standards, federal agency oversight that every other business in America has to comply with. ... America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal in the budget language,
It's time for a change, and it's not an issue of being old. It's an issue of longevity,
I want to give the president all the tools possible, ... ...Giving the president power to declare an energy emergency sends a very sharp message to people that we are going to be coming after them
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits.
We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations,
It is a false promise that they are going to have cheaper gas prices now, or significantly cheaper gas prices in the future, ... It is a false promise on the amount of revenue that is going to be raised in the budget. It is a false promise that somehow this can be done in an environmentally sensitive way, and that the area that we have called so long, the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, can be preserved as it is.
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We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
This is too important a question to slide into the budget bill, ... We are setting a very, very dangerous precedent.