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
I believe that we must work to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies through education and family planning. But I also believe that our Constitution protects a woman's right to privacy, and that this constitutional right encompasses the decision of whether to terminate a pregnancy.
People want border security, and they also want to retain a work force that's there and they want a legitimate path to citizenship.
Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
We need to make sure we have every tool in the toolbox to prohibit oil profiteers from taking advantage of this tragedy,
This is too important a question to slide into the budget bill, ... We are setting a very, very dangerous precedent.
Congress has authority to protect, I believe, our most important species,
We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations,
I'll tell you where my constituents are. They want to know why we spend billions of dollars on Star Wars defense, and yet we don't have the security to guarantee that there's not going to be a nuclear device in a cargo container that comes to the Port of Seattle.
High fuel costs are costing people their jobs, their pensions and their businesses,
The president needs to have emergency powers to halt gas-price gouging,
We all need to be prepared, and we need to be better able to communicate,
Unfortunately, women meeting their husbands through brokers frequently have little opportunity to get to know their prospective spouses or assess their potential for violence,
We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
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.