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
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.
These are the terrible consequences of our overdependence on fossil fuel, ... The natural disasters of Katrina and Rita have showed us firsthand how truly vulnerable we are.
open their books, so we can evaluate whether supply has been manipulated.
As the final numbers come in, we are going to be successful, ... I believe I will ultimately prevail.
Conservation must be more than a convenient slogan,
I think this is a critical part why you need federal legislation to make sure that supply isn't being manipulated and that there is transparency in the market,
We have known each other for a long time. When you've known each other for a while it's easy to work together and get to the answers.
We all need to be prepared, and we need to be better able to communicate,
Using backdoor tactics to destroy America's last great wild frontier will not solve our nation's energy problems and will do nothing to lower skyrocketing gas prices,
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.
I don't know what the level should be, ... But I know consumers should not be paying $5 a gallon for gas.
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.
My constituents are frustrated. Consumers want to know what we're going to do about this. Consumers definitely want to know what's going on.