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 make sure we have every tool in the toolbox to prohibit oil profiteers from taking advantage of this tragedy,
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 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,
There is an average of over 500 oil spills a year on Alaskan North Slope, and over 4,000 spills in the last 10 years. Let's not pollute one of the great last refuges of America,
Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.
The underlying bill is a sweetheart deal for oil companies that have made a record $30 billion in profits last quarter,
America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal (for oil companies) in the budget,
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,