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'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
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.
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.
We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want it to be Medicaid in Washington, either.
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
It was no big deal. It didn't affect my vision and I could breathe OK.
We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations,