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Press Releases 05/9/2025
Cantwell, Colleagues Call on President Trump to Reverse the Firing of Consumer Product Safety Commissioners
Press Releases 05/8/2025
At Hearing with Industry Leaders, Cantwell Seeks to Accelerate U.S. Leadership in AI Technology and Exports
Press Releases 05/6/2025
Hegseth Dereliction in Defending DoD Spectrum from Land Grab Threatens National Security, Cantwell Warns
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding answers about the risks to national security if spectrum bands that are essential to national defense are included for auction in the Republicans’ proposed reconciliation legislation.
Press Releases 05/6/2025
Cantwell & Longtime Public TV Travel Host Rick Steves Decry Trump Assault on Public Broadcasting
Steves: I fear that the same swaths of our country that struggle as ‘food deserts’ will suffer as ‘media deserts’
Press Releases 05/6/2025
Cantwell Opening Statement at May 6 ‘Field of Streams: The New Channel Guide for Sports Fans’ Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, delivered the following opening statement at today’s ‘Field of Streams: The New Channel Guide for Sports Fans’ hearing:
Press Releases 05/3/2025
Cantwell Statement on Crippling of National Weather Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation blasted the Trump administration following news reports that the National Weather Service is headed into hurricane season with 30 of its 122 weather forecast offices without their most experienced official, known as the meteorologist-in-charge.
Press Releases 05/1/2025
Cantwell Questions Commerce Deputy Sec Nominee on Drastic NOAA Cuts: “We Are Going to Hold This Administration Accountable.”
Press Releases 05/1/2025
Senators Demand to Know Who Killed Minority Business Development Agency, Why & Where’s the Money Going?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), demanded that Keith Sonderling, the purported Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), promptly turn over key documents and information related to the dismantling of the agency and recent funding termination notices sent to all grantees by a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE. The Senators’ demands come as Paul Dabbar, Trump’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of Commerce, appears this morning before the Commerce Committee for his nomination hearing.
Press Releases 04/30/2025
Cantwell Opening Statement at April 30 Markup
Press Releases 04/30/2025
Cantwell Statement on Trump’s First 100 Days in Office
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