November 14, 2025
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U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, called on the Trump Administration to release as much economic data as possible before the Fed’s meeting in early December and resume normally scheduled data releases as soon as possible.
November 6, 2025
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U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, set the record straight on the Republican government shutdown and questioned three nominees to key transportation boards about their statutory obligations to act independently. Sen. Luján led Democrats at today’s hearing on Trump transportation nominees John DeLeeuw to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and Richard Kloster and Michelle Schultz to be Members of the Surface Transportation Board (STB). Ms. Shultz is a current STB member and is nominated for a second term.
November 6, 2025
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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Vice Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, today demanded answers from Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator Arielle Roth about why the Trump Administration has frozen the distribution of nearly $1 billion in congressionally-approved broadband grants to Native communities.
November 5, 2025
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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing on the nominations of Ryan McCormack to be Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, Daniel Edwards to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs, and Trent Morse to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
October 30, 2025
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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, today warned that the rapid deployment of AI combined with politically-driven consolidation of major media and technology companies poses a serious threat to the first amendment and to freedom of the press at today’s hearing on government censorship. Sen. Cantwell called out the failure of Chair Cruz to bring FCC Chair Brendan Carr before the Committee despite Carr’s use of regulatory threats to try to silence voices that do not support President Trump’s agenda.
October 29, 2025
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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, delivered the below opening statement at the second in a series of Republican hearings allegedly focused on government censorship and the First Amendment. Despite FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s blatant use of regulatory threats against ABC and its affiliates if they didn’t suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel, Chair Cruz has refused to call him to testify before the committee of jurisdiction. The hearing featured Neil Potts, Vice President of Public Policy at Meta, Markham Erickson, Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google, Will Creeley, Legal
October 29, 2025
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Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Committee-members Sens. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Jacky Rosen (Nev.) wrote to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz strongly opposing a proposed November 6 nomination hearing that would include John DeLeeuw to replace National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Vice Chair Alvin Brown. Mr. Brown was illegally removed from his position by President Trump earlier this
October 28, 2025
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U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) sent a letter to the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Silver, regarding allegations of gambling-related corruption in the league and the threat it poses to the game’s integrity.
October 28, 2025
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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries hearing on reviving commercial shipbuilding in the United States:
October 28, 2025
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Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, was joined by Tuuli Snow, a member of the family-owned Seattle shipbuilder Snow & Company, for a subcommittee hearing on revitalizing our nation’s commercial shipbuilding industry.