Maria Cantwell
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"Maria Elaine Cantwell" is the Senior Senator/junior United States Senate/United States Senator from the state of Washington (U.S. state)/Washington, serving since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States)/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 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 United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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The Bush rate hike would have a devastating impact on our economy and jobs. I will not rest until the administration's plan is dead and gone.

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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.

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Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of care, that best safeguard a woman's life and health. Women and their families, along with their doctors, are simply better than politicians at making decisions about their medical care.

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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.

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We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

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I don't know what the level should be, ... But I know consumers should not be paying $5 a gallon for gas.

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This proposal [Northwest Rate Hike} would turn the lights out on the North west economy.

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This boils down to regional homeland security, ... the nearest fighter jets available [to the Pacific Northwest] in an emergency may be as far away as Fresno, Calif.

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We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations.

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