Maria Cantwell

A running account of tsunami debris finds and debris-related news in and around Washington: June 20: Large piece of metal, refrigerator, television A piece of metal initially thought to be a 7-foot airplane fuselage is found at Cranberry Beach in...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a $7.7 million grant to the Tacoma Fire Department that will be used to avert the proposed layoff of 37 firefighters, Mayor Marilyn Strickland and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., announced Friday. “...

The state is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for investigative help in determining why whooping cough is spreading so quickly in Washington. It comes after Gov. Christine Gregoire released emergency money to pay for more vaccine,...

State Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, official filed his candidacy Monday for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Maria Cantwell. “America’s years of decline must stop here and now,” Baumgartner said in a statement issued by...

A 150 foot Japanese fishing vessel, believed to be washed out to sea by an earthquake and tsunami last March, has appeared off the coast of British Columbia and is expected to drift north toward Alaska, according to NOAA. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)...

A 150-foot Japanese fishing vessel that was washed away last year in Japan’s major earthquake and tsunami has traveled across the Pacific Ocean and is about 120 nautical miles off Canada’s Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands,...

Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The Maryland Democrats joined a group of 24 senators in declaring the mission in Afghanistan...

Congressman Dave Reichert’s recent decision not to challenge Democrat Maria Cantwell this fall for her U.S. Senate seat left only one significant Republican in the race.  That would be Michael Baumgartner of Spokane. Baumgartner was first elected...

Well, here's at least one element of Maria Cantwell's record she wasn't planning on defending: Not being married. State Sen. Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane), who is running against Cantwell, made the critique in a letter to supporters, reports the...

Moments after President Barak Obama finished his speech to the Joint Session of Congress on September 8, politicians in Washington state published their reactions to President Obama’s American Jobs Act. Here are some excerpts from the statements...

Congress is weighing in on the debate over the proposed gold and copper mine, known as Pebble Mine, in the Bristol Bay area.  Monday, Washington state Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator...

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for a portion of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to be converted into a National Park. Salazar toured Hanford’s B Reactor Sunday, according to a story in the Tri-City Herald. “We have not yet done...