Funding was secured by Cantwell in Inflation Reduction Act - includes $390M for tribal fisheries, including salmon hatcheries to help boost orca populations, and $83M to rebuild Seattle’s NW Fisheries Science Center; Cantwell: “This is a record amount of investment in salmon, salmon habitat and in salmon recovery
Bill would codify Roadless Rule, which protects almost 60 million acres of America’s last remaining wild forestlands, including 2 million acres in the State of Washington
Community leaders and people with lived fentanyl experience join Cantwell for press availability after roundtable discussion; Cantwell: “We have to meet it at the national level with a task force response”
Four WA sites and organizations in Bainbridge, Seattle, and Puyallup will receive National Park Service grants to preserve and educate about horrific WWII Japanese internment policies
Senator Murray: “The funding decisions we make right here in this chamber are not just numbers on a page. They are investments in people, in families, in our communities, and ultimately: in our country’s future.”
Critical federal funding Senator Murray led the fight to secure—which saved the child care sector from collapse—is set to expire this fall, threatening to make a bad situation worse for families if Congress doesn’t take action to address the child care crisis
On June 2, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer (D, W-06) announced that four Japanese American Confinement Sites grants have been awarded to organizations in the State of Washington, including one that will fund completion of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Visitor Center.
A federal judge today agreed with Attorney General Bob Ferguson and rejected an attempt to block Washington’s new law banning the sale of assault weapons.