Honorable Maria Cantwell
Senator, Washington, Democrat
Sen. Cantwell has served as Washington’s junior senator since 2001 and is the ranking member on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. She also serves on the following committees: Energy and Natural Resources; Finance; Indian Affairs; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The following remarks were made during a Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on the Arctic and Greenland on Feb. 12. My state has long-standing ties to the Arctic. When you talk about 125 years ago in the Klondike Gold Rush, and how everything sent to Alaska came through Puget Sound—the 200 vessels homeported in Seattle that…
