...mover and shaker. Maybe this would have gone down well before the dot-com bubble burst. A similar story line worked for Maria Cantwell, who went from being multi-millionaire vice president of marketing at RealNetworks to becoming a U.S. senator for Washington... (more)

...with Anderson on club affairs, said Anderson still had the contacts he needed to get high-profile people like U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and Gov. Chris Gregoire to speak at the club. "He knew a lot of people, and he knew how the political process works," Foster... (more)

...? Since he was first elected to Congress 12 years ago, U.S. Rep. Adam Smith has fashioned himself as a deficit hawk. The Tacoma Democrat and other members of Washington state?s congressional delegation face the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.... (more)

...had to approve the channel reconstruction. Dyrland credited U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, along with U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, for interceding on behalf of the project. The early result is less than stellar. Steve Manlow, a habitat biologist with... (more)

...the way we send electricity from where it's produced to where it's used. During a committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) pushed the need to beef up our outdated transmission system, saying an additional investment of $5 billion could allow... (more)

...Nick Shipley has joined the McManus Group as director of government relations. Shipley was the legislative director for Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.). He spent seven years working for Inslee. Shipley?s work focused on legislation before the House Energy and Commerce... (more)