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Feb 08
2008

Cantwell Supports Senate Stimulus Package

Posted by Editor in Untagged 
After Republican leadership blocked attempts to pass an economic stimulus package that addressed some of our country’s short and long term economic challenges, the U.S. Senate passed a package that brings much needed financial relief to American families, including more than 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled vets.  While pleased that short-term relief will be given to millions of
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Feb 08
2008

Murray Helps Pass Economic Relief for Struggling Families

Posted by Editor in Politics, Government
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) joined the Senate in approving a bipartisan economic stimulus bill to help revive the nation’s faltering economy.

“The Senate stimulus package we approved today is the shot in the arm our economy needs,” Senator Murray said.  “Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their homes and their jobs, and they are struggling to pay
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Feb 06
2008

What’s the hurry on the Enchantress?

Posted by Editor in Letters, Government

From Bill Mitchell

Anacortes is a tugboat kind of town.

Before there were fishing boats in Anacortes, there were tugboats towing logs to the mills. When the cod schooners arrived in 1891, the tugs were here to meet them.
Come the canneries, tugs put in the fish traps, serviced them and hauled scows of salmon to town for canning. Tugs helped fight our waterfront fires and, at this very moment, purr

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Feb 04
2008

Patty Murray on the Bush budget

Posted by Editor in Politics, Government

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash), the second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee and a key member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today responded to the President's fiscal year 2009 budget request to Congress.

"With his final budget request to Congress, the President gave us more of the same.  More promises, fewer dollars.  More rhetoric, less

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Feb 04
2008

Maria Cantwell's Monday Memo - Feb. 4, 2008

Posted by Editor in Politics, Government
Response to the State of the Union

Following President Bush’s State of the Union address last Monday, I addressed a few of the President’s topics:

On the Economy:

For months, the housing crisis, persistently high energy prices, and volatility in the stock market have left millions of Americans feeling
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