Great news today in the fight to restore #netneutrality !

As Sen. Maria Cantwell said, the FCC vote makes it clear to internet providers: “you can’t throttle, you can’t slow down and you can’t charge exorbitant fees to have preferential treatment.”

Today on Earth Day we celebrate our planet’s beauty and renew our commitment to our lands, oceans, and coasts. We have much to celebrate but much more to do.

Today, Sen. Maria Cantwell,Senator Todd Young, Sen. Marsha Blackburn & Senator John Hickenlooper introduced the Future of AI Innovation Act that drives collaboration to develop AI standards, create risk assessment tools & make groundbreaking discoveries so the United States can lead in the global AI race.

I enjoyed visiting with Chair Dustin Klatush and other members of the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in DC last week.

Happening Now! Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell is joining Ed Markey and Jessica Rosenworcel on #netneutrality ⬇️

Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell statement on updated House TikTok legislation:

Thank you to the @NAHRONational affordable housing professionals from across WA who visited me in DC.

Building more affordable housing has to be our nation's priority. I'm fighting to pass legislation that would provide more than 200,000 new units nationwide.

“Their efforts are the best chance at the federal level to give consumers rights over the use of their personal data and limit what companies can collect and do with it — a cause with many backers on Capitol Hill.”

seattletimes.com/opinion/editor…

Wishing a happy #Vaisakhi to all Sikh Americans in the State of Washington and across the country!

More than 125,000 Washingtonians are living with Alzheimer's disease.
 
It was good to meet with WA advocates from Alzheimer's Association to discuss funding for research into new treatments, and how we can do more to support our state's dementia patients and their caregivers.

Sen. Maria Cantwell and Senator Patty Murray have delivered an additional $2.45 million in federal funding for advanced technology laboratory and research equipment for #WWU ’s new electrical engineering and computer science building, Kaiser Borsari Hall.

Read: news.wwu.edu/us-senators-ca…

Thank you to the WA dentists and dental students from the ADA who visited me to talk about ways to support dentists and make dental care more affordable for Washingtonians.

“There should be a strong national standard on this,” says Sen. Maria Cantwell on the new data privacy legislation being proposed. “[W]e want consumers to be protected on their most personal information from being used without their consent.”

🚨NEW: Microsoft's Brad Smith throws strong support behind Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell's and Chair @CathyMcMorris's bipartisan American Privacy Rights Act that gives Americans new privacy rights and protections.⬇️

Bottom line: We’re giving Americans the right to protect their information and the right to take legal action when their privacy is violated.

Read more about Chairs Sen. Maria Cantwell’s & @CathyMcMorris’s historic, bipartisan American Privacy Rights Act ⬇️commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/committ…

Hard-to-read privacy policies don’t inform anyone.

Everyone should have easy-to-read, understandable, and accessible privacy policies that tell you exactly how your data will be used.

Do you get frustrated when you can’t exit a data pop-up setting on a website? That’s a dark pattern.

This bill puts an end to dark patterns that manipulate you into accepting certain data settings when you’re not fully informed of what you’re signing up for.

Minimizing data collection is key to protecting your data privacy now and in the future.

This bill ends the limitless data collection by companies, leaving less of your data vulnerable to data breaches, harmful sales, or misuse.