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Tom Wheeler's confirmation doesn't seem to be in doubt, according to Senate Commerce Committee Chair Sen. Jay Rockefeller.

Like the Federal Communications Commission chairman before him, Tom Wheeler is a broadband and wireless devotee, which should come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with President Obama's nominee for chairman.

For Ernest Moniz, today is baptism-by-Hanford. Elbowed by Sen. Maria Cantwell, the newly minted U.S. Energy Secretary pledged to visit the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and he's keeping his word.

Media consolidation critic Sen. Maria Cantwell Tuesday criticized Gannett over its proposal to buy Belo stations, including three in Washington state, to create a so-called Super Group.

Tom Wheeler, a veteran lobbyist nominated last month to become chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said he is ready to make the transition from Washington insider to public servant.

Washington state Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, along with five Democratic House members from the state’s delegation, want a quick decision from the U.S. Justice Department on whether the state can proceed with its plans to sell marijuana for recreational use beginning next year.

Clallam and Jefferson counties have received a combined $2.08 million - and far more than either county expected - from a federal program that reimburses rural counties for the presence of non-taxable federal lands.

Sen. Maria Cantwell presented the Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award to LIHI, represented by Pearl Leung .

This week brings a flurry of activity on and off Capitol Hill - sometimes way off.

Decades later, while working in Yakima, O'Neil learned that she had thyroid cancer that could have been caused by clouds of radioactive iodine-131 released from Hanford's plutonium plants with no public warning in the 1940s and '50s.

News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Seattle and King County government and more The U.S. House of Representatives has approved creation of a Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford and two other sites, just a week after the federal government said it won't be able to meet deadlines ... (more)

WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell hailed the release of U.S. Forest Service 2013 Payment In Lieu Taxes compensation to counties in Northwest Washington.

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell says new federal Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz plans to visit the Hanford Nuclear Reservation next week.

The $15.6 million in federal funds will cover 100 percent of the temporary bridge and 90 percent of the permanent one.

Patty Murray arrived 20 years ago to a U.S. Senate whose "gentlemen" members had a convenient restroom just off the Senate floor, but not the six "gentle ladies."

Yesterday, Brian Schatz stood up and showed why he's a leader that the people of Hawaii need fighting for them every day in the U.S. Senate.

Senators Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., have introduced a bipartisan bill to make the New Markets Tax Credit program permanent and increase its annual allocation.

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., signed on to a bill Tuesday that would make the New Markets Tax Credit permanent.

In this moment of angst over all the scary things that Congressional fine print ends up enabling , here's some new Congressional fine print - championed by Washington Senator Maria Cantwell - that could be great : Cantwell's Pulse School Pilot provision would provide the U.S. Department of Agriculture $10 million through 2017 to purchase pulse ... (more)

Alaska and Washington, children of a common ancestor. Long before Alaska gained statehood in 1959, Washington was economically and politically hitched to the last wilderness.