Maria Cantwell
Democrat · WA · U.S. Senate
Bio
Maria Ellen Cantwell is an American politician serving since 2001 as the junior U.S. senator from Washington. A member of the Democratic Party, she served from 1987 to 1993 in the Washington House of Representatives and from 1993 to 1995 in the United States House of Representatives.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 27.7 years · not continuous, returned 2001
- Chambers
- House 2y, Senate 25.7y
- First took office
- 1993 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 14 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Everett, WA · 425-303-0114
- Richland, WA · 509-946-8106
- Seattle, WA · 206-220-6400
- Spokane, WA · 509-353-2507
- Tacoma, WA · 253-572-2281
- Vancouver, WA · 360-696-7838
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.2M – $5.6M
- Liabilities
- $280k – $600k
- Net worth
- $627k – $5.3M
- Since 2018
- +$540k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Maria Cantwell's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Maria Cantwell (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Cantwellsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Joint Committee on Taxationcenter · 10 members
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Aviation, Space, and Innovation (Ex Officio)Telecommunications and Media (Ex Officio)Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy (Ex Officio)Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries (Ex Officio)Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness (Ex Officio)Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cantwell's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Push for Mandatory AI Safety Rules Gains Momentum in WashingtonSen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the ranking member on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, unveiled a framework Wednesday (Oct. 7) for regulating frontier artificial intelligence in a possible preview of a federal regulatory push should Demo…
pymnts.com · October 8, 2026
'Not clear what we're doing': GOP senators turn on their own leaders as midterms loomSenate Republicans are grumbling publicly about their own party's priorities as they head into their last scheduled week in session before the November midterms.According to the Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) decided against sending…
Raw Story · September 28, 2026
Disagreements reemerge in bipartisan AI safety talksDisagreements over how far to go on AI safety legislation portend a rocky road ahead for bipartisan Senate talks on a bill that remains the most likely vehicle for action this year. The Senate Commerce Committee’s lead Democrat, Maria Cantwell of Washington, …
Biztoc.com · September 11, 2026- Record number of Washington mail-in ballots uncounted after primary election, report finds
Elected officials in Washington state are sounding the alarm about an increase in uncounted ballots, especially in rural areas. Their warnings come as President Donald Trump ramps up his fight against vote-by-mail states.Washington Secretary of State Steve Ho…
Freerepublic.com · September 4, 2026
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