Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Maria Cantwell

DEMOCRAT U.S. Senator · WashingtonSenate 2001–now · House 1993–1995 (WA-1)

Maria Cantwell is a Democratic U.S. senator from Washington, in Congress since 1993, who voted with most Democrats on 97% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 5 bills become law since 2013.

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232Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)

16Passed a chamberof 205 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

5Became law5 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 113th–119th Congress · 0 this Congress

24Broke with partyof 913 yes/no votes, 119th (2.6%)

2Missed votesof 915 roll calls, 119th (0.2%)

$88.2MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 86 items; shared items split

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

NayOn the Nomination — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Nomination Confirmed
NayOn the Cloture Motion — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture Motion Agreed to
NayOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Ratepayer Protection Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
NayOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Stop Insider Trading Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
YeaOn the Motion to Discharge — A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Sep 29, 2026 · Motion to Discharge Rejected

5 most recent bills

S. 1514 Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act
Oct 5, 2026 · Held at the desk.
S. 3700 FAA SMS Compliance Review Act of 2026
Sep 14, 2026 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 562.
S. 1513 Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
Sep 14, 2026 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 554.
S. 5332 Cooperative Institute Act of 2026
Aug 6, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
S. 4802 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Recapitalization Act
Jul 22, 2026 · Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

Joint Committee on Taxation
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation, Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy, Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on Finance
Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
No subcommittees

Elections Sen. Cantwell has won

Sen. Cantwell has won 1 U.S. House election (1992–1992) and 5 U.S. Senate elections (2000, 2006, 2012, 2018, 2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.1 to 20.9 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won6 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 0.1 points2000, WA Senate

Won an open seat or took one from the other party2 of 6 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Washington’s 1st districtWinners, most recent three: Richard White (R) 1994–1996 → Jay Inslee (D) 1998–2010 → Suzan K. Delbene (D) 2012–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Seat history, Washington Senate (class 1)Winners in regular elections, most recent three: Henry Jackson (D) 1976–1982 → T. Gorton (R) 1988–1994 → Maria Cantwell (D) 2000–2024.

Full election history for this seat →

Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Washington done while Sen. Cantwell served?

2005 to 2024 in Washington: typical household income was up 25% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.0 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 2.3 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

Washington: $79.6K in 2005 → $99.4K in 2024

Washington up 25%U.S. up 9%

Share of people below the poverty line

Washington: 11.9% in 2005 → 9.9% in 2024

Washington down 2.0 pointsU.S. down 1.2 points

Share of workers looking for a job

Washington: 7.2% in 2005 → 4.9% in 2024

Washington down 2.3 pointsU.S. down 2.3 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Washington during Cantwell’s time representing it (2001 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Survey years start at 2005. The yearly estimates for Washington begin in 2005, so 2001 to 2004 are not shown. No 2020 yearly estimate exists.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Everett office2930 Wetmore Ave., Suite 9B, Everett, WA 98201
Phone 425-303-0114 · Fax 425-303-8351 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Richland office825 Jadwin Ave., Suite 206, Richland, WA 99352
Phone 509-946-8106 · Fax 509-946-6937 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Seattle office915 Second Ave., Suite 3206, Seattle, WA 98174
Phone 206-220-6400 · Fax 206-220-6404 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Spokane office920 W. Riverside Ave., Suite 697, Spokane, WA 99201
Phone 509-353-2507 · Fax 509-353-2547 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Tacoma office950 Pacific Ave., Suite 615, Tacoma, WA 98402
Phone 253-572-2281 · Fax 253-572-5879 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Vancouver office1313 Officers Row, Vancouver, WA 98661
Phone 360-696-7838 · Fax 360-696-7844 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)

Evidence

File: legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries C000127-everett, C000127-richland, C000127-seattle, C000127-spokane, C000127-tacoma, C000127-vancouver (6 offices)
Published at: https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date: September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, www.cantwell.senate.gov.

Federal figures for Washington

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s state. The full table, sources and notes are on the state page.

1,526,417people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 1; sheet 'WA - OASDI', row 5
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

134,335people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 2; sheet 'WA - SSI', row 6
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

$4,659,297,977VA direct expenditures in the state, FY2025

Source: VA GDX FY2025, State Direct, September 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File: GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'State Direct Exp', row 51, FIPS 53
Prepared: September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries: 119th Congress districts
Licence: U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

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Read this first. These describe the state, not the member. They say nothing about what this member did or did not do, and they are never used to rate or rank members.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 25 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	25	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	6	See the 6 →
With a committee report listed	5	See the 5 →

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields: cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed: October 25, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

Votes on civilian nominations

237 confirmation roll calls this senator was on the roll for, 119th Congress. A tally of what the record shows, not a score.

Yea 12 (5%)Nay 225 (95%)

Nay · September 30, 2026 · Keith Sonderling Secretary of Labor
Nay · September 23, 2026 · Angela Veronica Colmenero United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
Nay · September 17, 2026 · Kasdin Miller Mitchell United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
Nay · September 15, 2026 · Matthew R. Byrne United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
Nay · August 8, 2026 · Todd Blanche Attorney General
Nay · August 7, 2026 · Michael Kavoukjian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway
Nay · August 5, 2026 · Erica Schwartz Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nay · July 28, 2026 · Walter Clayton Director of National Intelligence

Source: Senate roll call votes, as stored by PORKER ↗

Evidence

What is counted: Senate roll calls in the 119th Congress on the question of confirming a civilian nomination, as recorded on senate.gov. Cloture and procedural votes are not counted.
How it is matched: The vote record names the nomination number; the senator is matched by the Senate member id.
Not voting: Includes absences and any other reason. The record does not say why.

589 of the 617 confirmed civilian nominations show a roll-call vote on their latest-action line; the rest show a voice vote, unanimous consent or another method, with no individual votes. So this is only the roll-call subset. It says nothing about whether any vote was right or wrong.

All confirmed nominations Nominations hub

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded Senate vote Sep 30, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.