No refuge; Maria Cantwell.(A tough battle in Washington state)(senator)
Economist (US), The, January, 2006
A gutsy dotcom lady with a tough fight on her hands
JUST before Christmas, one of the Senate's most feared members, Ted Stevens, an 82-year-old Republican from Alaska, slyly inserted into a $453 billion defence bill permission for oil-drilling to go ahead in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The ruse was that Democrats would not want to appear to be soft on defence; but they rallied to remove the ANWR wording from the defence bill in a 48-45 vote.
Mr Stevens's most vigorous foe was a relatively unknown young senator from Washington state. Maria Cantwell, a former high-tech manager, buttonholed colleagues to block drilling, even donning a similar "Incredible Hulk" tie to the one Mr Stevens wears when he goes into battle.
Ms...
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