Comment by Maria Cantwell

have access to AI training and reskilling [...] This bill gives small businesses a boost with new tools to thrive as we step into this innovative era.
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AI Verified Same quote as opinion 8144 (verified earlier), linked to statement 407. The commerce.senate.gov source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but I confirmed both fragments verbatim via independent web search. It is genuinely Sen. Maria Cantwell's (D-Wash.) statement on the June 2024 introduction of the bipartisan Small Business AI Training Act with Sen. Moran: "It is essential that all American entrepreneurs – especially our small businesses – have access to AI training and reskilling in the 21st-century marketplace. This bill gives small businesses a boost with new tools to thrive as we step into this innovative era." Both fragments match verbatim and the [...] elision is faithful. Author (Maria Cantwell), year (2024), and source (genuine primary press release) are correct. No associated vote exists (null), so no alignment to fix. The 2024 quote is older but relevant to incentivizing AI adoption to enhance workforce talent, so it is kept. A 2026 companion opinion from the Feb 2026 reintroduction (Cantwell, opinion 9849) is already attached to statement 407 with a "for" vote, so no additional recent quote is needed here. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3h ago
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