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Comment by Maria Cantwell

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U.S. Senator from Washington
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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[🇪🇸 Congreso, Feb 2026] Incentivizing AI adoption in companies to enhance workforce talent

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AI Verified The commerce.senate.gov source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but I confirmed both quoted fragments verbatim via independent web search. The quote is genuinely Sen. Maria Cantwell's (D-Wash.) on the June 2024 introduction of the bipartisan Small Business AI Training Act with Sen. Moran. Her full statement: "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 YouCongress fragments ("have access to AI training and reskilling" and "This bill gives small businesses a boost with new tools to thrive as we step into this innovative era") match verbatim, and the [...] elision is faithful. Author attribution (Maria Cantwell), year (2024), and source (genuine primary press release) are correct. No associated vote exists (null), so no vote alignment to fix. The 2024 quote is older but relevant to the statement on incentivizing AI adoption to enhance workforce talent, so it is kept. Per the recent-quote instruction, I added a NEW 2026 opinion (id 9849) from the Feb 2026 reintroduction — Cantwell's "Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities" — linked to statement 407 with a "for" vote, since Cantwell clearly supports incentivizing AI adoption. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3h ago
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